Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a proposal by Hamas to end the war and release captives in exchange for withdrawing Israeli forces, releasing prisoners and accepting the armed group’s governance of Gaza.
Netanyahu says that accepting Hamas’s conditions would mean leaving the armed group intact and that Israel’s soldiers had fallen in vain.
Netanyahu earlier repeated his opposition to an independent Palestinian state, insisting he would not compromise on full Israeli security control over the entire area in the west of Jordan.