World must pressure Hamas for 'ceasefire': Netanyahu | News India

Tel Aviv: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday (Thursday) that the world should put pressure on Hamas to accept a ceasefire in Gaza. In response, Hamas said it was ready to accept the peace proposal made earlier by the US without any new conditions.

On the other hand, America's chief negotiator, CIA chief William Burns, had said last Saturday that new proposals for ceasefire would be presented within a few days.

Earlier on Wednesday, Hamas' peace talks team told Qatari and Egyptian mediators in Doha that it was ready for an immediate ceasefire. But it was ready to accept the proposal put forward by the US during the ceasefire without any changes.

In response to this, Netanyahu said that through this Hamas wants to hide the facts and stop the agreement to release the hostages. In this way it wanted to obstruct the ceasefire proposal.

Burns further said that Israel should have accepted the peace proposal presented by the US but Hamas rejected it and instead killed 6 hostages.

In this war that has been going on for 11 months, there is talk of peace on one side, but both the sides are blaming each other.