Hamas refuses to disarm until the Palestinian state was established

Hamas reaffirmed that it will not agree to disarmament unless a sovereign Palestinian state was established, in response to one of the main Israeli demands in talks on the ceasefire in Gaza.

The Palestinian Armed Group said that it was responding to the observations that were attributed to the envoy of US President Donald Trump Steve Wittouf that Hamas “expressed his willingness” to put his weapons.

Israel is the disarmament of Hamas is one of the many main conditions for any deal to end the conflict.

The indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas to secure a ceasefire and the release of the hostages stop last week.

In the past few days, Arab governments have urged Hamas to disarm and surrender in Gaza, after a number of Western countries – including France and Canada announced plans to recognize the state of Palestine. The UK said that if Israel had not met certain conditions by September, the United Kingdom said.

Hamas – a banned terrorist group in the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union – said in its statement that it could not resulted in its right to “resistance and its weapons” unless a “independent and fully independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem was created.”

The Israeli defense forces (IDF), Lothanant General Eyal Zamir, warned on Friday that there will be no comfort in the fighting in Gaza if negotiations fail to secure the release of hostages that Hamas maintains quickly.

On Saturday, the Hadina Iviatar David family issued a statement after Hamas issued a video showing him without a shirt and anxiety in a faint tunnel.

They accused Hamas of its hunger as part of a propaganda campaign and appealed to the Israeli government and the United States of doing everything possible to save him.

Witkoff is visiting Israel, while the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces increasing pressure on the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Gaza.

UN agencies have warned of a mass hunger in Gaza, and blamed Israel, which controls all supplies to enter the region. Israel insisted that there are no restrictions on the aid surrender and that “there is no hunger.”

Earlier on Saturday, Witakouf met in Tel Aviv with the families of the Israeli hostages who were still in Gaza.

The shots published on the Internet showed that the Washington negotiator is being received with applause and events to help by the hosts of the hostages when he reached a field that became known for the protests.

Wittakov said that peace efforts should focus on ending the conflict and bringing all hostages to the home, instead of what he called a partial deal.

As part of the Witkeov trip, Netanyahu met on Thursday and On Friday, he searched a wide aid site in southern Gaza.

The latest figures from the United Nations say at least 1373 Palestinians have been killed in food since late May.

The majority was killed by the Israeli army near the distribution of the Israeli Humanitarian Foundation, supported by the United States (GHF), says the United Nations.

Israel has accused Hamas of inciting chaos near the sites and says its forces did not intentionally open to civilians.

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas -led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others took hostage.

Since then, more than 60,000 people have been killed in Gaza, and 169 people have died, including 93 children, due to malnutrition, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the region.