Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told Anadolu Agency: “During the talks in the Egyptian capital, we reached acceptable approaches from the parties participating in the talks regarding the thorny issues of the ceasefire agreement.”
Qassem did not reveal the nature of these "approaches".
On October 8, 2023, Israel, with American support, began a two-year war of genocide in Gaza, leaving approximately 73,000 martyrs and more than 173,000 wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women, and causing destruction to 90% of the infrastructure.
Despite the ceasefire agreement announced on October 10, 2025, Israel continues its genocide through daily bombings that have killed 978 Palestinians and injured 3,097, most of them children and women.
Qassem added that Hamas and the rest of the Palestinian factions dealt "flexibly and positively with the approaches presented by the mediators in Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, out of a national responsibility to stop the genocide in Gaza."
He added that "the ball is now in the court of the Israeli occupation and the Peace Council, represented by its Executive Director, Nikolay Mladenov, in order to launch a real and complete implementation of (US President Trump's) vision for peace in the sector."
He added: "It depends on the ability of the mediators, the guarantor states, and the Peace Council to compel the occupation to stop the violations, killings, and siege, and to accept these approaches in order to enter the second phase of the agreement."
While Hamas adhered to the requirements of the first phase of the agreement, Israel reneged on its commitments and continued its violations of the agreement, while talks to move to its second phase are faltering.
Qassem accused Israel of seeking to "destroy the ceasefire agreement through its continuous violations, daily killings, bombings and shelling, and the constant westward shifting of the yellow line, in addition to restricting the entry of aid into the sector."
This line separates the areas where the Israeli army is deployed to the east from the areas where Palestinians are allowed to move to the west, and through it Israel occupies about 60% of the area of the Gaza Strip.
Israel is also preventing the entry of agreed-upon quantities of food, medicine, medical supplies, shelter materials and prefabricated homes into Gaza, where some 2.4 million Palestinians, including 1.5 million displaced people, are living in catastrophic conditions.
Qassem said that what Israel is doing "places the mediators, the guarantor states, and the American administration before a political, moral, and legal responsibility to pressure the occupation to stop the violations and abide by what was agreed upon."
He added: "Nearly a thousand martyrs have died since the ceasefire in Gaza, which means that the war of extermination is continuing, and that we are living through an open massacre in front of the world."
In 1948, Israel was established on lands occupied by armed Zionist gangs who committed massacres and displaced at least 750,000 Palestinians. Tel Aviv refuses to withdraw and allow the establishment of the Palestinian state stipulated in UN resolutions.
