Hamas says Netanyahu pushing for surrender, not ceasefire: Report

Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest ceasefire conditions, calling them nothing more than a “surrender agreement”.

Abu Zuhri told Al Jazeera Mubasher that Netanyahu’s insistence on disarming Hamas is a non-starter:
“When Netanyahu conditions [the ceasefire] on disarming Hamas, he knows that Hamas links its honour to its arms and that this is an impossible demand,” he said.

He described the disarmament condition as a “wakeful dream” and accused Netanyahu of deliberately sabotaging any chance of a truce: “He is imposing these impossible demands to fail any effort to reach a ceasefire agreement.”

Despite this, Abu Zuhri insisted Hamas remains committed to talks and has shown flexibility, but accused Netanyahu of dragging out the war to escalate destruction in Gaza.