Senior Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum on Wednesday branded the prisoner exchange deal with Israel as a victory for the terrorist organization.
'Strategic victory'
Senior Hamas official Fawzi Barhoum on Wednesday branded the prisoner exchange deal with Israel as a victory for the terrorist organization.
"We broke the enemy's political stance and created a situation that forced their leadership to succumb to our terms," he said. According to him, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military wing, "achieved a strategic victory on October 7 and will remain strong, ready to act if the occupation commits any violation."
Hamas said on Saturday it was seeking amendments to a U.S.-backed proposal for a temporary ceasefire with Israel in Gaza, but President Donald Trump's envoy rejected the group's response as "totally unacceptable."
Israel will not allow a planned meeting in the Palestinian administrative capital of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank, to go ahead, an Israeli official said on Saturday, after media reported that Arab ministers planning to attend had been stopped from coming.
The commander of Kurdish forces that control northeast Syria said on Friday that his group is in direct contact with Turkey and that he would be open to improving ties, including by meeting Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
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