Well, someone’s lying. Late yesterday, news outlets around the world reported that Hamas had agreed to a “modified” version of the US proposal for a temporary pause in fighting to exchange hostages for prisoners and allow aid into Gaza. As I warned at the time, “modified” could mean a lot of things, even if the source — notoriously unreliable Al-Arabiya — got the story right at all.
This morning, Hamas denounced Al-Arabiya and claimed it lied about their position, which they refuse to change:
Hamas denied that it had agreed to a new proposal, stating early Wednesday morning that “there is no truth to the news published by Al-Arabiya attributed to a ‘senior Hamas source’ about the movement receiving an international offer for an extended ceasefire in Gaza, the gradual return of the displaced, or a delegation heading to Cairo to discuss the details.”
“We ask that the media ensure…
