On Sunday evening, Hamas announced the end of the current round of negotiations in Cairo.

The movement said in a statement: “The current round of negotiations in Cairo ended a short while ago, and the Hamas delegation will leave Cairo tonight to consult with the movement’s leadership.

It added: “The movement’s delegation had delivered the movement’s response to the mediator brothers in Egypt and Qatar, where in-depth and serious discussions took place with them.

The movement affirmed its positive and responsible approach, and its keenness and determination to reach an agreement that meets the national demands of our people, ends the aggression completely, achieves withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip, returns the displaced, intensifies relief, begins reconstruction, and completes the prisoner exchange deal.

Reuters quoted an official familiar with the negotiations as saying that Qatar and America are exerting “maximum pressure” on Israel and Hamas to continue the negotiations.

The official added that US Intelligence Director William Burns is heading to the Qatari capital, Doha, for an emergency meeting with the Prime Minister of Qatar. He pointed out that the US Intelligence Director’s visit to Qatar comes in light of “the Gaza talks approaching collapse.”

For his part, Hamas leader Osama Hamdan said that there is progress in the negotiations and the movement’s delegation is leaving Cairo to consult with its leadership.

He added in press statements that Israel tried to focus on the exchange issue and did not respond to the points we raised, noting that the movement discussed in Cairo all ideas with an open mind and we provided clear and specific answers to achieve the interests of our people.

Hamdan stressed that the Karam Abu Salem operation is a message to the occupation that the consequences of any adventure its army may commit will not be as it imagines, stressing that the resistance is capable of continuing longer than the occupation imagines.

In this context, Egyptian sources told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed: “We received Hamas’ response to the proposal and it was conveyed to the Israeli side.

The sources added: “Several alternatives and scenarios were put forward to overcome the main point of contention related to stopping the war, noting that the negotiation process is still in place and the mediators are struggling to reach an agreement.”

Earlier, a Hamas official confirmed that Sunday's meeting in the Egyptian capital regarding the ceasefire in Gaza had ended and that the movement's delegation would leave for Doha.

The official familiar with the negotiations said on condition of anonymity: “The meeting with the Egyptian Minister of Intelligence has ended and the Hamas delegation will leave for Doha to complete the consultations.”

A leading Hamas source told Al Jazeera, “The movement’s delegation left Cairo for Doha for consultations after two days of negotiations.”

Today, Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renewed Israel’s rejection of Hamas’s demands to end the war on the Gaza Strip, in exchange for a prisoner exchange deal. He said that this would allow the movement to remain in power and pose a threat to Israel, stressing that the devastating war that Israel has been waging for 212 days On the besieged sector, it will continue "until all its goals are achieved."

In turn, the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, accused the Israeli Prime Minister of “sabotaging” the efforts made in the negotiations aimed at reaching a truce in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, an official source in the movement who spoke to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper stressed that “there will be no agreement without a complete cessation of the war and the occupation’s withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip.”

Netanyahu's intransigence and adherence to his government's declared positions regarding the conditions for reaching a truce in Gaza in exchange for a prisoner exchange threaten the talks that resumed on Sunday in Cairo. Meanwhile, Cairo News Channel, which is close to Egyptian intelligence, quoted a “senior source” that “there is positive progress in the negotiations,” denying “what is being published about the terms of the potential agreement in the media.”

In a message to his allies in Washington in light of the opposition to the invasion of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, which is crowded with about 1.4 million Palestinians, most of whom are displaced people who fled the bombing and battles; Netanyahu said in a clip broadcast this afternoon, in which he commented on the memory of the Holocaust, “The first lesson of the Holocaust is: If we do not protect ourselves, no one will protect us. And if we have to stand alone, we will.”

While Netanyahu stresses that the planned attack on Rafah is “necessary” under the pretext of “eliminating” the last Hamas brigades, threatening to proceed with it “with or without an agreement.” “We will defend ourselves in every way, we will overcome our enemies and guarantee our security in the Gaza Strip, on the northern border, and everywhere,” he said in the clip in which he touched on Holocaust remembrance.

For his part, a senior Hamas official confirmed that the movement “will under no circumstances agree to an agreement that does not explicitly include a permanent cessation of war.” The official accused Netanyahu of "personally obstructing" efforts to reach an agreement due to what he considered "personal calculations," stressing that "the occupation's intransigence may disrupt the negotiations, and Netanyahu bears full responsibility" for their failure.

The Hamas leader indicated that Netanyahu is threatening to invade Rafah “to put pressure and obstruct reaching an agreement, for personal reasons,” stressing that the invasion of Rafah “will not be a picnic, and the occupation will pay a heavy price for any adventure it may undertake, and it will fail.” While Haniyeh stressed that The demand to end the war and stop the aggression “is a fundamental and logical position, and lays the foundation for a more stable future.”

Haniyeh said, in an official statement issued by the movement, “The world has become hostage to an extremist government (...) and its president wants to invent permanent justifications for continuing the aggression, expanding the circle of conflict, and sabotaging the efforts made through mediators.” He added, "Hamas is still keen to reach a comprehensive, interconnected agreement that ends the aggression, guarantees withdrawal, and achieves a serious prisoner exchange deal."

Haniyeh explained, “In confirmation of the movement’s seriousness and positivity before the current round of negotiations, it conducted a series of contacts with the mediator brothers and with the resistance factions, and held intensive meetings and consultations between inside and outside before sending the delegation to Cairo, and charged it with its positive and flexible positions with the importance of relying on the priority being The movement is to stop the aggression against our people."

Netanyahu announced, in a video clip broadcast today, that Israel “cannot accept” Hamas’ condition of ending the war in order to agree to the truce proposal. He said: “We are not ready to accept a situation in which Hamas brigades emerge from their hideouts and take control of Gaza again, rebuild their military infrastructure, and return and threaten the citizens of Israel,” and denied internal and external accusations that they were obstructing the agreement.

Netanyahu’s statement stated, “I would like to address the reports circulating in the media,” and he considered that these reports “harm the negotiations and cause unnecessary suffering to the family members of the hostages who are living a nightmare.” He continued, “Contrary to these reports, it is Hamas that is preventing Releasing the hostages. We are working in every possible way to free them. This is at the forefront of our goals."

He added, "Throughout the negotiations, Israel showed its willingness to go a long way. A long way that US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, and others described as 'very generous'; but while Israel showed this willingness, Hamas remained committed to its extremist positions, the most important of which is the demand to withdraw all our forces from... Gaza Strip, ending the war, and leaving Hamas intact.”

He added, "The State of Israel cannot accept this. We are not prepared to accept a situation in which Hamas brigades emerge from their hideouts, take control of Gaza again, rebuild their military infrastructure, and return to threatening the citizens of Israel in the surrounding settlements, in the cities of the south, throughout "The country."

He concluded by stressing that, "Therefore, Israel will not agree to Hamas's demands, which mean surrender, and will continue fighting until all its goals are achieved."