The Hamas movement said on Sunday that US President Joe Biden’s position on a ceasefire in Gaza “reneged on the results of the last round of negotiations” that were held in Cairo.

This came in a statement by the movement in response to the US President’s statements made yesterday, Saturday, during a fundraising gathering, in which he said that it was possible to reach an immediate ceasefire if Hamas released its hostages.

The movement said: “We condemn this position of the American President, as we consider it a retreat from the results of the last round of negotiations, which led to the movement’s approval of the proposal submitted by the mediators in Egypt and Qatar, with the knowledge and information of the American mediator.”

It added: “The movement has shown, in all stages of the negotiations to stop the aggression, the flexibility necessary to move towards achieving an agreement, and this approach culminated in the approval of the latest proposal, before the terrorist (Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin) Netanyahu and his government hastened to overturn this path by commencing his aggression.” On our people in Rafah, Jabalia and Gaza.”

It stated that "the brutal escalation of his massacres in various areas of the Gaza Strip is confirmation of his (Netanyahu's) pursuit of the continuation of the war of extermination in the Gaza Strip, and his indifference to the lives of his prisoners."

It pointed out that "Biden's position reaffirms the American bias with the criminal policy led by the Zionist government, and its continuation of providing political cover and military support for the war of extermination that it is waging against our people."

Last Monday, Hamas announced its acceptance of the mediators’ proposal for a ceasefire and prisoner exchange, but Netanyahu claimed that the movement’s position aims to “to blow up the entry of our forces into Rafah,” and is “far removed from the necessary requirements” of Tel Aviv.

In response to what the movement considered Netanyahu's "evasion" of reaching an agreement to stop the war, it announced, on Friday, the start of consultations with Palestinian faction leaders in order to "reconsider our negotiating strategy."

It said that Israel's rejection of the mediators' proposal, through the amendments it made to it, "brought things back to square one."

Despite mounting international warnings about expanding military operations in Rafah, the Israeli army called, on Saturday morning, for the “immediate” displacement of residents of neighborhoods in the heart of Rafah, thus expanding its operations that began on Monday, east of the city.

Yesterday, Saturday, the Hamas movement warned of the repercussions of the Israeli army’s control of the Rafah crossing and its closure for the fifth day, which “portends a humanitarian catastrophe and an exacerbation of the state of famine throughout the besieged Gaza Strip.”

The devastating war on the Gaza Strip caused tens of thousands of martyrs and wounded, the majority of whom were children and women, and left behind widespread devastation, health and environmental disasters, and humanitarian crises, which necessitated the trial of Tel Aviv before the International Court of Justice on the grounds of “genocide.”