Hamas said on Tuesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is returning to his strategy of procrastination and evasion of a prisoner exchange agreement and a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, by setting "new conditions."

The movement added in a statement, commenting on the Rome talks to reach an agreement: "Through what the mediators reported about the Rome meeting, Netanyahu has once again returned to the strategy of procrastination, delay and evasion from reaching an agreement by setting new conditions and demands."

The movement explained that the new demands "retract what the mediators conveyed as an Israeli paper, which was part of (US President Joe) Biden's project and later a UN Security Council resolution."

On Sunday, Mossad chief David Barnea arrived in the Italian capital, Rome, to participate in a four-way meeting to discuss a prisoner exchange with Hamas, with the participation of CIA Director William Burns, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, and Egyptian Intelligence Chief Abbas Kamel.

Netanyahu announced on Sunday in a statement that Barnea had handed over the Israeli paper to the mediators, noting that "in the coming days, negotiations will continue on the main issues."

The statement did not reveal the new conditions included in the Israeli response, but Channel 12 Israel said: "The new Israeli clarification document clarifies the three principles that Netanyahu recently added."

The channel added: "The clarifications relate to the following issues: a mechanism for examining fighters moving from the southern Gaza Strip to the northern one, the issue of the IDF forces remaining along the Philadelphi Road (the Gaza-Egypt border), and receiving a list of living abductees who will be released in advance."

She continued: "In fact, the new proposal was updated after great pressure from the Americans, who worked to produce an explanatory document that would enable progress in the negotiations, and in the coming days, we will understand how Hamas will deal with these changes."

Tel Aviv is holding no less than 9,500 Palestinians in its prisons, and estimates that there are 115 Israeli prisoners in Gaza, while Hamas announced the killing of more than 70 prisoners in random raids launched by Israel.

At the end of last May, US President Joe Biden proposed an agreement that Israel had presented to him, which included a ceasefire, prisoner exchange, and reconstruction of Gaza, in addition to a prisoner exchange.

Palestinian factions say that Israel and its ally the United States do not want to end the war on Gaza now, and are trying to buy time through negotiations, hoping that Netanyahu will achieve gains in the fighting.