A general strike is underway in the Israeli-occupied lands as protesters vent their anger over prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet’s failure to reach a ceasefire agreement that would release the Israeli captives still held in Gaza.

An official from Palestinian resistance movement Islamic Jihad has slammed the United States as the major obstacle to the ceasefire talks as Hamas has not changed the stance agreed among the Palestinian resistance groups.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced as ‘misleading’ the US President Joe Biden’s efforts to pretend Hamas backtracking from the ceasefire talks.

Iran’s interim Foreign Minister, Ali Bagheri Kani, has stressed that the United States cannot be an impartial mediator in the ceasefire talks between Hamas resistance movement and Israel considering Washington’s all-out support for the regime in its genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Iran has deplored the ‘dishonesty and deceit’ of the Israeli regime and the United States during the Gaza ceasefire talks held in Doha.

A senior Hamas official says Israeli regime in using the prolonging ceasefire talks to launch full-scale invasion against Rafah.

He went on to hold Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government fully responsible for the consequences of an Israeli invasion of Rafah.

A senior official from the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas said Israeli regime is trying to release captives without linking that to an end to aggressions in Gaza stressing that the movement will not accept a ceasefire deal without an end to Israeli atrocities.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas is set to send a delegation to the Egyptian capital Cairo to resume ceasefire talks in the latest effort to halt the deadly Israeli war that is entering its eighth month now.

Hamdan said Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was placing obstacles hindering both parties from reaching an agreement, and that he is “not interested” in releasing Israeli hostages.

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