Hamas’s chief negotiator said Thursday the group is prepared to enter a new round of talks aimed at securing a permanent cease-fire with Israel in the Gaza Strip.
"We reaffirm that we are ready for a new, serious round of negotiations aimed at reaching a permanent cease-fire agreement," lead Hamas negotiator Khalil al-Hayya said in a televised speech marking the start of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festivities.
Hayya added that contacts with mediators in the war were under way, as he revisited point by point Hamas's main current objectives.
U.N. conference to push for two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The United Nations chief on Thursday urged world leaders and officials attending an upcoming U.N. conference on ending the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict "to keep the two-state solution alive."
