Hamas: “Ready for a ceasefire, Trump puts pressure on Israel”

The election of Donald Trump, which made red Republicans triumph in the United States, could help speed up negotiations between Israel and Hamas. The Palestinian Islamic political organization is “ready for a ceasefire” in Gaza. Bassem Naim, a member of the group’s political bureau, told AFP, urging the US president-elect to “pressure” Israel to “end the aggression”. “Hamas is ready to achieve a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire proposal is presented and provided it is respected by Israel. We call on the US administration and Trump to pressure the Israeli government to end the aggression,” said Naim.

However, the conflict shows no signs of stopping. Lebanese Hezbollah militias, for example, claimed to have bombed, for the fourth time, a group of Israeli army forces on the eastern outskirts of the city of Taloussa, in southern Lebanon, adding that they had attacked, with a drone attack, a group of Israeli forces in the Yaroun settlement in northern Israel. The Shiite group also reported having targeted, for the second time, with missiles, a group of Israeli army forces at the Amra Gate, south of the city of Khiam, in southern Lebanon. It also said it attacked a group of Israeli forces with a missile west of the southern city of Al-Jabayn, killing and wounding them. The attack followed an Israeli attack on Batouleh in southern Lebanon. According to the “Al Jazeera” TV correspondent, Israeli planes carried out attacks near the city of Batouleh, in southern Lebanon.