Netanyahu stops ceasefire talks in Gaza in the middle of the hardened requests from Hamas

The cease-fire negotiations between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization succeeded on a setback on Thursday, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled the Israel negotiation delegation of Doha following what the officials described as a hardening of Hamas’ requests.

“In the light of the answer that delivered this morning, it was decided to recall the negotiation team for new consultations in Israel,” said the Prime Minister’s office in a statement. “We appreciate the efforts of the mediators, Qatar and Egypt, and the efforts of the envoy Steve Witkoff to make a breakthrough in the talks.”

According to Israeli media reports, the terrorist group now demands the release of 200 Palestinians serving perpetuity sentences for the murder of Israelis, and 2000 other Palestinians detained in Gaza after October 7. This request considerably exceeds the release of 125 media prisoners and 1,200 other detainees.

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The Palestinians carry assistance supplies from the Gaza humanitarian foundation supported by the United States, Khan Younis, in the Southern Gaza Strip, on May 29, 2025. (Reuters / Hatem Khaled)

“The return of the delegation is not a collapse or a crisis, but the shortcomings are important and present in all the main problems,” a senior Israeli official told Channel 12.

A joint declaration from 25 countries condemning the conduct of Israel to Gaza may have complicated already fragile ceasefire negotiations, suggested Israeli officials. In response to the conviction, the Israeli Foreign Affairs has published a strongly written statement, warning: “At these sensitive moments in the current negotiations, it is preferable to avoid declarations of this type.

“Israel rejects the joint declaration published by a group of countries because it is disconnected from reality and sends the bad message to Hamas.” The ministry added that “all declarations and complaints should be directed against the sole part responsible for the absence of an agreement for the release of hostages and a cease-fire: Hamas, which began this war and prolongs it”.

Hosting families have deepened the breakdown of negotiations. “Families look with concern while the reports emerge regarding the return of the negotiation team,” said the hostage forum and families who have disappeared in a press release. “Each passing day endangers the chances of hostage recovery and the ability to locate the dead. Another missed opportunity to bring everyone home would be unforgivable – a moral, security and diplomatic failure.”

Negotiations, which have timed for weeks, are part of a draft contract supported by the United States involving a 60-day cease-fire in exchange for the publication of around fifty remaining Israeli hostages, a progressive release of Palestinian prisoners and a widely extended humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Hamas terrorists take a position before a release of hostages in Deir al-Balah, Central Gaza Strip, on February 8, 2025. (AP)

Hamas also demands that Israeli troops withdraw to positions held before March 2, when the last cease-fire collapsed and that Rafah’s crossing between Gaza and Egypt reopens in both directions. The group is also opposed to the Gaza humanitarian fund supported by the newly established United States, demanding that the aid distribution is returning to the previous unopensed mechanism.

Parents and supporters of Israeli hostages have kept captive in the Gaza Strip since the October 7 attack in southern Israel, have their portraits at Hotages Square in Tel Aviv on May 28, 2025, to mark 600 days of their captivity and demand their release and the end of the war. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP via Getty Images)

An official in Hamas told Reuters that the group insisted on the return to a protocol of January 19 for the entry of the aid, and that the cease-fire negotiations must include a clause preventing Israel from resuming military operations after the 60-day truce-even if a wider agreement is not concluded.

At the center of the impasse is the growing humanitarian crisis. The UN and international aid groups warn that hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza face severe food insecurity. It is claimed that northern civilians have been forced to survive animal food and food plants, while chaotic aid distributions in the South have become fatal several times.

Lieutenant-general Eyal Zamir, the chief of the staff, runs a field visit to the Rafah region of the Gaza Strip. (IDF)

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In response to assembly pressure, Israel visibly increases the pace of help deliveries. On Thursday, COGAT (Coordinator of government activities in the territories) reported that 70 aid trucks had been transferred to Gaza on Wednesday via the crossings of Zikim and Kerem Shalom. Expeditions, mainly food, were delivered under the coordination of FDIs with the UN and humanitarian organizations.

COGAT said that more than 150 trucks had been collected inside Gaza, but warned that more than 800 trucks are not collected in the passages due to logistics breakdowns on the Palestinian side.

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) on x That he offered Wednesday to deliver the tons of UN aid for free to Gaza. John Acree, acting director of GHF, said: “We have seen UN aid and other organizations surrounded near the borders but not delivered.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu meets Steve Witkoff, special envoy to the Middle East. (Prime Minister’s media advisor)

Israeli journalist Nadav Eyal reported Thursday That the senior defense officials say that they were invited by the political level to “considerably accelerate the entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza” and to “be less concerned with precautions or plans to keep it out of the hands of Hamas”.

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While the talks are resumed of activity and military activity, Israeli officials warn that the window for an agreement could conclude. “There are still important shortcomings,” a source told Channel 12. “Negotiations are not over – but time is exhausted.”