Israel snubs Hamas disarmament offer ahead of election | ABC NEWS

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected Hamas’s offer to lay down weapons, labelling the militant group’s terms ‘unacceptable’.
US President Donald Trump had previously hailed the proposed deal as a breakthrough, but Hamas said it was conditional on the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza.
The US-backed Board of Peace’s high representative for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, is expected to attempt to revive the disarmament talks in a meeting with the Israeli leader and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

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