{"id":7097,"date":"2025-05-12T21:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T21:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7097"},"modified":"2025-05-12T21:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T21:05:25","slug":"hamas-says-ready-to-immediately-engage-in-talks-for-lasting-gaza-ceasefire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7097","title":{"rendered":"Hamas says ready to immediately engage in talks for lasting Gaza\u00a0ceasefire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Palestinian resistance group Hamas said Monday that it is ready to immediately engage in negotiations to reach a lasting ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, released Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander on Monday evening after talks with the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHamas is ready to immediately begin negotiations to reach a comprehensive agreement for a sustainable ceasefire, the withdrawal of the occupation army, the end of the siege, the exchange of prisoners, and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander was the last known living US hostage held in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Alexander&#8217;s release came thanks to Israel&#8217;s military pressure in Gaza and political pressure by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli leader said he spoke with Trump on Monday and the US president expressed commitment to Israel, according to a statement by Netanyahu&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu has said there will be no ceasefire and that plans to intensify military action in Gaza continued.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Palestinian resistance group Hamas said Monday that it is ready to immediately engage in negotiations to reach a lasting ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The group\u2019s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, released Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander on Monday evening after talks with the Trump administration. \u201cHamas is ready to immediately begin negotiations to reach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}