Israel Rejected Ceasefire Proposal to Free Civilian Hostages, Speaker Says

Of, uh, of the war when we were, you know, coming very directly to the Israeli officials and telling them that we got an agreement that releasing all the civilian hostages just, you know, give a window of a ceasefire to get everyone out.

And they even rejected to entertain the idea, and that's showing what's their interest. Is it saving their people or just go and destroy as- Well, there have been multiple reports, as you know, started by Haaretz, and The New York Times have now verified it, that Benjamin Netanyahu took a call from

the leader of the UAE warning about 10 days before October the 7th that Hamas were planning a massive attack on Israel.

Is that your understanding that that report is true, that that call happened?

Well, look, there, there has been many indications that, uh, an escalation is potentially hap- is going to happen given the circumstances that we were witnessing in the past few months, uh, to October s- leading to October 7.

But what I can confirm that is true is at least, uh, we have reached out to the Israeli official in day one after a, a very tough meeting with Hamas leaders to get everyone out, to get all the civilian out, and our message was very clear.

Uh, they are asking for a window of ceasefire to get the civilians out, and then we, we can discuss about the rest, and we can help in negotiating the rest. And basically, they were not interested to engage in the idea. They said