Her senior executive Hamas announced today to Agence France-Presse the decision of the Palestinian Islamist movement to stop the indirect negotiations that were being held for the conclusion of a cease-fire agreement in the Gaza Strip, denouncing its “lack of seriousness” and “massacres” Israel.

“The head of the Hamas political office, Ismail Haniya, informed during a series of talks the mediators and regional actors about the decision of Hamas to stop the negotiations, due to the lack of seriousness of the occupation (Israel’s s.v.) and massacres with unarmed civilians as victims,” ​​he stressed.

The Israeli army launched airstrikes yesterday to kill two senior Hamas figures, including the head of its military wing, while Hamas claimed more than 100 civilians were massacred in two displaced persons camps in the Gaza Strip.

The two leaders are Mohammed Deif and Rafa Salama, respectively the head of Hamas’s military arm and its head in Khan Younis, who are presented by the Israeli military as the “masterminds of the October 7 massacre”, the unprecedented raid on the southern Israel that triggered the war in Gaza, which is in its tenth month, or its 282nd day.

“There is no absolute certainty that neither one nor the other was eliminated,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday. “In recent weeks, we have identified clear weaknesses in Hamas,” he added and assured that yesterday’s operations would “contribute” to them and “in any case, we will eliminate the entire leadership of Hamas.”

According to Hamas, the Israeli air force bombed the Magazi displaced persons camp, an area designated by Israel itself as a “humanitarian zone”, killing 90 people, half of whom were “women and children “, and to injure another 300. Earlier, yesterday, he spoke of 71 dead.

For its part, the Israeli armed forces reported that a “fenced” area “administered by Hamas” was bombed and where “according to our information, only Hamas terrorists and no civilians were present”, assuring that “most of the victims were terrorists ».

The Palestinian Islamist movement countered that these announcements have the sole purpose of concealing “the extent of the gruesome slaughter”.

Mohammed Deif is the one who announced in a Hamas audio message on the morning of October 7 the operation “Al Aqsa Flood” and, before yesterday’s bombing, he survived despite six known attempts by Israel to kill him.

“Eliminating the leaders of Hamas will allow us to move towards achieving all our goals,” Mr Netanyahu said yesterday. “This will send a deterrent message to all of Iran’s intermediaries and to Iran itself.”

In the al-Maghazi camp, near Khan Younis, the Israeli bombardment, one of the deadliest since the start of the war, left behind a huge crater, debris, flattened tents and displaced people searching for victims.

Mahmoud Sahin tearfully told AFP that there were “mutilated people everywhere, it was an unimaginable scene”.

According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), there are approximately 1.5 million people in the Al Maghazi camp sector, in Khan Younis and further south towards Rafah.

“The statement that Gazans can move to ‘safe’ or ‘humanitarian’ zones is false,” UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said via X. In Gaza “no location is safe.” No one is safe,” he insisted.

Yesterday’s second bombing targeted a mosque in the al-Sati refugee camp, in the western part of Gaza City, and the Palestinian civil defense said at least 20 people were killed.

The war broke out when Hamas launched an unprecedented raid on southern Israel on October 7, killing 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli data. Of the 251 people abducted, 116 are believed to remain in the hands of Hamas in Gaza, but 42 of them are believed to be dead, according to the Israeli military.

In retaliation, Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, and its ongoing wide-scale operations have killed at least 38,443 people, mostly civilians, according to ministry figures. Health of the Palestinian Islamist movement.

The Israeli army also continues to operate in Gaza City, where on Thursday and Friday more than a hundred bodies were found in areas where fierce fighting took place, according to civil protection.

The humanitarian situation remains dire in the besieged and devastated enclave, with 14,000 Gazans forced to share 25 toilets in Deir al-Bala, UNRWA said yesterday.

At the diplomatic level, efforts to broker a ceasefire brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the US continue.

However, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya accused Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu of trying to prevent any deal, attributing it to the “heinous massacres committed by the occupation army”.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed “shock” and “sadness” at the civilian deaths that underscore that “no place is safe in Gaza,” calling for international humanitarian standards to be respected.

For his part, Giuseppe Borrell, the EU’s High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, called for an independent international investigation into yesterday’s bombings that may have constituted violations of international law, stressing through X that “the purposes are not justify all means”.

Just the day before Friday, US President Joe Biden assured from Washington that the “framework” for concluding an agreement “has been accepted” by both Israel and Hamas. “There are still gaps that need to be bridged”, however the “trend is positive”, added the Democrat.

Last night, thousands of Israelis demonstrated, once again, in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, near Prime Minister Netanyahu’s offices, to demand a deal to return the hostages. Many of them expressed concern that the bombings targeting senior Hamas figures would hinder it, with some accusing the prime minister of “sabotaging” the negotiations.

Elsewhere, on the Israel-Lebanon border, Hezbollah said it had fired rockets into northern Israel, where four soldiers were wounded, according to the military, after Israeli shelling killed two civilians in southern Lebanon.

And in Syria, Israeli shelling in and around Damascus at midnight killed one soldier and wounded three others.