LIVE MIDDLE EAST. Hamas: no deal without definitive end to war in Gaza – IDF: Islamic Jihad commander killed in airstrike in Gaza | Instagram HLN

A senior Hamas official says the Palestinian group will not agree to a ceasefire if it does not explicitly mean a definitive end to the war in Gaza. However, a senior Israeli official said earlier on Saturday that Hamas’s demand for a total end to the war “thwarts the possibility of reaching an agreement.” And the Israeli army says it killed Aiman ​​Zaarab, an Islamic Jihad commander, in an airstrike in southern Gaza. Israel says Zaarab was responsible for the group’s attack on Sufa’s kibbutz and a military post in southern Israel during the Hamas-led attack on October 7. Follow all developments in our live blog.