Hamas complains: Israel insists on prisoners

The Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported on Monday that Israel was demanding significant progress on the issue of the exchange of prisoners and the return of civilians and bodies of soldiers held by Hamas in Gaza as a condition for signing a truce agreement. According to Arab sources, Hamas will not agree to a long-term truce, but only to quiet in exchange for quiet - so that any breach of the ceasefire agreement will allow the organization to open fire at Israel.

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