Hamas says there will be no changes in the conditions the movement has set for reaching a long-term truce agreement with Israel.
Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior Hamas official said in Damascus on Wednesday that Israel must end aggression, lift the Gaza siege and open all crossings into the coastal territory before clinching any truce deal with the Islamic movement.
According to the Hamas official, a Palestinian delegation will be sent to Cairo to discuss a ceasefire agreement proposed by Egypt to replace a temporary truce, which ended the recent war in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas and Israel fought a nearly three-week war in January, which killed more than 1,300 people, mostly civilians in the populated Gaza Strip.
While Israel has been insisting on measures to stop what it calls arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip, Hamas says no long-term truce can be reached unless Israel lifted its crippling blockade on the coastal sliver.
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