A senior official of the group confirmed the decision while another source claimed Hamas commander Mohammed Deif was “fine” despite the attack.
“Commander Mohammed Deif is well and directly overseeing” the operations of the Hamas military wing, the official told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Israel staged a huge bombing raid on a camp for displaced people in southern Gaza on Saturday that it said was an attempt to kill Deif.
Another senior official from the group, which has been fighting a nine-month conflict with Israel in the Gaza Strip, said Hamas was withdrawing from cease-fire talks because of Israeli “massacres” and the country’s attitude in negotiations.
The Gazan Health Ministry said at least 92 people had been killed, more than half of them women and children, and 300 wounded in a strike on the al-Mawasi camp.
Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s Qatar-based political chief, told international mediators of the “decision to halt negotiations due to the occupation’s (Israel) lack of seriousness, continued policy of procrastination and obstruction, and the ongoing massacres against unarmed civilians,” the official said.
Talks mediated by Qatar and Egypt, with U.S. support, have for months tried but failed to bring a halt to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
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