Hamas official Osama Hamdan has warned that if Israel’s military aggression continues in Rafah, there will be no ceasefire deal, Reuters reports.

Hamdan’s comments were made during a press conference in Beirut as a delegation from Hamas, the group that runs the Gaza Strip, arrived in Cairo from Doha to continue ceasefire negotiations, a statement from the group said.

“We affirm that the military operation in Rafah if carried out by Israel, will not be a picnic for the (Israeli) army,” Hamdan said.

“The ball is in Netanyahu’s court,” he added, saying that the latest ceasefire proposal which Hamas agreed to “represents the minimum that responds to the demands of our people and our resistance.”

“The Rafah crossing was and will remain a purely Egyptian-Palestinian crossing,” Hamdan said.