Dr Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, issued a statement on the latest ceasefire talks urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to sign a ceasefire deal, Al Jazeera reports.

Naim is urging the world to pressure Netanyahu and the Israeli government to sign the deal proposed by US President Joe Biden on May 31 and backed by the UN Security Council on June 11.

He noted that Hamas has agreed to the three-phase proposal, which in the first stage calls for an immediate ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces to the border areas, the unconditional return of displaced people to their homes, the entry of humanitarian aid as well as the release of captives and prisoners.

But Naim said Netanyahu’s response since then has been to carry out more “massacres and killings” in Gaza, including at Al-Mawasi and Al-Tabin school in Gaza City.