Osama Hamdan, a Hamas senior official, tells Al Jazeera that Israel has been undermining every effort to extend the truce.

“Every day in the past seven days of the temporary ceasefire, Israel was acting in a way to undermine the whole process,” Hamdan said.

“Yesterday night we were talking about extending the temporary ceasefire, we were very clear about some options which were suggested by the mediators – we accepted three suggestions, but all those were rejected by the Israelis.

“We were and we still are positive about all the efforts, but the Israelis are refusing them,” he said.