ISRAEL must withdraw all its troops from Gaza, a senior Hamas leader said today, adding that changes to a US ceasefire deal requested by the Palestinian group were “not significant.”

This came after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that mediators from Qatar, Egypt and the United States would keep trying to finalise an elusive agreement to end the Gaza conflict following Hamas’s proposed changes to the plan, some of which he said were “workable” and some not.

He blamed Hamas for the absence of a deal so far, accusing it of changing its demands.