Hamas leader says long way to go before ceasefire deal agreed with Israel
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Hamas official tells Al Jazeera that the ‘gap is still wide and we have to discuss a lot of points with the mediators’.

Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari has told the World Zionist Organization (WZO) Emergency Conference that Israel is “fighting against Hamas, not against the people of Gaza” despite Israeli attacks on the besieged enclave killing almost 30,000 people.

“Our aim in this war, our main mission, is to rescue our hostages but also make sure that the citizens of Gaza are free from Hamas,” he added.

“We are dismantling the military framework of Hamas from the north to the south. We already dismantled 18 battalions out of 24 and we are finishing the others, the last four are in Rafah,” Hagari claimed.

He also said that the Israeli army “cannot conduct an operation with 1.4 million people in Rafah”. There will be a “movement of people to a safer zone”.