A senior source in the Palestinian Resistance revealed on Sunday that Hamas has warned mediators that negotiations with the Israeli occupation could collapse at any moment.

The senior source told Al Mayadeen that "Hamas has strongly informed mediators that negotiations will not yield any results as long as the massacres and daily atrocities continue."

"[Hamas] is greatly frustrated by the Israeli side's stalling tactics aimed at disrupting the negotiations," the source added.

In a related statement, Izzat al-Rashaq, a member of Hamas' political bureau, denied reports by AFP and other media outlets suggesting that Hamas had decided to halt negotiations in response to the al-Mawasi massacre in western Khan Younis. He asserted that these reports were "completely unfounded."

Al-Rashaq emphasized that "this Nazi escalation against our people by Netanyahu and his Nazi government aims to thwart any agreement to stop the aggression against our people, which has become clear to everyone."

Earlier, AFP quoted an unnamed senior Hamas source as stating that the movement had "decided to halt negotiations with the Israeli occupation to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip due to its lack of seriousness and its perpetration of massacres against unarmed civilians."

The senior source also confirmed that "Mohammed Deif, the commander of the  Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, is in good health," following Israeli media reports about an attempt on his life. The source clarified that "Commander Mohammed Deif is well and directly overseeing the operations of the al-Qassam Brigades and the Resistance."

Al-Mawasi Khan Younis massacre

The Israeli occupation forces committed horrific massacres in Khan Younis, where heavy bombardment of the al-Mawasi area of the city killed dozens of civilians and wounded dozens of others, with reports indicating that the number of those killed is no less than 70. 

The total tally of the aggression is over 100 casualties so far, with reports coming in from Khan Younis saying that over an hour and a half into the aggression, martyrs are still being brought in to the Kuwaiti Hospital, as the Ministry of Health stressed that the whole of the Gaza Strip cannot bear this number of casualties due to the healthcare infrastructure being impaired by constant Israeli bombardment.

Dozens of bodies are still stuck under the rubble as first responders and rescue workers are attempting to reach all those murdered and wounded; most of the latter are critically injured, as reports coming in from the Kuwaiti hospital indicate.

Two more civilians were killed and several others were injured in an air raid on Deir al-Balah. Furthermore, a man and his pregnant wife were killed after their home was bombed in the Qah al-Qurain area, east of Khan Younis.

Another Israeli airstrike targeted a house near the al-Tahrir station at the entrance to the large town of Abasan, also east of Khan Younis.