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Senior official says Hamas ready to stop attacks on Israel 'on mutual basis' - Russia

Published: 12 May 2021 - 07:07 pm | Last Updated: 01 Nov 2021 - 12:15 pm
A Palestinian man carrying clothes walks as he evacuates his shop following Israeli air strikes, amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in Gaza City May 12, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

A Palestinian man carrying clothes walks as he evacuates his shop following Israeli air strikes, amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in Gaza City May 12, 2021. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Reuters

MOSCOW: A Senior Hamas official said the group was ready to halt attacks against Israel on a "mutual basis", the Russian foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

It also quoted the Hamas official as telling a Russian deputy foreign minister that the international community should press Israel to stop using force at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque.