Hamas Responds to Qatar Proposal on Israeli Hostage Swap

President Biden says Hamas’ response appears ‘a little over the top.’
Hamas Responds to Qatar Proposal on Israeli Hostage Swap
Members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas terrorist group, take part in a gathering in Gaza City on Jan. 31, 2016. Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images
Jackson Richman
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Hamas has responded to a Qatar-proposed hostage–prisoner swap between the terrorist group and Israel.

In a statement, Hamas said that it “dealt with the proposal in a positive spirit, ensuring a comprehensive and complete ceasefire, ending the aggression against our people, ensuring relief, shelter, and reconstruction, lifting the siege on the Gaza Strip, and completing a prisoner exchange.”

Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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