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An Israeli delegation departed negotiation talks in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday after Hamas yet again rejected terms for a hostage release deal.

While Israel says some of its delegates remain in Doha, the majority of its officials have left the negotiations. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office condemned Hamas in a Tuesday statement, saying the terrorist organization was making unrealistic demands.

«Hamas’s position clearly proves that Hamas is not interested in continuing negotiations for a deal and is an unfortunate testimony to the damage of the Security Council’s decision,» Netanyahu’s office said.

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«Hamas once again rejected any American compromise proposal and reiterated its extreme demands: an immediate end to the war, a complete withdrawal of the IDF from the Gaza Strip, and remaining in power so that it could repeat the massacre of October 7 again and again, as it had promised to do,» the statement continued.

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An Israeli delegation departed negotiation talks in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday after Hamas yet again rejected terms for a hostage release deal. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, Pool, File)

«Israel will not submit to the delusional demands of Hamas. It will continue to act to achieve all the goals of the war: to release all the abductees, to destroy the military and governmental capabilities of Hamas, and to ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel,» it added.

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The development comes as Israel appears poised to launch an invasion of Rafah, a Gaza city bordering Egypt that serves both as a refugee camp and Hamas’ final foothold in the region.

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The development comes as Israel appears poised to launch an invasion of Rafah, which serves both as a refugee camp and Hamas’ final foothold in the region. (Reuters/Maxar Technologies)

The plans have been a point of major friction between Netanyahu and President Biden’s administration, which has repeatedly warned that an invasion would be a «huge mistake.»

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The Biden administration chose not to block a U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza on Monday. That led Netanyahu to also cancel an Israeli delegation’s trip to Washington. The visit was intended to determine whether a compromise could be reached regarding Rafah.

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The Biden administration chose not to block a U.N. resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza on Monday, leading Netanyahu to also cancel an Israeli delegation’s trip to Washington. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

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Netanyahu has vowed that the offensive will take place with or without U.S. support, arguing it is necessary for the goal of fully dismantling Hamas.

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Trump and ‘no one else’ can end the Ukraine-Russia war, US ally says

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President Donald Trump, who echoes former President Ronald Reagan’s «peace through strength» mantra, has the credibility to end the nearly three-year war between Ukraine and Russia, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó told Fox News Digital.

«If he doesn’t have the ability, no one has the ability,» Szijjártó said.

In the nearly three years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, world leaders from several countries have tried to step in and end the conflict. Szijjártó believes there’s a reason that European leaders and the Biden administration «totally failed» to end the war. The foreign minister believes world leaders were fighting for an «impossible» victory, saying it was «obvious from the very beginning» that Ukraine could not win.

«If you look at the current situation, regardless of the huge money, regardless of the huge weapon deliveries which have been poured into Ukraine, the battlefield reality shows the advance of the Russians,» Szijjártó said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Sputnik/Alexei Danichev/Pool via Reuters/Leah Millis/Alina Smutko)

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Szijjártó believes that Trump has credibility with both the Ukrainians and Russians, and that while other leaders have had this, they lost it by taking «a very clear position in favor of Ukraine against Russia.»

The Hungarian official also accused European leaders of treating the war between Russia and Ukraine as their own, adding to the list of possible reasons why they have failed to bring an end to it.

«So, if you really think that Ukraine should negotiate in its best shape, then we have to stop the war today because tomorrow Ukraine will be in a weaker position than today,» Szijjártó told Fox News Digital. He went on to accuse his European colleagues of not respecting the «reality» of the current state of the war.

This week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv would accept either a fast-track to NATO or nuclear weapons. However, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s envoy for Russia and Ukraine, doubts that the Ukrainian leader’s demands will be met.

«The chance of them getting their nuclear weapons back is somewhere between slim and none,» Kellogg told Fox News Digital.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy talks to President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met at Trump Tower in New York City on Sept. 27, 2024. (Reuters/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo)

ZELENSKYY WANTS NUKES OR NATO; TRUMP SPECIAL ENVOY KELLOGG SAYS ‘SLIM AND NONE’ CHANCE

Late last month, Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to make a deal with Zelenskyy to end the war. However, this has yet to happen. The president also said that Zelenskyy was ready to negotiate a deal to end the war.

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«The only person that Putin will really want to talk to – because he’s kind of denigrated other leaders that are out there – is President Trump, and President Trump’s the only one who can bring this to a conclusion,» Kellogg told «Fox & Friends Weekend» on Sunday. He described Trump and Putin’s relationship as «very transactional.»

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump (Contributor/Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

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In September 2024, before he won re-election, Trump met with Zelenskyy in New York City at Trump Tower.

After meeting with Zelenskyy, Trump told Fox News, «We both want to see this end and we both want a fair deal made. And it’s got to be fair.»

Fox News Digital’s Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.


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