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[Xinhua News Agency Micro Special] Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior official of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said on the 17th that US President Joseph Biden's statement that a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip was "close to being reached" was an "illusion."

"We are facing not an agreement or real negotiations, but an order imposed by the United States," Zuhri said in a statement to AFP.

Negotiations on a ceasefire and the release of detainees in the Gaza Strip resumed on the 15th in Doha, the capital of Qatar, and were suspended on the 16th. They will resume in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, next week. Hamas did not send a representative to the meeting, and the mediator "delivered the message". On the 16th, the mediators, the United States, Qatar and Egypt, issued a joint statement saying that the United States submitted a new plan based on the main points of the previous plan, which would help bridge the differences between Israel and Hamas and promote the rapid implementation of relevant consensus after the ceasefire agreement was reached.

In an interview with the media on the 16th, US President Biden said that compared with before this round of ceasefire negotiations, Israel and Hamas are "closer" to reaching a ceasefire agreement.

While the ceasefire negotiations were underway, Israel did not stop its military operations in the Gaza Strip. On the 17th, the Israeli army bombed the Zaweida area in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens.

Data released by the Gaza Strip Health Department on the 17th showed that since the outbreak of the new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict in October last year, Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip have caused the deaths of 40,074 Palestinians and injured more than 92,000. (End) (Zheng Hao Ning)