The official had said Saturday that “there is an intention to renew these talks this week” after negotiations involving US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators stalled in early May.
A member of Hamas’s political leadership, Izzat al-Rishq, said Sunday that so far, “we have not received anything from the mediators”.
He insisted on the Palestinian group’s long-standing demand for a permanent cessation of hostilities as “the foundation and the starting point for anything”.
Rishq accused Netanyahu of “trying to buy more time to continue the aggression”.
Shortly afterwards, Hamas’s armed wing said it had targeted Tel Aviv “with a large rocket barrage in response to the Zionist (Israeli) massacres against civilians”.
Israel’s army said at least eight rockets were fired from Gaza’s far-southern city of Rafah and that “a number of the projectiles were intercepted”, with no reports of casualties.
