Aljazeera Source Marc Owen Jones, an associate professor of Middle East studies and digital humanities at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, says there appears to be a “blame game” being played between Israel and Hamas regarding the ceasefire talks. Jones told Al Jazeera that there have been reports that Netanyahu has deliberately sabotaged recent negotiations as well as reports in the Israeli media that Hamas’s announcement that the group had accepted a deal is a “ruse designed to make Israel look like they had sabotaged the deal”. He said it’s very clear that Netanyahu, as he has been since the start of the war, is not interested in a ceasefire. An end to the war would mean “accountability, not just domestically for his various criminal accusations, but now potentially by the International Criminal Court”, Jones said.
