yet to agree to a proposal.

Israeli and Palestinian teams are set to restart indirect Gaza cease-fire talks in Cairo on Sunday, with Hamas saying the Egyptian proposal on the table is unacceptable and threatening to renew fighting, and Israel saying quiet and security will be restored “one way or another.”

Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas representative in Lebanon, said none of the proposals presented to the Palestinians meet their demands.

Offers made to the Palestinian delegation in Cairo do not meet the aspirations of the people, Hamdan, Hamas’s head of foreign affairs, said.

Israel “must accept the conditions of the Palestinian people or face a long war of attrition,” he said in speech before students in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.

During the talks, the Palestinian delegation faced attempts to “break its unity,” he claimed.

Izzat al-Risheq, a Hamas member of the Palestinian delegation, said Egypt’s latest proposals were “unacceptable.”

The Qatar-based official said the Palestinians did not and will not accept the offers made to them.

“The Palestinian delegation has affirmed its rejection of any formula that does not meet the demands of the Palestinian people,” Risheq said.

“Many of the issues offered by the Egyptians are unacceptable.”

He said consultations were continuing among Hamas, Islamic Jihad and PLO factions to reach an agreement over a final position toward the indirect negotiations with Israel.

Another Hamas official, Musa Abu Marzouk, also sounded defiant over the weekend. “Those who were victorious will not comply with the occupation’s conditions,” Abu Marzouk said in a Facebook post.

He claimed that Hamas won the war because it prevented the IDF from entering the Gaza Strip and forced it to withdraw before the ceasefire.

In Jerusalem, meanwhile, government officials took the Hamas statements in stride, with one official saying Israel did not get excited when Hamas spokesmen were saying on Friday that a deal was just around the corner, and was not g