The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has dismissed U.S. claims that it is obstructing ceasefire talks.

“It is a confirmation of the American administration’s blatant bias towards Zionist fascism and a falsification of reality that confirms that whoever obstructs the course of negotiations for [Netanyahu’s] personal political calculations,” Hamas said in a statement.

“The Hamas movement’s negotiating behavior was based on the interest of our Palestinian people and the priority of stopping the brutal aggression against them, the withdrawal of the occupation, the return of the displaced, and ending their human suffering created by the American-funded killing machine,” Hamas said.

The resistance group added that if the U.S. was sincere in wanting to stop the war in Gaza, it had to pressure Israel “and stop the American political and military cover for the crimes of genocide and starvation practiced by the Nazi occupation against defenseless civilians in the Gaza Strip.”