The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has added new conditions and demands to a US ceasefire proposal, following the latest round of talks in Rome conducted through mediators.

It said in a statement that the Israeli ceasefire response to the proposal showed that Netanyahu was stalling to avoid reaching an agreement.

“It is clear from what the mediators conveyed that Netanyahu has returned to his strategy of procrastination, evasion, and avoiding reaching an agreement by setting new conditions and demands,” Hamas added.

Hamas accused Netanyahu of retreating from a proposal previously presented by the mediators, which it said had already been based on an “Israeli paper”.