A senior Hamas official said today his group was ready to discuss a new truce despite Israel's killing of a senior political leader that had led to the collapse of an earlier ceasefire.
"I think in political work it is possible to talk about a political step... The leadership of the movement will study any political step presented," Hamas's Lebanon head Usama Hamdan said.
Asked if Hamas would discuss a possible new truce, he said: "We are ready to discuss any political ideas. But we are not ready to take positions before we know all the details."
Islamic militants ditched the shaky seven-week-old truce after Israel killed Ismail Abu Shanab, a US-educated Hamas leader on Thursday, two days after a Jerusalem suicide bombing that killed 20 people. Hamas said it carried out the attack.
Hamas vowed to avenge Abu Shanab's killing.