“He (Netanyahu) wants to extend the war. And so a ceasefire will stop him from (…) achieving his aims and objectives,” al-Maliki said in an interview on Tuesday after attending a meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers in Brussels.  

“Netanyahu knows very well that if there is going to be a cessation of hostilities (…) Americans and many others would intervene in order to make what is really temporary (…) permanent,” he explained, adding that the Israeli premier is keeping the entire region “hostage to his own political ambitions.”

Indirect truce talks between Israel and Hamas, mediated by Qatar and Egypt, resumed on Tuesday after discussions consistently failed to yield results in recent days.

The stakes are enormously high, with Netanyahu confirming on Monday evening that his long-anticipated military operation in Rafah would go ahead, despite

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