Israel has withdrawn its Mossad negotiators from Qatar, which is brokering talks along with Egypt and the United States to ensure a fresh pause in the Israel-Hamas war.

“Following the impasse in negotiations and at the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mossad chief David Barnea ordered his team in Doha to return to Israel,” said a statement from Netanyahu’s office on Saturday.

The statement accused Hamas of failing to fulfill its part of an agreement to extend the ceasefire in Gaza. The agreement included the release of all women and children held in Gaza according to an agreed list provided to Hamas, the statement said.

Hours later, Hamas said there would be no further prisoner exchanges with Israel until the war on Gaza ended.

“Our official position is that there will be no further prisoner exchange until the end of the war,” the group’s deputy head, Saleh al-Arouri, told Al Jazeera.

“Israeli prisoners are only released by us [Palestinian] Prisoners will be freed and after a ceasefire comes into force.”

“What we have left of the Israeli prisoners are soldiers and civilians serving in the army,” he added.

The Hamas official said the group was willing to “exchange the bodies of dead Israelis in exchange for our own martyrs, but we need time to exhume these bodies.”

“The Israeli occupation insists that we are still holding women and children, but we have already released them all,” he said.

Reporting from Doha, Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem said: “With demands now changing, Israelis are demanding that Hamas release female soldiers.”

“This has a different price for Hamas,” he said, referring to the previous agreement that three Palestinian prisoners were released for every one held in Gaza under the week-long ceasefire that ended early Friday. “The main problem is also that from the beginning Hamas has offered everything for everyone – the Israeli prisoners for all the Palestinian prisoners in Israel.”

“Now we are facing this stalemate as the Israelis are withdrawing. This does not mean that the negotiations are coming to an end. There may be further mediation and new ideas from different parties,” he said.

The temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas collapsed after mediators failed to extend it. As part of the humanitarian pause, 80 Israeli prisoners were released in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners.

Israel and Hamas exchanged blame for the failure of the ceasefire.

Macron in Qatar

Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron said France was “very concerned” about the resumption of violence in Gaza as he landed in Qatar on Saturday to initiate a new ceasefire.​​​

Macron told a news conference at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai that the situation required a redoubling of efforts for a permanent ceasefire and the release of all prisoners.

He also called on Israel to clarify its goals toward Hamas.

“We are at a moment when the Israeli authorities need to define more precisely their goals and their ultimate goal: the complete destruction of Hamas – does anyone think that is possible? If that is the case, the war will last 10 years,” he said.

“There is no lasting security for Israel in the region if its security is achieved at the expense of Palestinian lives and therefore the discontent of public opinion in the region. Let us be clear together,” Macron added.

Asked for a response to those comments, Mark Regev, senior adviser to Netanyahu, told reporters that Israel does not want civilians in the Gaza Strip to be caught in the crossfire if fighting resumes.

“Israel is targeting Hamas, a brutal terrorist organization that has committed horrific violence against innocent civilians. “Israel is making every possible effort to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip,” Regev said.

The Jabalia camp was hit again

But the number of civilian deaths in the enclave continues to rise.

At least 100 Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Strip on Saturday. Rescuers dug through the rubble with their bare hands in search of survivors.

Palestinian authorities said at least 240 people have been killed since bombings resumed early Friday.

Fadel Naim, chief physician at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, said his morgue had received 30 bodies since Saturday morning, including seven children.

“The planes bombed our houses. “Three bombs, three destroyed houses,” 43-year-old Nemr al-Bel told the Agence France-Presse news agency, adding that he counted 10 dead in his family and “13 more were still under the rubble.”

The United Nations estimates that at least 1.7 million people in Gaza – 80 percent of the population – have been displaced since the war began on October 7.

Since then, the Israeli campaign in Gaza has killed more than 15,000 people, most of them civilians. In Israel, the official death toll is around 1,200.