Hamas submitted its response to a proposed Gaza ceasefire deal, the Palestinians resistance group said early on Thursday.
In a briefed statement, Hamas said it submitted to mediators its response to end the brutal Israeli war on the besieged enclave.
The Israeli prime minister’s office confirmed it had received Hamas’s response.
Israeli media quoted an Israeli official familiar with the talks as saying that said proposal appeared “at first glance” to be “one Israel can work with”. He added that it was still being studied by the country’s negotiating team.
A diplomat briefed on the talks said the Israeli response was expected in the next two days.
An official from Qatar — which has been one of the key mediators between the Zionist entity and Hamas — and US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff are expected to meet in Italy later on Thursday as mediators work to close the gaps.
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Discussions in recent weeks have been based on a draft framework put forward by the US, Qatar and Egypt that would involve a 60-day truce between the two sides, the release of some of the 50 Israeli captives — less than half of whom are thought to be alive — still held by Hamas in Gaza, and the start of talks on a permanent end to the war.
Key outstanding issue, according to a diplomat briefed on the talks, is Hamas’s insistence that any deal should permanently end the war.
Another long-standing sticking points have been the details of the redeployment of Israeli forces in Gaza once the ceasefire begins, and the ratio for the number of Palestinian prisoners to be released by the Israeli occupation in exchange for captives.
Source: Agencies (edited by Al-Manar English Website)
