The Qatari Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday that Doha and Cairo have received a positive response from Hamas to a ceasefire proposal that aims at “reaching a comprehensive agreement to end the war”.
Speaking at a press conference in Doha, ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said that the proposal included a 60-day provisional ceasefire during which a number of captives and prisoners would be swapped, Israeli forces in Gaza would be repositioned, and aid to Gaza would be increased.
The spokesperson said that the proposal was “almost identical” to US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff’s previous proposal, but that the Israeli regime had yet to send its response.
Al-Ansari said that there was no timeframe for when Tel Aviv would answer.
“Almost 98 percent of what has been agreed to by the Israelis was contained in this recent proposal,” Al-Ansari said.
Continuing his remarks to the press, Al-Ansari was cautious about ceasefire prospects.
“I’m not in the habit of being overly optimistic when I don’t have clear facts in front of me,” he said.
“What I can tell you is that we have a positive response from Hamas. That positive response, according to what we know, is almost all that was agreed by Israel in previous iterations of these talks.”
But “we are yet to receive a response from the Israel side,” he continued, “so we cannot make any claims that a breakthrough has been made.”
“But we do believe it is a positive point when we have a positive response from Hamas.”
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Source: Agencies
