Hamas responded to the US ceasefire proposal, saying that it was ready to release 10 living Israeli hostages and 18 dead hostages instead of several Palestinian inmates, but has sought some amendments to the project.
The group repeated the demands of a permanent contract, ensuring that the entire Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the continuous flow of human aid. None of these are in the contract on the table.
This is not a clear refusal or a clear acceptance of the US rules, Washington said that Israel had agreed.
US President Donald Trump’s Middle East Special Ambassador Steve Witcoff proposed to the US Draft, Hamas said.
In a statement, Whitcoff said: “I have received the Hamas response to the United States’s proposal. This is completely unacceptable and is lagging behind us. Hamas should accept the framework we have put forward as a basis for proximity to the proximity. We can start immediately in the week.
“The only way to close the 60 -day ceasefire agreement in the next few days is the only way to close.”
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “Although Israel has agreed to the outline of the updated Whitcoff for the release of our hostages, Hamas is following its refusal.”
Hamas, a banned terrorist group in the US, the UK and the EU, said it was demanding the “permanent ceasefire” and “full withdrawal” of Israeli forces from the Gaza bar.
The group continued to help the Palestinians who live in the Enclave, forced the flow of help, and said it would release 10 living hostages and the corpses of 18 dead hostages instead of the “agreed number” of the Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
But Hamas has been in the most complex and difficult position since the war started.
Under extreme pressure from 2.2 million people living in the worst conditions of their history and intermediaries, the movement is unable to accept the American proposal, which means that according to all accounts, it has been less generously than previous offers, most recent in March.
At the time, senior Hamas officer and chief consultant Khalil al-Hoya said unequivocally that the movement for partial affairs that failed to get a complete and permanent end to the war was unacceptable.
Yet, Hamas is unable to completely reject the latest US proposal, and that Israel is fully aware that the invasion of its ground is preparing to exacerbate the Gaza.
Movement does not have the military ability to prevent or seriously oppose such attacks.
Hamas, trapped among these two realities, effectively, not with the answer to the US proposal – but with a completely new counterproposal.
The full details of the US project have not been publicly published and the vision is not published, but it is reported that these important points are included:
- 60 days break in the fight
- Release of 28 Israeli hostages in the first week – alive and dead, and a permanent ceasefire is still released after the rest of the time is in effect
- Release of 1,236 Palestinian prisoners and the remains of 180 dead Palestinians
- Sending humanitarian assistance to Gaza through UN and other agencies
The White House confirmed that by approving Israel before the proposal was passed to Hamas.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas is willing to negotiate the changes they wanted.
He said he was under pressure to bring the hostages home and be willing to receive a temporary ceasefire to do so.
But despite Hamas’s main demand for the guarantee that a temporary agreement is the way to end the war, the Israeli government has always demanded the right to return to wars.
Netanyahu said the war would end as “Hamas put on his arms,” no longer in government (and) its leaders are not exiled from the Gaza strip. “
Defense Minister Israel Katz was more stupid this week. “Hamas murderers will now be forced to choose: accept the rules of the ‘Whitcoff Agreement’ for the release of the hostages – or will be destroyed,” he said.
Earlier on Saturday, the Gaza Health Ministry, run by Hamas, said that 60 people were killed and 284 more injured in the Israeli attacks for the past 24 hours.
It says that it does not include the numbers of hospitals in the North Gaza Strip Governor, due to the difficulty of entering the area.
On October 7, 2023, Israel launched a military operation in Israel’s Gaza in response to Hamas’s border attack, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken as hostage.
At least 54,381 people have died in Gaza, including 4,117, since Israel resumed its invasion on March 18, the Health Ministry said.
