The Palestinian group Hamas says that he is studying new proposals for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, but insisted that he was looking for an agreement that would end the War of Israel.
Hamas said on Wednesday in a statement that he had received proposals from the mediators and that the interviews between them to “fill the gaps” to return to the negotiation table and try to reach a cease-fire agreement.
The group said he was aiming for an agreement that would end the Gaza War and would withdraw Israeli Enclave forces.
The announcement comes one day after American president Donald Trump said that Israel had accepted a 60-day cease-fire proposal in Gaza and urged Hamas to accept the agreement before the conditions worsen. Trump increased pressure on the Israeli government and Hamas to negotiate a ceasefire and an agreement for the group to disclose the Israeli captives held in Gaza.
Trump said that the 60 -day period would be used to work to end the war – something that Israel says he will not accept before Hamas is defeated. Trump is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week.
But the announcement of Hamas, which underlined its request for the end of the war, raised questions on the question of whether the last offer could materialize in a real break in the fighting.
Shortly after the Hamas statement, Netanyahu said “there will be no Hamas” in post-war Gaza.
Israeli officials have warned that the country’s soldiers will increase its operations in Gaza if the cease-fire negotiations are not coming soon, according to the United States media.
“We will do in Gaza City and the central camps of what we have done in Rafah. Everything will turn into dust,” said the point of sale, cited a senior Israeli official. “This is not our favorite option, but if there is no movement towards a hostage affair, we will have no other choice.”
The Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said that any opportunity to release captives detained in Gaza should not be missed, adding that there was a lot of support, both in the office and in the public, for the proposal supported by the United States.
The proposal, however, was not publicly supported by the Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir and the Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich.
Hani Mahmoud, from Tel Aviv Tribune, reporting from Gaza City, said the Palestinians were wary of Trump and were disappointed on several occasions by ceasefire who failed to materialize.
“There are the big titles that speak of a potential agreement and the end of the genocide, but what we see on the ground, reality tells a different story. An average of 100 to 120 Palestinians is killed every day,” he said.
“So, for many people, there are a lot of hypocrisy. If you talk about a ceasefire, then you have to create the conditions that would lead to a ceasefire, not climbing, and what we see on the field is definitely an escalation.”
Hospital director killed
In Gaza, Israeli forces killed at least 78 people on Wednesday, according to Palestinian health authorities. Hospital officials said four children and seven women were one of the dead.
Among the victims, there were Dr. Marwan Al-Sultan, director of the Indonesian hospital, who was killed in an Israeli strike on a residential building in an area southwest of Gaza City, according to our colleagues from Tel Aviv Tribune Arabic.
His wife and children were also killed in the attack.
Al-Sultan was a key source of information from Gaza, reporting on the conditions of the Palestinians in the north of the besieged enclave. He had repeatedly called on the international community to put pressure for the safety of medical teams, including when the Israeli army besieged or hit the Indonesian hospital, the largest medical establishment north of Gaza City.
The War of Israel against Gaza killed at least 56,647 people and injured 134,105, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. It is estimated that 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the attacks of October 7, 2023 led by Hamas and more than 200 were taken in captivity.
The war left the Palestinian coastal territory in ruins, a large part of the flattened urban landscape in the fighting. More than 90% of the population of 2.3 million Gaza was moved, often several times. War caused a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, pushing hundreds of thousands of people on famine conditions.