Hamas agreed to the latest proposal from the regional brokers to a ceasefire in Gaza and the hostage agreement with Israel, a source in the Palestinian Armed Group BBC said.
The proposed proposal from Egypt and Qatar are said to be based on a framework on two phases presented by the American envoy Steve Witkev in June.
Hamas will see free of half of the remaining Israeli hostages – 20 of whom are believed to be alive – in two batches during a 60 -day preliminary truce. There will also be negotiations on a permanent ceasefire.
It is not clear that Israel’s reaction will be, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that he will now accept a deal only if all the hostages were launched in one.
In a video clip issued after reports on Hamas’s approval, Netanyahu did not commented directly, but he said that he had obtained the impression that the group was “under tremendous pressure.”
Later this week, the Council of Ministers is expected to approve the Israeli army’s plan to occupy Gaza City, as intensive Israeli strikes prompted thousands of Palestinians to flee.
The Prime Minister announced the intention of Israel to expand its attack and conquer all Gaza – including the areas where most of its population resorted to a committee – after indirect talks with Hamas in the ceasefire deal last month.
On Sunday, hundreds of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv to demand their government on an agreement with Hamas to give all hostages to the home now and end the war.
Netanyahu accused the demonstrators of hardening the Hamas negotiation situation.
He said that the war will end only once all hostages are launched and that Hamas disarmed them. He also wants to be attributed to Gaza, keeping it under Israeli security control, and managed by an unrelated administration or the Palestinian Authority.
Hamas called for a comprehensive agreement that would see the hostages who keep Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, in addition to the extent of the war and the withdrawal of the full Israeli forces from Gaza. She says she will not disarm her unless an independent Palestinian state is created.
The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas -led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others took hostage.
At least 62,004 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the region.
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