Hamas introduced it has submitted a “certain reaction” to the mediators concerning the present ceasefire and hostage trade free up proposal at the desk.
How the proposal might be applied would require every other spherical of negotiations, in step with the crowd.
Palestinians check out the rubble following Israeli moves at the al-Qattaa circle of relatives house in al-Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza Town on Would possibly 31, 2025.
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“The motion is totally ready to straight away input right into a spherical of negotiations in regards to the mechanism for enforcing this framework,” Hamas stated.
The deal comes greater than 20 months into the warfare — and greater than 3 months after a prior deal ended.
Israel had anticipated a reaction from Hamas at the ceasefire and hostage deal through Friday, an Israeli legit informed ABC Information.
Israeli High Minister Netanyahu’s workplace addressed the Hamas reaction to the ceasefire proposal at the desk, pronouncing in a remark, “the adjustments Hamas are asking for to make” to it are “unacceptable to Israel.”
However, the workplace stated a negotiating crew will depart Sunday for Doha, Qatar, to proceed negotiations at the proposal.
“After assessing the location, High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prompt to just accept the invitation for proximity talks and to proceed the negotiations to go back our hostages at the foundation of the Qatari proposal that Israel agreed to,” the workplace stated.
Previous this week, a Hamas adviser stated the crowd was once nonetheless finding out the proposal.
“Hamas is open to any proposal that may finish the Israeli army marketing campaign in Gaza, however Hamas needs promises that Israel will decide to shifting to the second one section of the ceasefire settlement after the primary section, which is ready to closing for 60 days,” stated Taher Al-Nounou, media adviser to the top of Hamas.
What is within the deal?
The revised transient ceasefire deal at the desk now offers with the discharge of extra hostages through Hamas, in step with two Israeli resources aware of the subject.
The deal requires the discharge of 10 residing hostages from Hamas captivity and the go back of 15 our bodies of hostages being held through the terrorist workforce.
It’s believed there are about 20 residing hostages nonetheless being held through Hamas.
In step with the phrases of the proposal, the discharge of the ten residing hostages and 15 our bodies might be staggered over the 60-day length the transient ceasefire is in impact.
Below the phrases of the deal, Hamas won’t dangle ceremonies for the hostage releases, as they did all the way through a prior six-week ceasefire.
Dialogue of an everlasting ceasefire will happen all the way through the 60-day length.
Even after Hamas responds to the proposal, there are nonetheless a number of problems that stay to be addressed, one of the most resources stated — together with the collection of Palestinian prisoners to be launched in trade for hostages.
In lots of rounds of negotiations, Hamas has sought a assured finish to the warfare in Gaza — however that remained a major sticking level in contemporary negotiations and one thing Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had no longer agreed to budge on.
President Donald Trump meets with Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu within the Oval Administrative center on the White Area in Washington, April 7, 2025.
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President Donald Trump introduced previous this week that Israel had agreed to prerequisites for the 60-day ceasefire in Gaza.
Trump stated representatives from Qatar and Egypt would ship the general proposal to Hamas, which got here after a “lengthy and productive assembly” between Trump officers and Israeli officers in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
“I am hoping, for the great of the Center East, that Hamas takes this Deal, as a result of it’ll no longer get well — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE,” Trump stated in a put up on his Fact Social platform.
The newest deal comes after months of negotiations over a ceasefire led partially through U.S. Center East Envoy Steve Witkoff.
In Would possibly, the White Area submitted an Israeli-approved proposal for a 60-day ceasefire to Hamas, however the deal stalled.
On the time, Trump instructed each Israel and Hamas to make a deal forward of and all the way through his first international coverage travel of his 2nd time period in workplace to the Center East. In the long run, a deal was once no longer reached, and Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ramped up assaults on Gaza after Trump left the area
In January, a six-week transient ceasefire went into impact, ensuing within the free up of dozens of captives held through Hamas and an trade of Palestinian prisoners.
Alternatively, that ceasefire ended on March 18 when Israel resumed army operations towards Hamas in Gaza, with Israel bringing up the failure to free up the rest hostages and pronouncing the army was once concentrated on Hamas terrorists who posed a danger to Israeli troops and electorate.
The Israeli govt additionally imposed a blockade on humanitarian assist coming into the Gaza Strip on March 2 that lasted for 11 weeks and ended on Would possibly 19.
The Israel-Hamas warfare has taken a grim human toll. For the reason that warfare started, just about 56,000 folks in Gaza were killed and greater than 131,000 were wounded, in step with Gaza’s Hamas-run well being ministry.
The warfare started on Oct. 7, 2023, when 1,200 folks had been killed in a Hamas-led terrorist assault on southern Israel. Masses extra had been taken hostage. No less than 20 residing hostages are believed to nonetheless stay in Hamas captivity.
-ABC Information’ Dana Savir, Jordana Miller, Diaa Ostaz and Nasser Atta contributed to this record.
