The deputy Gaza head for Hamas stated in a statement that the group had received Israel’s formal answer to its most recent truce offering on Saturday and will review it before responding.
Khalil Al-Hayya, currently headquartered in Qatar, stated in a statement released by the group, “Hamas has received today the official response of the Zionist occupation to the proposal presented to the Egyptian and the Qatari mediators on April 13.”
The talks are still at a standstill after more than six months of fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, with Hamas maintaining that any deal must put an end to the conflict.
An individual briefed on the conversations claimed that an Egyptian delegation traveled to Israel on Friday to hold discussions with Israeli officials about finding a means of resuming negotiations to resolve the crisis and return the hostages that were captured when Hamas gunmen broke into Israeli cities on October 7.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official stated that while Israel was willing to contemplate a limited truce in which Hamas would release 33 hostages instead of the 40 originally under consideration, it had no new ideas to make.
In an effort to resolve the situation, the US and 17 other nations made a plea to Hamas on Thursday to free all of its hostages.
Although Hamas declared in a statement on Friday that it was “open to any ideas or proposals that take into account the needs and rights of our people,” the organization has promised to resist international pressure.
