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Hamas replied to the US ceasefire, saying that he was ready to release 10 live Israeli hostages and 18 dead hostages in exchange for a number of Palestinian prisoners, asking some amendments to the plan.
The group repeated its requirements for a permanent truce full of Israeli withdrawal and guarantees for a permanent stream of humanitarian aid. None of them are on the table.
It was neither an obvious deviation nor the obvious acceptance of the US conditions that Washington says Israel has taken.
Hamas said he presented his response to the US project proposed by US President Donald Trump’s special envoy in the Middle East.
In his statement, Vitkoff said: “I received Hamas’s response to the US proposal. It is completely unacceptable and transferred us back. Hamas must accept the frame we have nominated as the basis for the proximity negotia talks that we can start next week.
“This is the only way to close a 60-day ceasefire in the coming days.”
A statement by the Prime Minister of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu states: “While Israel has agreed to the updated Witkoff plan for the release of our hostages, Hamas continues to follow his refusal.”
Hamas, a banned terrorist group in the US, UK and the EU, said it insists on the “permanent ceasefire” and “complete removal” of Israeli Gaza Stripe.
The group demanded a sustainable stream of assistance for the Palestinians living in the enclave and said to release 10 live hostages and bodies from 18 dead hostages in exchange for a “agreed number of” Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
But now Hamas has been in the most difficult and difficult position he has encountered from the beginning of the war.
Under the intensive pressure of 2.2 million people living in the worst conditions in their history, and from the mediators, the movement cannot accept the US proposal, which, in all accounts, less generous than the previous offers, he rejected several times, and the latter went in March.
At that time, a senior Hamas official and chief negotiator Khalil al-Hay unequivocally stated that the movement did not agree with partial transactions that will not be able to ensure the full and permanent end of the war.
However, Hamas also cannot reject the US last proposal directly, fully aware that Israel is preparing for the escalation of its offensive.
There is not enough military ability to prevent or even seriously resist such an attack.
Between the two realities, Hamas, in fact, responded to the US proposal not by the answer – but a brand new counter -advice.
The full details of the US plan were not announced or confirmed, but these key points are included:
- 60-day pause in battles
- Issue of 28 Israeli hostages – live and dead – in the first week, and release 30 again at the ceasefire on -site
- Issue of 1236 Palestinian prisoners and the remains of 180 dead Palestinians
- Sending humanitarian aid to gas via the UN and other agencies
The proposed conditions were those that Israel could accept – the White House was convinced of this, receiving Israel’s approval before passing the proposal to Hamas.
It is unlikely that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be ready to agree on Hamas’s changes.
He is under pressure to bring hostages home and stated that he was ready to accept the temporary ceasefire.
But the Israeli government has always insisted on the rights to return to hostilities, despite Hamas’s basic demand for the guarantee that the temporary truce would be the way to end the war.
Netanyahu stated that the war would end when Hamas “shakes his hands, no longer in the government (and) her leaders were expelled from the gas strip.”
This week, Israel’s Defense Minister was more stupid. “Now Hamas killers will be forced to choose: accept the” transaction “conditions for hostage exit – or be destroyed,” he said.
Earlier on Saturday, the Ministry of Health Gaza Gaza said 60 people were killed and 284 were injured in Israeli strokes over the last 24 hours.
This does not include numbers from hospitals located in the northern gas band from the complexity of access to the area, adds.
Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and took 251 people hostage.
At least 54,381 people have been killed in Gaza since then, including 4117 since Israel has restored its offensive on March 18, the Ministry of Health Hamas reports.
