Netanyahu says Israel has accepted the new American fire cessation proposal in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the families of the hostages in Gaza that Israel has accepted a new fire cessation presented by US President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, writes News.ro citing AFP and Reuters.

“We are about to send a new proposal that will hope to be delivered later today,” Steve Witkoff said on Wednesday. He said he has “a very good feeling about the possibility of reaching (…) a temporary armistice and a long -term solution.”

Hamas has announced, in turn, that he will study the same American Armistice proposal, while the Israeli army continued his offensive in Gaza with the stated objective of destroying the Palestinian Islamist Movement and recovering the hostages that are still there. “The leadership of the movement received the new proposal of the (special envoy of US President Donald Trump for the Middle East, Steve) Witkoff from mediators and currently studying it, so as to serve the interests of our people, to bring them relief and to lead to a permanent armistice in the Gaza Strip,” Hamas said.

On the 600th day of the War in the Gaza Strip, triggered by the unprecedented attack of Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel killed Mohammed Sinwar, considered one of the last active leaders of the Islamist Movement in the Little Coast territory.

The attack on October 7 caused the death of 1,218 people from the Israeli, most civilians, according to an AFP balance prepared on the basis of official data. Of the 251 kidnapped people that day, 57 are still detained in Gaza, at least 34 have died, according to the Israeli authorities.

Over 54,249 Palestinians, most of them civilians, were killed in the Israeli reprisal campaign, according to the data of the Ministry of Health, considered reliable by the UN.