Hamas' response was “positive and should help reach an agreement” about the suspension of a weapon, “he told Reuters an anonymous Palestinian official familiar with the case.
US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that Israel agreed to the conditions necessary to finalize 60-day truce.
Israeli media wrote earlier that if Hamas agrees to the agreement, A weapon suspension may come into force next week.
According to reports of the American, Israel and Arab press, the agreement is a variant of the earlier proposal of the American Middle East Steve Witkoff.
Trip in the Gaza Strip. What does the US proposal contain?
The agreement is to be established by a 60-day truce, during which Hamas will release 10 live Israeli hostages and pass the bodies of 18 killed kidnapped – wrote the daily “Haarec”. He added that eight kidnapped to be issued on the first day of the truce, and two – 50.
According to the Israeli army, 50 hostages remain in the hands of Palestinian terrorists, of which at least 28 were recognized as dead.
Kidnapped are to be exchanged for the unknown number of Palestinians embedded in Israeli prisons. In addition, the contract is to set up withdrawal of Israeli troops from some areas of the Gaza Strip and increasing the influx of humanitarian aid.
War in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian civilian drama
The war in the Gaza Strip has been going on from October 7, 2023, when about 1,200 people were killed in the Hamas attack to the south of Israel, and 251 were kidnapped. According to the data controlled by HAMAS, the Israeli administration has already consumed the lives of over 57.2 thousand. Palestinians, mainly civilians. The gauze zone is ruined, it has a humanitarian crisis.
The fights were suspended for the time of two trucks – one less than a week in autumn 2023 and the other, in the winter of 2025, which lasted almost two months.
March 18 this year Israel resumed the war, emphasizing that he wanted to put pressure on Hamas in this way to free the next kidnapped and adopted the Israeli conditions for the extension of the truce.
As the media reported, the most serious obstacle in the mediators (USA, runny nose and Egypt) negotiations was the end of the war.
The government in Jerusalem consistently emphasized that the war would end only after the complete defeat of Hamas, and wanted the contract to preserve Israel's law to resume fighting after the truce. The Palestinian organization demanded that the agreement be guaranteed from the beginning the permanent end of the war.
In recent days, Trump announced the rapidly conclusion of a truce several times, and according to the media he pressed on both sides to reach an agreement.
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to be accepted by Trump in the White House.
