Trump says Israel has agreed to conditions for Gaza ceasefire; Hamas hasn't responded

Israel signals Hamas negotiations imaginable

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President Trump said Tuesday that Israel has agreed to a connection for a two-month ceasefire successful its warfare with Hamas.

"Israel has agreed to the indispensable conditions to finalize the 60 Day CEASEFIRE, during which clip we volition enactment with each parties to extremity the War," Mr. Trump wrote connected Truth Social. "I hope, for the bully of the Middle East, that Hamas takes this Deal, due to the fact that it volition not get amended — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE."

Mr. Trump did not springiness immoderate details connected the projected deal, and it's unclear whether Hamas volition judge it. Neither Israel nor Hamas has commented publically connected the presumption of a imaginable agreement.

The president said Qatar and Egypt — who person antecedently helped mediate talks with Hamas — "will present this last proposal."

On Friday, Mr. Trump said helium believed a woody betwixt Israel and Hamas was imaginable "within the adjacent week."

Prior pushes for a ceasefire person stalled. In precocious May, Mr. Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff proposed a 60-day ceasefire that would person required Hamas to merchandise 10 surviving hostages taken from Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, arsenic good arsenic the remains of different 18 dormant hostages. In exchange, Israel would person released 125 "life sentence" prisoners, 1,111 Palestinian detainees and 180 deceased Palestinians.

Israel supported that proposal, but Hamas said it responded with "notes and amendments." Witkoff called Hamas' effect "totally unacceptable."

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