Hamas announced that he has presented a “positive response” to the mediators about the current proposal for liberation of high fire and the exchange of hostages in the table.
According to the group, how the proposal will be implemented will require another round of negotiations.
The Palestinians inspect the debris after the Israeli attacks in the house of the Al-Qattaa family in the neighborhood of Al-Tuffah in the city of Gaza on May 31, 2025.
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“The movement is fully prepared to immediately enter a round of negotiations regarding the mechanism to implement this framework,” said Hamas.
The agreement arrives more than 20 months in the conflict, and more than three months after a previous agreement ended.
Israel had waited for a Hamas response in Alto El Fuego and the Hostage Agreement for Friday, an Israeli official told ABC News.
The Office of the Israeli Prime Minister of Netanyahu approached Hamas’ response to the proposal of Alto El Fuego on the table, saying in a statement: “The changes that Hamas requests to make” are “unacceptable for Israel.”
However, the office said a negotiation team will leave Doha, Qatar on Sunday, to continue negotiations on the proposal.
“After evaluating the situation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed to accept the invitation to proximity conversations and continue negotiations to return to our hostages on the basis of Qatar proposal that Israel agreed,” the office said.
Earlier this week, a Hamas advisor said the group was still studying the proposal.
“Hamas is open to any proposal that ends the Israeli military campaign in Gaza, but Hamas wants guarantees that Israel will commit to the second phase of the high fire agreement after the first phase, which will last 60 days,” said Taher Al-Nounou, Hamas Media Advisor.
What is in the deal?
The high temporary fire agreement reviewed on the table now deals with the launch of more hostages of Hamas, according to two Israeli sources familiar with the matter.
The agreement requires the release of 10 living hostages from Hamas’s captivity and the return of 15 bodies of hostages that have the terrorist group.
It is believed that there are about 20 living hostages that Hamas are still in the hands of Hamas.
According to the terms of the proposal, the release of the 10 live hostages and 15 bodies will be staggered during the 60 -day period, the high temporary fire is in force.
According to the terms of the agreement, Hamas will not celebrate ceremonies for hostages, as they did for a high six -week fire.
The discussion of a high permanent fire will take place during the 60 -day period.
Even after Hamas responds to the proposal, there are still several problems that remain to be addressed, said one of the sources, including the number of Palestinian prisoners who will be released in exchange for hostages.
In many rounds of negotiations, Hamas has sought a guaranteed end for the war in Gaza, but that remained a main conflict point in recent negotiations and something that Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had not agreed to move.
President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on April 7, 2025.
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President Donald Trump announced earlier this week that Israel had agreed the conditions for the high 60 -day fire in Gaza.
Trump said the representatives of Qatar and Egypt would deliver the final proposal to Hamas, which occurred after a “long and productive meeting” between Trump’s officials and Israeli officials in Washington, DC on Tuesday.
“I hope, for the good of the Middle East, that Hamas takes this deal, because it will not improve, it will only get worse,” Trump said in a publication about his social platform of truth.
The last agreement occurs after months of negotiations on a high fire led partly by the envoy of the Middle East, Steve Witkoff.
In May, the White House presented a proposal approved by Israeli for a high fire of 60 days to Hamas, but the agreement stagnated.
At that time, Trump urged both Israel and Hamas to reach an agreement before and during his first foreign policy trip of his second term to the Middle East. Ultimately, an agreement was not reached, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu increased attacks against Gaza after Trump left the region
In January, a high temporary fire of six weeks came into force, which resulted in the release of dozens of captives held by Hamas and an exchange of Palestinian prisoners.
However, that high fire ended on March 18 when Israel resumed military operations against Hamas in Gaza, with Israel citing the failure to free the remaining hostages and say that the military were pointing to Hamas terrorists who represented a threat to Israeli troops and citizens.
The Israeli government also imposed a blockade on humanitarian aid that entered the Gaza Strip on March 2 that lasted 11 weeks and ended on May 19.
The Israel-Hamas War has had a gloomy human touch. Since the war began, almost 56,000 people in Gaza have been killed and more than 131,000 have been injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, directed by Hamas.
The war began on October 7, 2023, when 1,200 people died in a terrorist attack led by Hamas in southern Israel. Hundreds more were taken as hostages. It is believed that at least 20 living hostages still remain in the captivity of Hamas.
-ABC News’ Dana Savir, Jordana Miller, Diaa Ostaz and Nasser Atta contributed to this report.