Hamas drops key demands on cease-fire deal: Reports – POLITICO

The experiences could mark a major shift within the talks, which have stalled regardless of U.S. efforts to push brokers Egypt and Qatar to attract concessions from Hamas.

U.S. President Joe Biden personally intervened in latest days, calling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attempt to push the U.S. plan for a multi-phase cease-fire deal that may see hostages launched, combating ended and reconstruction begun.

Hamas spokesperson Osama Hamdan informed AFP on Friday that the group anticipated to listen to from the Israelis “at this time or tomorrow. If the response is optimistic, we are going to talk about the proposals intimately.”

However Netanyahu’s workplace cautioned that talks have been ongoing. “It needs to be emphasised that there are nonetheless gaps between the edges,” it mentioned in an announcement to Bloomberg.