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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Blinken: I believe we’ll get a Gaza ceasefire; ball in Hamas’s court
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says American, Qatari and Egyptian mediators submitted a final hostage deal proposal to Israel and Hamas on Sunday.
“The ball is now in Hamas’s court. If Hamas accepts, the deal is ready to be concluded and implement it,” he says, indicating that Israel has already accepted — something even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has not confirmed.
“I believe we will get a ceasefire. Whether we get there in the remaining days of our administration, or after January 20, the deal will follow closely the terms of the agreement that President Biden put forward last May and that our administration rallied the world behind,” he adds.
