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Friday, May 3, 2024
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Friday, May 3, 2024
Hamas official says terror group will send delegation to Cairo Saturday
Families and supporters of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza hold banners and flags during a protest calling for their return, outside a meeting between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and families of hostages in Tel Aviv, May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Reuters cites an unnamed Hamas official who says the terror group will send a delegation to Cairo Saturday for hostage talks.
The delegation is expected to come with Hamas’s official response to the latest proposal on the table.
CIA chief Bill Burns arrived in Cairo earlier today.
Channel 12 cites an Israeli official who expresses frustration with Burns’s decision to arrive before Hamas has even responded to the deal, again raising expectations that a deal is close when one might not be. However, the network acknowledges that the US is pushing hard for a deal and has likely sent Burns to Cairo to exert as much pressure as possible on the parties.
