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Reports say Hamas gives overall positive response to Witkoff proposal, but still wants clear assurances for end to war
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleHamas has handed its response to US special envoy Steve Witkoff’s ceasefire-hostage release deal proposal to mediators, sources in the terror group tell the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat news outlet.
The sources say Hamas’s response is generally positive, but it wants the release of hostages to take place in additional stages, as opposed to days one and seven of the first week of the 60-day ceasefire.
The sources say that all Palestinian factions from across the Middle East took part in the deliberations on the response to form a united Palestinian position.
A similar Al-Arabiya report says that Hamas is concerned over the fact that there are no clear assurances in the proposal that the war will permanently end, and that the IDF will withdraw from Gaza.
The Times of Israel Community.