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Israeli official confirms that US has handed off new hostage deal proposal — one without phases
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleLazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
An Israeli official says that the Biden administration recently sent the draft text of a new hostage-release and ceasefire proposal to Israel, confirming a Channel 12 report.
The official says that Israel is still reviewing the proposal and has not yet responded.
Unlike the proposal that the Biden administration had been pushing since May, this one is not separated into three phases, the Israeli official says.
Earlier this month, government hostage point man Gal Hirsch offered to US officials a proposal that would see all the hostages released at once, and an end to war after Hamas’s leaders go into exile. But Hirsch is not part of Israel’s hostage negotiating team, which has said his offer is not known to them.
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