Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly set to meet with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the Israeli negotiating team working to close a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas tonight, to confirm Israel’s position on the latest proposal on the table.
In a post on X, Israeli journalist Barak Ravid quotes a senior Israeli official as saying that the purpose of the meeting is to discuss Netanyahu’s most recent demands for a deal, spurred on by intelligence assessments that Hamas is weary, weakened, and keen to end the fighting.
Two key points that the prime minister has seized on are Israel’s ability to directly prevent weapons smuggling to Hamas through tunnels under the Egypt-Hamas border, and preventing the terror group from moving its fighters from southern Gaza to the north by embedding them among Palestinians displaced by the war when they are permitted to return to the north.
Israel believes that 120 hostages are being held in Gaza — of whom dozens have been confirmed dead by the IDF.
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