Netanyahu will send negotiating team to next round of hostage-ceasefire talks — Israeli official

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will send a negotiating team to participate in talks to try to reach a hostage release-for-ceasefire-deal with Hamas, according to an Israeli official.

In the meeting with his negotiators ahead of the decision, Netanyahu “stressed again that the war will end only after achieving all of its goals, and not one moment earlier.”

It was not immediately clear where the next round of talks will be held. Previous meetings have been hosted in Doha and Cairo, and recent low-level meetings have taken place in Doha.

Last night, Netanyahu’s office announced Israel had received Hamas’s latest response to Israel’s proposal, and would study it today. Hamas continues to insist it will only agree to a deal that guarantees a permanent end to the war in Gaza.