The White House was playing catchup yesterday, as the IDF began clearing civilians out of Rafah and Hamas submitted a new counteroffer for a hostage deal, The New York Times reported.
The US conclusion by last night was that both sides were still working to gain leverage in negotiations, according to the report.
After Israel made a new, far-reaching offer late last month, Hamas promised to come back with a new offer, which eventually emerged yesterday evening.
The NYT quotes anonymous sources who indicate that in its late-April proposal, Israel “virtually cut and pasted” language from a March Hamas proposal, in order to call the terror group’s bluff.
It worked. Hamas’s rejection of Israel’s offer over the weekend “frustrated the intermediaries because it rejected some of the very language that it had previously proposed.”
The US negotiators publicly decried the Hamas position, and warned that talks would be seen as over if Hamas did not actually want a deal.
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