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Saturday, July 5, 2025
PM’s office says Hamas seeking unacceptable changes to hostage deal proposal
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
The Prime Minister’s Office confirms in a statement that an Israeli negotiating team will head to Qatar on Sunday for hostage talks.
“The changes that Hamas is seeking to make to the Qatari proposal were delivered to us last night and are not acceptable to Israel,” says the PMO.
According to a source involved in the mediation efforts, Hamas wants three core changes. It wants the agreement to say that talks on a permanent ceasefire will continue until an agreement is reached; that aid will fully resume through mechanisms backed by the United Nations and other international aid organizations; and that the IDF withdraw to positions it maintained before the collapse of the previous ceasefire in March.
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