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Report: Hamas to submit comprehensive ceasefire-hostage exchange proposal in Doha
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel
A Hamas source tells the Saudi channel Asharq News that the terror group will present negotiators with a comprehensive deal for an immediate end to the war and a withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip, and the exchange of a certain number of Palestinian detainees in return for the release of all Israeli hostages at once.
The offer is expected to be submitted following the meeting that US, Qatari and Israeli negotiators are holding in Doha today to prepare for new talks for a ceasefire and hostage release deal.
Israeli officials have been evaluating different options for a deal, including a proposal that was presented in a security cabinet meeting last week to offer Hamas a two-week ceasefire in exchange for the release of five hostages, but the terror group reportedly appears to prefer an immediate end to the conflict.
The unnamed Hamas source tells Asharq that “we will listen to the offer [of the negotiators] but for our part, we prefer a comprehensive deal that takes place in one stage and ends the war once and for all, in return for a prisoner exchange under which all Israeli captives are released in exchange for an agreed number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.”
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