The United States, Israel waiting for Hamas to respond to the proposal of Alto El Fuego de Gaza, says the White House

The United States and Israel are waiting Hamas To respond to a 60 -day day Gaza Cesefire Proposal, said the White House on Thursday.

The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said Israel signed a proposal that the special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump presented, and sent it to Hamas.

An Israeli official and a US source confirmed that the proposed agreement includes not only the high fire of 60 days, but also plans to launch 10 living hostages and the remains of 18 dead hostages.

The American source added that “help will flow.”

“I can confirm that the special envoy Witkoff and the president presented a proposal of Alto El Fuego to Hamas that Israel supported and supported,” Leavitt said Thursday. “Israel signed this proposal before Hamas is sent. I can also confirm that these discussions continue, and we hope that the fire in Gaza takes place so that we can return all hostages home.”

Leavitt said that Hamas has not accepted the agreement, until his knowledge, but if there is an agreement, the public will hear it directly from it, Witkoff or the president himself.

Bassem Naim, a senior Hamas official, said in a statement that the proposal “does not meet any of our people’s demands, mainly among them the end of war and famine”, but the “leadership of the movement is studying the response with full national responsibility, in the light of the genocide that our people faces.”

A senior figure of Hamas involved closely in the negotiations told News themezone that they are studying the proposal and do not feel that there are many options. Hamas is asking the United States clear guarantees that Israel is not going to attack Gaza within 60 days of the fire, said the high -ranking figure of Hamas.

A source familiar with the reach of the United States to Hamas tells News themezone that an agreement is close, and once an answer is received, Mr. Trump and Witkoff will be transmitted directly.

President Trump has recently expressed optimism that there would be an agreement. Hamas still has 58 hostages, approximately one third of which it is believed that they are still alive, of about 250 that were taken during the terrorist attack of the group against Israel on October 7, 2023. The rest has been released for previous pauses in struggles or have been confirmed dead.

A high two -month -old fire between Israel and Hamas ended in March After the two parties could not agree on the terms to extend it and Israel resumed the attacks in the gaza strip. During that temporal truce, Hamas released dozens of hostages in exchange for Israel to release about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.

Earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was open to a temporary agreement of Alto El Fuego to free more hostages, but “there will be no way that we stop the war” until Hamas is defeated.

Some 1,200 people died in Hamas’ 2023 terrorist attack against Israel, mostly civilians. Since then, some 54,000 people have been killed in the Israel War in the Gaza Strip, most of whom are women and children, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between civil and combatant deaths.

Gaza strip aid delivery resumed earlier this month After a block of more than two months. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a new help group backed by the United States and Israeli, backed by the United States and Israel, He started distributing food this week.

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