Overview
- Hamas offered to free 10 living Israeli hostages and return the bodies of 18 others under a 60-day truce in exchange for over 1,200 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
- The group is demanding guarantees of a permanent ceasefire, full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and unfettered humanitarian access through crossings like Rafah.
- Steve Witkoff called Hamas’s response “totally unacceptable” and urged the group to accept the proposed framework to start proximity talks immediately.
- The Israeli military confirmed it killed Hamas Gaza chief Mohammad Sinwar on May 13 and continued air and ground strikes that Gaza’s Health Ministry says have killed at least 60 Palestinians in the past day.
- Humanitarian access remains precarious as hunger drove Palestinians to hijack 77 UN food trucks and at least 30 civilians were killed in an Israeli strike near a US-backed aid distribution point in Rafah.