Overview

• Hamas delivered a broadly positive response to the 60-day cease-fire plan but said it requires clarifications on its extension, Israeli troop withdrawals and unhindered humanitarian access.
• Israel accepted the plan’s core conditions at President Trump’s urging but deemed Hamas’s additional demands unacceptable and dispatched an indirect negotiation team to Doha.
• The US-Qatar-Egypt framework proposes reciprocal releases of roughly half the remaining Israeli hostages during a 60-day pause in exchange for freeing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
• About 49 Israeli captives remain in Gaza, with Hamas expected to free around 20 as part of the initial exchange.
• Mediators caution that unresolved issues on truce renewal terms and aid corridors could delay implementation despite cautious optimism over the agreement’s prospects.