Overview

• A security cabinet meeting is planned Tuesday to consider a mediators’ proposal alongside approved operational plans for a Gaza City assault.
• Hamas says it accepted an adjusted Witkoff framework that includes a 60-day ceasefire and an initial exchange of ten living hostages for Palestinian prisoners.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanjahu has called for immediate talks yet insists on an all-at-once release that would end the war on terms acceptable to Israel.
• IDF Chief of Staff Ejal Zamir has urged taking the improved deal and warned that seizing Gaza City could put the hostages’ lives at risk.
• Around 50 hostages are still held in Gaza, about 20 believed alive, as families mount nationwide protests capped by a rally in Tel Aviv.