Overview

• Special envoy Steve Witkoff delivered the proposal to Hamas on May 29 after Israel officially backed the plan in Washington
• The draft outlines a 60-day cessation of fighting with phased exchanges of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners alongside expanded humanitarian aid corridors
• Senior Hamas officials, including Basem Naim, say the terms do not meet their demand for a lasting ceasefire and an unconditional troop pullback
• More than 54,000 Palestinians have been killed and two million face famine risk, prompting limited aid distributions by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation that have faced chaos and criticism
• Persistent gaps over post-truce oversight and Israel’s insistence on Hamas’s disarmament threaten prospects for a durable agreement