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Hamas's response is positive...
Hamas has submitted a positive response to a US-brokered ceasefire proposal in Gaza, a Palestinian official close to the negotiations told Reuters on Friday, which could facilitate reaching a deal.
US President Donald Trump earlier announced a "final proposal" for a 60-day ceasefire in the nearly 21-month war between Israel and Hamas, saying he expects a response from the sides within the next few hours.
"We have submitted our response to the ceasefire proposal to the mediators, Qatar and Egypt. Hamas' response is positive and I think it will help and facilitate reaching an agreement," a Hamas official told Reuters on condition of anonymity , the Palestinian official close to the talks said.
Trump said Tuesday that Israel has agreed to "the necessary terms to finalize" a 60-day ceasefire, during which efforts will be made to end the US ally's war in the Palestinian enclave. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to comment on Trump's announcement and, in public statements, the two sides have remained distant.
Netanyahu has repeatedly said Hamas must disarm, a position the militant group, which is believed to be holding 20 live hostages, has so far refused to discuss. Netanyahu is expected to meet Trump in Washington on Monday. Asked Friday US time whether Hamas had agreed to the final framework of the ceasefire deal, Trump said: "We'll know in the next 24 hours."
Trump has said he will be "very firm" with Netanyahu on the need for a quick ceasefire in Gaza, noting that the Israeli leader also wants one.
"We hope this will happen. And we expect it to happen sometime next week. We want to release the hostages ," he told reporters earlier this week.
Israeli strikes have killed at least 138 Palestinians in Gaza over the past 24 hours, local health officials said. Health officials at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, said the Israeli military carried out an airstrike on a tent camp west of the city at around 2 a.m., killing 15 Palestinians displaced by nearly two years of war.
The Israeli military said troops operating in the Khan Younis area had eliminated militants, seized weapons and destroyed Hamas sites over the past 24 hours, striking 100 targets across Gaza, including military structures, weapons depots and launchers. Later on Friday, Palestinians gathered to perform funeral prayers before burying those killed overnight.
In Tel Aviv, families and friends of hostages held in Gaza gathered outside a U.S. Embassy building on U.S. Independence Day, calling on Trump to secure a deal for all the hostages. Demonstrators set up a symbolic Shabbat dinner table, with 50 empty chairs to represent those still held in Gaza. Nearby banners displayed a post by Trump from his Truth Social platform that read: "MAKE THE DEAL IN GAZA. RETURN THE HOSTAGES!!!"
Israel's war of revenge against Hamas has devastated Gaza, which the militant group ruled for nearly two decades but now controls only partially, displacing most of the population of more than 2 million and causing widespread famine. According to local health officials, more than 57,000 Palestinians have been killed in nearly two years of fighting, most of them civilians./ Reuters
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