Israel/Palestine

Hamas claims that the terror group handed its response to the Israeli ceasefire proposal to mediators, Hamas's official news agency SAFA reported on Thursday morning.

This follows an Israeli official telling The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that Hamas has yet to deliver an official response to the Israeli proposal that was submitted a week ago and is now raising new demands on issues that had already been resolved.

The hostage-ceasefire deal mediators refused to relay Hamas’s response to Israel’s proposed deal on Tuesday, saying it was not a serious answer, two people familiar with the matter told the Post.

At a meeting with representatives from Qatar and Egypt in Doha on Tuesday, Hamas officials responded to the framework. “This is not a serious response,” the mediators told them, according to the informed sources. “Go back and draft a new one.”