Hamas responds to the proposal of Alto El Fuego, reiterates
Hamas said he has presented an answer to the last proposal of Alto El Fuego of the Envoy of the Middle East. UU. Steve Witkoff to Mediators on Saturday, reiterating his key demands.
The key demands of Hamas are “to achieve a permanent fire, a complete withdrawal of the Gaza Strip, and guarantee the continuous flow of humanitarian aid,” according to the group.
The demands of the group remain the same as in the previous negotiations of Alto El Fuego.
Hamas said that his hostage exchange proposal would imply the release of 10 live hostages and the bodies of 18 dead hostages, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
The Palestinians inspect the debris after the Israeli attacks in the house of the Al-Qattaa family in the neighborhood of Al-Tuffah in the city of Gaza on May 31, 2025.
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The Israeli forces have killed at least 60 Palestinians and wounded another 284 through the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health, led by Hamas de Gaza on Saturday.
According to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, at least 54,381 people in Gaza and 124,054 have been injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, since the war began when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking hundreds of hostages. At least 20 hostages remain in the captivity of Hamas.
The special envoy Steve Witkoff declared that he received Hamas’ response to the United States proposal, describing it as “completely unacceptable.” Witkoff insisted that Hamas agrees with the proposal of the United States frame before conversations.
“Hamas should accept the proposal of the framework that we present as a basis for proximity conversations, which we can start immediately next week,” Witkoff said in a publication on social networks.
“That is the only way in which we can close a 60 -day fire agreement in the next few days in which half of the living hostages and half of those who died will return home with their families and in which we can have in the proximity conversations substantive negotiations in good faith to try to reach a high permanent fire,” Witkoff said.
The White House said Thursday that he had submitted a fire proposal approved by Israeli to Hamas.
“I can confirm that the special envoy Witkoff and the president presented a proposal of Alto El Fuego to Hamas that Israel supported and supported. Israel signed this proposal before being sent to Hamas,” said the White House Press Secretary on Thursday, Karoline Leavitt.
This photo taken from the land of the Arab Hospital Ahli, also known as the Maamadani Hospital (Bautista), shows a cloud of smoke erupting after Israeli bombing in a building in the Daraj neighborhood of the city of Gaza, on May 31, 2025.
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Israel’s Minister of Defense warned Hamas to take the treatment or to be destroyed.
“Hamas’ murderers will now be forced to choose from: accept the terms of the” Witkoff agreement “for the release of hostages, or be destroyed,” Israel Katz’s Israeli Minister Israeli said on Friday.
Katz added: “The FDI continues its activity in Gaza with all its strength, surprising and dismantling Hamas’ advanced positions, while evacuating the local population from each combat zone and attacking the area from air, earth and the sea on an unprecedented scale for the maximum protection of our soldiers in preparation for the entrance of the forces that maneuver in each area and during the handle.”
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