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China News Service, Beijing, August 18 (Xinhua) Comprehensive news: Israel said on the 17th that it is "cautiously optimistic" about the ceasefire negotiations in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian officials said on the 17th that polio vaccination work will soon be launched in the Gaza Strip.

A new round of ceasefire negotiations in Gaza held in Doha, the capital of Qatar, was suspended on the 16th and is scheduled to resume in Egypt next week.

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office issued a statement on the evening of the 17th, saying that when the Israeli negotiating delegation reported to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on the Doha talks that day, it stated that the latest proposal put forward by the United States "contains parts that Israel can accept" and expressed "cautious optimism" about the possibility of progress in the negotiations.

The statement expressed hope that the United States and other mediating parties would continue to exert pressure on the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to achieve a breakthrough in the negotiations.

US President Biden said in an interview on the 16th that Israel and Hamas are "getting closer" to a ceasefire agreement. According to AFP, Hamas senior official Zuhri responded on the 17th that this was an "illusion." He said that what Hamas is facing "is not an agreement or real negotiations, but an order imposed by the United States."

According to Sky News, Hamas' representative in Lebanon, Hadi, said on the 17th that the organization learned from the mediator that the first round of ceasefire talks had not made any progress, the differences had not been resolved, and Israel had added more conditions, making the situation more complicated. Biden's positive statement was just an attempt to keep the Iranian-led "Arc of Resistance" calm and not to launch retaliatory attacks.