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On the 19th local time, after a three-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, US Secretary of State Blinken said that Israel has accepted a transitional proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of detained persons. He called on the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to respond in the same way.

Blinken said:This is a decisive moment, possibly the best chance — or the last — to bring the hostages home, achieve a ceasefire, and put everyone on a path to lasting peace and greater security.

Netanyahu later issued a statement publicly supporting the latest proposal made by the United States to Israel and conveyed to Hamas at the end of the Doha talks last week, saying that Israel's goal is to "release as many detainees as possible," which has been included in the first phase of the agreement.

However, Osama Hamdan, a senior official of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), responded on the same day that the statement "raised many ambiguities" and was neither proposed to Hamas nor agreed to by Hamas. Osama Hamdan said that Hamas had confirmed to the mediator that "we do not need new ceasefire negotiations in Gaza, but we need to reach an agreement on the implementation mechanism."

Hamas issued a statement saying that this was a trick by the United States, who modified the ceasefire agreement to favor Israel, and Israel announced its acceptance and waited for Hamas's consent.An attempt to shift pressure away from Israel and make Hamas bear the responsibility for the failure of the negotiations.The statement said that no agreement would be reached unless Hamas' conditions were met and previous agreements and UN Security Council resolutions were observed.

Source: CCTV News, Guancha.com