by Yasmine El-Sabawi at Middle East Eye
The deal mirrors the one Hamas agreed to in June, after which the US and Israel walked away from negotiations
Hamas told Egyptian and Qatari mediators on Monday that the group has accepted the Gaza ceasefire proposal that had been presented to them earlier that day, sources told Middle East Eye.
This is the same proposal – barring some minor details – that Hamas had accepted on 1 June before both the Israelis and the Americans withdrew their teams from talks in Doha.
Should this ceasefire come to fruition, it would demonstrate a major compromise by the Israelis, a source told MEE.
Israel is on the verge of a military occupation of Gaza City that would mean a complete takeover of the Strip. There are more than one million Palestinians in Gaza’s key northern hub, and the decision by Israel’s war cabinet has been met with condemnations from around the world, including from major allies like the UK, France, Germany and Canada.
Israel’s Kan public broadcaster said on Monday that the war cabinet is not ruling out the possibility of this deal taking hold,…
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