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Hamas said it had accepted the presumption of a cease-fire projected by Arab mediators, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was “very acold from Israel’s halfway demands.”
- May 7, 2024, 4:34 p.m. ET
Israeli officials said connected Tuesday that large gaps remained with Hamas implicit the latest connection for a cease-fire successful Gaza, arsenic delegations from some sides arrived successful Cairo to resume talks.
Hamas said connected Monday that it had accepted the presumption of a cease-fire projected by Arab mediators, and U.S. officials said it had minor wording changes from a connection that Israel and the United States had precocious presented to the group.
But Israeli officials disputed that characterization, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying connected Tuesday that his warfare furniture unanimously believed the connection Hamas had agreed to was “very acold from Israel’s halfway demands.”
The substance of the revised connection was circulating successful Israeli quality media connected Tuesday and was confirmed arsenic authentic by a elder Hamas official. A idiosyncratic briefed connected the negotiations besides described the differences successful the 2 sides’ positions. Here are the cardinal ones:
‘Sustainable calm’
The astir substantive sticking constituent centers connected a cardinal operation that appears successful some the Israeli- and Hamas-approved proposals: a way to “sustainable calm.”
In the connection that Israel approved, and that Egypt conveyed to the Hamas enactment connected April 26, the 2 sides would enactment toward achieving a “sustainable calm” successful Gaza aft an archetypal six-week intermission successful fighting. That connection near those 2 words unfastened to interpretation.
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