{"id":2417543,"date":"2025-03-29T19:31:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamas-says-it-accepts-a-new-gaza-ceasefire-proposal-but-israel-makes-a-counteroffer-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T19:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:32:53","slug":"hamas-says-it-accepts-a-new-gaza-ceasefire-proposal-but-israel-makes-a-counteroffer-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hamas-says-it-accepts-a-new-gaza-ceasefire-proposal-but-israel-makes-a-counteroffer-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamas says it accepts a new Gaza ceasefire proposal but Israel makes a counteroffer &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhamas-says-it-accepts-a-new-gaza-ceasefire-proposal-but-israel-makes-a-counteroffer-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2417543&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hamas has accepted a new ceasefire proposal concerning Gaza, which was facilitated by mediators from Egypt and Qatar. Simultaneously occurring, Israel has offered a counterproposal in coordination with the United States. The ceasefire discussions follow a resurgence of violence initiated by Israel&#8217;s surprise military strikes,which resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-the-1994-assault-weapons-ban-didnt-work\/\" title=\"Why The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban Didn\u2019t Work\">significant casualties<\/a> and the resumption of hostilities after a prior ceasefire. <\/p>\n<p>The initial proposal included terms for the release of hostages held by Hamas in exchange for humanitarian aid and a temporary halt to fighting, as well as the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners by Israel. Despite the agreement from Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not disclosed details of Israel&#8217;s counteroffer.The ongoing conflict has resulted in massive destruction in Gaza and prompted significant protests in Israel calling for the return of hostages. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/austin-says-hes-had-no-contact-with-chinese-counterpart\/\" title=\"Austin denies contact with Chinese counterpart.\">situation remains tense<\/a> as talks continue amid escalating military actions and complex negotiations over hostages and ceasefire terms.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Hamas says it accepts a new Gaza ceasefire proposal but Israel makes a counteroffer<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2062833\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>CAIRO (AP) &mdash;<\/strong> The <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hamas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Hamas<\/a> terrorist group said Saturday it has accepted a new&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Gaza<\/a>&nbsp;ceasefire proposal from mediators Egypt and Qatar, but <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Israel<\/a> said it has made a counterproposal in &ldquo;full coordination&rdquo; with the third mediator, the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt early in the week made a proposal to get the troubled ceasefire back on track, following&nbsp;Israel&rsquo;s surprise resumption of fighting. It was not immediately clear whether the proposal changed before Khalil al Hayyah, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, announced it had been accepted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3363338\/myanmars-earthquake-death-toll-jumps-to-1644-as-more-bodies-are-recovered-from-the-rubble\/\">Myanmar&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">earthquake death toll jumps<\/a> to 1,644 as more bodies are recovered from the rubble<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3362919\/un-warns-human-rights-abuse-haiti-illegal-weapons-smuggled\/\">UN warns of &#8216;severe&#8217; human rights abuses in Haiti due to flood of illegal weapons smuggled in<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3362517\/trump-first-call-canada-mark-carney-productive\/\">Trump says first call with Canada&#8217;s Mark Carney was &#8216;productive&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Early in the week, an Egyptian official&nbsp;described the proposal&nbsp;to the <em>Associated Press<\/em>, saying Hamas would release five living hostages,&nbsp;including an American-Israeli, from Gaza in return for Israel allowing aid into the territory and a weekslong pause in fighting. Israel would release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-pressures-gop-on-infrastructure\/\" title=\"White House Pressures GOP on Infrastructure\">closed-door talks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave no details about Israel&rsquo;s counterproposal, which it said was offered after Netanyahu held consultations on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Israel a week and a half ago ended its ceasefire with Hamas by launching a surprise wave of strikes&nbsp;that killed hundreds of people. The <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a> blamed Hamas for the renewed fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has vowed to escalate the war until Hamas returns the 59 hostages it still holds &mdash;&nbsp;24 of them believed to be alive. Israel also wants Hamas to give up power, disarm, and send its leaders into exile. On Saturday, Israel widened its ground operations in Gaza&rsquo;s southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas has said it will only release the remaining captives in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire, and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Frustrated by the threat to remaining hostages in Gaza, families and others rallied again Saturday evening to call for a deal that would bring everyone home.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The price of your war is the life of the hostages!&rdquo; some protesters chanted in Tel Aviv. Minor scuffles broke out with police.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;War will not bring our hostages home, it will kill them,&rdquo; Naama Weinberg, cousin of deceased hostage Itay Svirsky, told a weekly gathering of families in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>The war in Gaza was triggered by Hamas&rsquo;s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, in which Palestinian terrorists killed some 1,200 people and took hostage another 250.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&rsquo;s retaliatory offensive has killed over 50,000 people, according to Gaza&rsquo;s Health Ministry, which does not say how many were civilians or combatants. Israel&rsquo;s bombardment and ground operations have caused vast destruction and at their height displaced some 90% of Gaza&rsquo;s population of over 2 million people.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Early this month,&nbsp;Israel again cut off all supplies to Gaza&nbsp;to pressure Hamas to accept new terms to the ceasefire that started in mid-January.<\/p>\n<p>Israel had balked at entering negotiations over the truce&rsquo;s second phase, which were meant to begin in early February. Under the agreement, phase two was meant to bring the release of the remaining 24 living hostages, an end to the war, and full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2062833\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2062833\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas accepts a new Gaza ceasefire proposal; Israel counters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2417544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/hamas-ceasefire-proposal-israel-counteroffer.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[13427,5237,20083,50400,4671],"class_list":["post-2417543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-ceasefire","tag-conflict","tag-gaza","tag-hamas-2","tag-israel"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/hamas-ceasefire-proposal-israel-counteroffer.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417547,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417543\/revisions\/2417547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2417544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}