Bishara Bahbah, who has worked as a broker between Hamas and Washington, says Trump is looking to put some heavy pressure on Netanyahu to accept the terms.
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A liaison between the Trump administration and Hamas said that a decisive ceasefire plan on the table is a far-reaching US deal, to put an end to the Israel-Hamas war and free all of the hostages held imprisoned in Gaza.
According to The Times of Israel, in an interview with the Saudi news outlet al-Arabiya, Bishara Bahbah, a Palestinian-American political activist, said, “there was a meeting in Washington that, according to what I know, lasted six hours, and it was decided that there would be one final proposal on the table: the release of all the [hostages] and an end to the war.”
Bahbah is not an authorized element of the American negotiating team, but has been serving as a liaison between the Trump administration and Hamas, according to The Times.
Still, Bahbah said to al-Arabiya that he had “contacted Hamas about the matter [of a comprehensive deal], and they were skeptical — they didn’t know if it was something official.”
Nevertheless, Bahbah said that after officials in Hamas viewed President Donald Trump’s social media post calling for an end to the war, they “were convinced it was official, and immediately responded that they agree to this deal.”
Hamas said that it was willing “to enter into a comprehensive deal in which all enemy prisoners held by the resistance will be freed in exchange for an agreed-upon number of Palestinian prisoners held by the occupation.”
The Hamas terror group describes the hostages it holds captive as prisoners. However, the Israeli government appeared to scorn Hamas’s announcement on Wednesday night, as the Israel Defense Forces kept advancing its plan to conquer Gaza City.
“This is more spin by Hamas, containing nothing new,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said. Netanyahu’s office has said that the war can conclude at once if the following conditions are met — “the release of all hostages; the disarmament of Hamas; the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip; Israeli security control in Gaza; and “the establishment of an alternative civilian administration that does not indoctrinate for terror, does not dispatch terror, and does not threaten Israel.”
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