The new proposal reportedly includes a 60-day truce and a partial hostage release as pressure mounts on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to end the war.

That cautious assessment came a day after the foreign minister of Egypt, the other Arab country mediating the talks, said they were were pushing for a phased deal and noted that Qatar’s prime minister had joined the negotiations with Hamas. Witkoff has ...

We will agree to a deal on the condition that all the hostages are released in a single phase and in accordance with our terms for ending the war," the PMO said. Hamas has sent a message to the mediators,

The head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency visited Qatar on Thursday to revive the cease-fire and hostage exchange talks with Hamas, officials said. David Barnea met with Qatari Prime Minister Abdulrahman al-Thani in hopes of restarting the peace talks,