Overview

• Hamas announced it accepted a US-proposed 60–70 day truce in exchange for staged release of hostages and partial withdrawal of Israeli forces
• Israeli officials rejected the reported agreement, stating no government could consent to the terms described by Hamas
• US envoy Steve Witkoff called Hamas’s purported acceptance “completely unacceptable” and denied offering the version they claimed to accept
• Recent Israeli strikes killed 55 people over a weekend, including 36 children, while aid organisations warn of severe malnutrition and deepening crisis in Gaza
• US President Donald Trump has expressed frustration at images of Palestinian suffering and urged a swift end to the war, and leaders in the UK, France and Canada have condemned Israel’s Gaza offensive