KN. Blinken said that he and Prabowo had talked about the US-sponsored ceasefire proposal. “Met with Indonesian Defense Minister and President-Elect @prabowo, as well as @MalaysiaMFA Foreign Minister Dato’ Seri Mohamad Hasan here in Jordan. We talked about the importance of Hamas accepting the ceasefire proposal that is on the table,” Blinken posted on his social media platform X.
Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) Da’wah Commission Deputy Secretary Khariri Makmun said that Indonesia needs to prepare second track diplomacy in the struggle to defend Palestine, instead of holding demonstrations which are sometimes accompanied by a caliphate agenda. He explained that this effort was similar to the first time the Taliban took power in Afghanistan. Indonesia also facilitated direct talks with Taliban figures in Qatar.
Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters that Hamas accepts a U.N. Security Council ceasefire resolution and is ready to negotiate over the details, adding that it was up to Washington to ensure that Israel abides by it.
Hamas accepts a U.N. resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details, a senior official of the Palestinian militant group said, in what the U.S. Secretary of State called a hopeful sign.
But Qatari and Egyptian mediators have not received formal replies from Hamas or Israel to the U.N.-backed truce proposal, an official close to the talks told Reuters, and both sides suggested on Tuesday the plan fit their clashing goals, raising doubt whether any genuine headway towards a deal had been made.
Discussions also touching on post-war plans for Gaza will continue over the next couple of days, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Tel Aviv after talks with Israeli leaders.
A senior Hamas official urged the United States on Monday to pressure Israel to end the war in Gaza, ahead of the planned visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region to push forward ceasefire efforts. ”
We call upon the U.S. administration to put pressure on the occupation to stop the war on Gaza and the Hamas movement is ready to deal positively with any initiative that secures an end to the war,” senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said.
Hamas’ armed al-Qassam Brigades said in a video that three hostages were killed, including a U.S. citizen, in an Israeli military operation on Saturday in which some hostages were freed.
Israel rescued four hostages held by Hamas in a hostage-freeing operation in central Gaza’s al-Nuseirat on Saturday which killed 274 Palestinians.
A Hamas assertion on Saturday that some hostages were killed in the operation was dismissed shortly afterwards as a “blatant lie” by an Israeli military spokesman.
The Palestinian death toll is the worst over a 24-hour period of the Gaza war for months and including many women and children, Palestinian medics said.