Director Bill Burns participates in negotiations in Cairo, Egypt, for a deal between Israel and Hamas. The proposal has been submitted to Hamas, and it is now up to them to agree.
Director Bill Burns was in Cairo , Egypt , over the weekend to participate in the negotiations, which are being brokered by the U.S., Egypt ian, and Qatari governments.
“At the end of the weekend, a proposal was submitted to Hamas, and now it’s going to be up to Hamas to come through,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Monday. “So what the chances are of that, I wouldn’t want to handicap it, except to say that I think it should be plainly obvious, just by the amount of shuttle diplomacy that we’re doing and our counterparts are doing. We’re taking this very, very seriously.
He declined to provide specifics about this proposal, but the administration’s goal is to come up with a deal that “secures the release of all the hostages and leads to an immediate ceasefire.” In the past, U.S. leaders have promoted a deal that would’ve included a six-week cessation of fighting in exchange for the release of vulnerable hostages and a surge in humanitarian aid into Gaza.
Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday. In discussing a ceasefire agreement as a “deal we might not like, but it’s doable, and therefore it needs to be made,” according to
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