Hamas announced Friday that it had “submitted a positive response” to a proposed 60-day ceasefire with Israel in Gaza, potentially paving the way for a breakthrough after months of stalled negotiations and continued fighting.
Hamas has “submitted a positive response to the mediators, and the movement is fully prepared to immediately enter into a round of negotiations regarding the mechanism for implementing this framework,” the group said in a statement, per CNN.
The response comes after the Trump administration worked for months to bring the fighting to a halt.
Israel had already agreed to the U.S.-brokered framework, clearing the way for both sides to move into final, detailed negotiations before a formal ceasefire deal is reached.
Bishara Bahbah, a Palestinian-American intermediary engaged in direct talks with Hamas, praised the group’s response in a Facebook post.
“We are now much closer to ending this cursed war,” he wrote, adding that Hamas had introduced “amendments it deemed necessary.”
