PROPOSAL
Blinken has referred to as the most recent push for a deal “most likely one of the best, probably the final alternative”, and mentioned his assembly with Netanyahu was constructive, including it was incumbent on Hamas to just accept the bridging proposal.
Officers from the US, Hamas, Israel, Egypt or Qatar haven’t spelled out what’s within the proposal or the way it differs from earlier variations. “There are questions of implementation and ensuring that it is clearly understood what both sides will do to hold out its commitments,” Blinken mentioned on Monday.
Hamas rejected US feedback that it was backing away from a deal, saying Egyptian and Qatari mediators knew it had dealt positively in the direction of the negotiations and that it was Netanyahu who had all the time obstructed an settlement with new calls for.
It mentioned it was nonetheless dedicated to phrases it agreed with mediators in July based mostly on a proposal made by the US in Might.
Netanyahu denies obstructing a deal.