The United States and United Kingdom both say Hamas should accept the latest deal from Israel, as mediators meet for another round of talks in the Middle East.
The US and UK have urged Hamas to accept the latest truce offering that has been made by Israel .Mediators from both sides are set to meet on Monday local time to discuss the latest proposal.
"I hope Hamas do take this deal and frankly, all the pressure in the world and all the eyes in the world should be on them today saying, 'Take that deal'," Mr Cameron said in a World Economic Forum special meeting held in Riyadh."Hamas has before it a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous on the part of Israel," Mr Blinken said.
Hamas negotiators were expected to meet Qatari and Egyptian mediators in Cairo on Monday local time to deliver a response to the phased truce proposal that Israel presented at the weekend.It comes as the White House says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to listen to US concerns before it launches an invasion.A total of 253 hostages were seized in a Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7 in which about 1,200 Israelis were also killed, according to Israeli counts.
He reiterated that the United States — Israel's main diplomatic supporter and weapons supplier — could not back an Israeli ground assault on Rafah if there was no plan to ensure that civilians would not be harmed. In return for normalisation, Arab states are pushing for Israel to accept a pathway to Palestinian statehood on land it captured in the 1967 Middle East war — something Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected.
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