A key mediator on Tuesday stressed the urgency of brokering a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip after Hamas showed a “positive response” to a proposal from Arab countries, but Israel has yet to weigh in as its military prepares an offensive in some of the territory’s most populated areas.

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President Donald Trump said the remaining hostages will only return once Hamas is "confronted and destroyed" as Israel plans to expand its Gaza offensive.

We will agree to a deal on the condition that all the hostages are released in a single phase and in accordance with our terms for ending the war," the PMO said. Hamas has sent a message to the mediators,

The head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency visited Qatar on Thursday to revive the cease-fire and hostage exchange talks with Hamas, officials said. David Barnea met with Qatari Prime Minister Abdulrahman al-Thani in hopes of restarting the peace talks,