The Israeli Walla website reported on Wednesday that Israeli officials are discussing a proposal presented by the State of Qatar that includes a complete ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas that takes place in several stages.

The website quoted an Israeli official as saying that the State of Qatar presented a multi-stage initiative for a prisoner exchange deal with Hamas, and that the Qatari proposal does not differ significantly from previous proposals.

The same source explained that "the Qatari initiative includes, in the first stage, a prisoner exchange deal, and in the last stage, the withdrawal of the Israeli army from the Gaza Strip."

The proposal will be presented to the War Council and the Mini-Ministerial Council for Political and Security Affairs, which will meet tonight to discuss the “day after” the Gaza war.

The official confirmed that “a delegation from the Israeli Shin Bet service visited Cairo today, Wednesday, to hold talks with senior Egyptian intelligence officials.”

The website quoted Israeli officials as saying: “There is no significant change in the proposals submitted by Qatar and Egypt regarding a new exchange deal, and the real dilemma that the war government must decide is whether Israel is prepared to stop the war in exchange for the release of the Israeli prisoners.”

While the Israeli official did not mention additional details, the Israeli Channel 13 reported that the deal includes the release of all Israeli detainees in Gaza and the evacuation of Hamas leaders, in exchange for the occupation’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

The offer comes after the visit of families of Israeli detainees to Qatar earlier this week.

In turn, Channel 13 said that while the offer allows Hamas to remain in the Gaza Strip, it talks about the exile of the movement's leaders and the release of all Israeli detainees in several stages.

In a related context, Channel 13 reported that a senior officer in the occupation army, which it did not name, returned to Israel yesterday, Tuesday, at the end of a visit he was paying in Egypt, during which discussions took place about expanding humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, and the issue of “the next day” of the war on Gaza, in addition to discussing the issue of faltering communications regarding the deal.

Commenting on what the Hebrew media reported about the exile of Hamas leaders, Elior Levy, a correspondent for the Hebrew channel Kan, said: “Whoever thinks that Yahya Sinwar or Muhammad Deif will agree to proposals to exile outside the Gaza Strip, he does not know Sinwar or Deif, and he does not even know Hamas.

Hamas leader Osama Hamdan responded to Hebrew media talk about the cabinet’s discussion today of a new Qatari initiative, saying: “There is no initiative of this kind, and it is a process of deception practiced by the occupation government to calm the street,” stressing that there are no initiatives unless there is talk of an end and a complete cessation for war.

He added: "We do not accept any initiatives that are not based on stopping the Israeli aggression, and talk about the resistance leaving Gaza is just an illusion."