The American Wall Street Journal, citing Egyptian sources: Hamas informed the mediators that it is open to discussing an agreement to release all kidnapped civilian women and children in exchange for a ceasefire for a long period. 19 Israeli women and two children are still in Hamas captivity. This is an important shift in Hamas’ position. Which was opposed to any negotiations before the ceasefire, according to the newspaper.

The American newspaper, citing the same sources, said: Despite the positivity in Hamas’ position, the agreement is still far from reach and the talks could still collapse.

The American Washington Post newspaper: A proposal is being negotiated that includes the release of all Israeli prisoners in exchange for thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including those involved in serious attacks and senior leaders of Palestinian organizations.

The process will be in several stages, the first of which will be the release of 10 women and children who were supposed to be released by Hamas in the first deal. In the second stage, about 40 prisoners will be released, including the sick, wounded, and the elderly, along with soldiers. In the remaining stage, Hamas will release the rest. Of the prisoners, including soldiers and its corpses. For every Israeli, there will be 3 Palestinian prisoners.

Reuters, citing several sources: An agreement has been reached in principle, according to which an agreement will be reached to exchange prisoners during a ceasefire period that will last for one month.

The sources said that there is difficulty in going beyond the broad outlines of the framework presented after a dispute over the continuation of the war at the end of the deal... but the negotiations have already achieved progress and reduced differences regarding the duration of what was described as the “initial ceasefire,” which Hamas initially demanded to continue for several months, but the movement It refuses to move forward until there is agreement on the future terms of the permanent ceasefire it demands as part of the deal.

Reuters quoted two Egyptian security officials as saying: There are attempts to persuade Hamas to agree to a ceasefire for a month followed by a permanent ceasefire, but the movement is demanding guarantees to implement the second phase of the deal.

A Palestinian official familiar with the negotiations said: Hamas is demanding a “comprehensive deal” in which there would also be an agreement on a permanent ceasefire before the release of the kidnapped people, while Israel is interested in interim negotiations.

A senior Hamas official told Reuters that one of the proposals put forward by Israel was to end the war by “removing” six senior Hamas officials from the Strip, which would mean exiling them from there. This proposal was categorically rejected.

He added: The list presented by Israel included the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Al-Sinwar, and the commander of the military wing, Muhammad Al-Deif.

Five sources said that Israel is not ready to discuss any scenario for ending the war that does not include dissolving Hamas.