Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his first comment after Hamas delivered its response to the truce proposal, “We will continue fighting in Gaza until victory is achieved.”

Netanyahu added in a tweet on the “X” platform: “We are all focused on one main thing: complete victory, and our heroes did not fall in vain,” as he put it.

He added, "We are on the path to complete victory and we will not stop. This position represents the overwhelming majority of the (Israeli) people. There are many commentators who say that this is not possible, but it is important for me that you know that it is within reach."

For its part, the official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation quoted an unnamed Israeli official as saying that Israel “will not accept any conditions for a comprehensive and complete ceasefire.”

For his part, an Israeli official said on Tuesday that Hamas’s response to the proposal of a “prisoner exchange” deal for Qatar between the movement and Israel means rejecting the agreement proposal.

On Tuesday evening, the Israeli Channel 13 quoted an unnamed Israeli official that the Hamas movement’s response to Qatar regarding the broad outlines of a prisoner exchange deal between Tel Aviv and the movement means rejecting the proposal.

The Israeli official said that Hamas’s demand for a complete cessation of the war on the Gaza Strip means a rejection of the proposal, and that the Israeli army will not stop the war.

Earlier today, Tuesday, the Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, said that his country had received a response from the Hamas movement, to the proposals that were reached at the Paris meeting between representatives of America, Israel, Qatar, and Egypt, regarding a deal to exchange... Prisoners between Israel and the movement.

The Qatari Prime Minister said, during a press conference with his American counterpart, Anthony Blinken, in Doha:

I would like to inform the media that we have received a response from the Hamas movement regarding the general framework of the parties’ agreement regarding hostages. The response includes some comments on the framework, but in its entirety it is a positive response.

He added: “Given the sensitivity of this stage, we cannot go into details, but the response gives us optimism, and it was delivered to the Israeli side.”

The Hamas movement had explained in a statement that it had delivered its response regarding the framework agreement in Paris to Qatar and Egypt, after completing leadership consultations in the movement and with the resistance factions. 

The statement added: “The movement dealt with the proposal in a positive spirit, ensuring a comprehensive and complete ceasefire, ending the aggression against our people, ensuring relief, shelter, and reconstruction, lifting the siege on the Gaza Strip, and completing a prisoner exchange.”