Sources in Cairo say: Israel has categorically rejected the condition put forward by Hamas, which is to stop fighting in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a deal to release the kidnapped people.

Israel officially informed the mediators in the talks with Hamas that it rejects the movement's response to the proposal raised in the Paris talks.

This came yesterday evening (Friday), when officials in Cairo said that Israel categorically rejected the condition set by Hamas, which was to stop fighting in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a deal to release the kidnapped people.

Meanwhile, contrary to what was reported in Arab media, the Coordinator of Government Operations in the Territories, Major General Ghassan Alian, Gal Hirsch, Chairman of the Forum for Families of Abductees and Prisoners, and Major General (retired) Nitzan Alon, did not visit Egypt.

For its part, the Kan TV channel reported last evening that Hamas had assigned Khalil al-Hayya, who is close to Yahya Sinwar, to Cairo, and he presented an independent plan for Hamas - and not a response to the plan agreed upon between Israel and the mediating countries.