The Israeli website "Ynet" revealed the existence of negotiations between the mediators, the United States and Israel, in order to reduce the gap between Israel and the "Hamas" movement, allowing the launch of negotiations in Cairo.

According to the website, Israel requested that Hamas waive its basic conditions that it added to the Paris Initiative, and conditions not related to prisoners, such as stopping settlers’ raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The website indicated that Israel refused to send a delegation to Cairo if Hamas’ conditions did not improve.

On Saturday, Israel delivered its response to Hamas’ plan regarding the deal to stop the war and exchange prisoners, to Qatar, Egypt, and the United States, according to the Israeli “Wala” website.

Israel had announced its rejection of the “Hamas” plan, which includes three stages over a period of 135 days, ending with a deal to exchange all Israeli hostages for thousands of Palestinian prisoners, while ending the war on the Gaza Strip, according to “Sky News Arabia.”

According to the Walla website, Israel informed the mediators of its rejection of most of Hamas’ demands, and asked them to do so as well, while preparing for negotiations on the basis of the “Paris Plan.”

In its response, Israel detailed the points to which it objects, which are:

- Withdrawing the forces that divide the Gaza Strip into two parts.

- Commitment to a permanent ceasefire at the end of the stages of cessation of fighting.

- Numbers of prisoners whom Hamas requests to be released in the exchange process.

In the details, a senior Israeli official indicated that “Israel made clear to the mediators that, contrary to Hamas’s demand, it will not agree to the withdrawal of Israeli army forces from the corridor south of Gaza City, which divides the Strip into two parts, early in the first phase.”

However, there is “an Israeli willingness to study the withdrawal of army forces from city centers in the Gaza Strip.”

Israel told the mediators that it opposes Hamas’ request to add the phrase “permanently” to the clause that stipulates indirect negotiations regarding a return to peace in the first phase of the deal.

The reason for this is “Israel’s refusal to commit to ending the war after completing the implementation of the hostage release deal,” according to the official.

Israel made clear to the mediators that it was not prepared to discuss, within the framework of the negotiations on the hostage deal, what Hamas called in its plan “lifting the siege” on Gaza.

It assured the mediators that “the key to releasing Palestinian prisoners that Hamas presented in its answer is unreasonable.”

It also considered that the long list of demands attached to Hamas’ response, such as commitments related to Al-Aqsa Mosque or the conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons, “are unacceptable and have nothing to do with the issue.”