Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday of his intention to send his negotiating delegation in the Gaza ceasefire talks to Cairo this week.

This came during their meeting in Tel Aviv, as part of Blinken's ninth visit to Israel since the outbreak of the war on Gaza on October 7, according to what the Hebrew news website "Times of Israel" reported, citing an unnamed Israeli official.

"Netanyahu told Blinken in their meeting that he would send senior negotiators to a summit in Cairo this week, and the team will be led by Mossad chief David Barnea, Shin Bet director Ronen Bar, and the IDF's missing persons file official Nitzan Alon," the official said.

The same delegation had previously participated last week in the expanded meeting held in the Qatari capital, Doha, in addition to the Director of the American Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, his Egyptian counterpart, Abbas Kamel, and the Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani.

In the context, the official Israeli Broadcasting Authority said that an Israeli negotiating delegation returned from the Egyptian capital, Cairo, after a meeting that lasted several hours, during which the issue of the Philadelphi Corridor on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt was discussed.

On Sunday, Netanyahu stressed his insistence on maintaining the army's control over the Philadelphi corridor, while opposition leader Yair Lapid accused him of stalling and sabotaging the negotiations.

On Friday evening, mediators in the Gaza ceasefire talks announced that the United States had presented a new proposal to narrow the gaps between Israel and Hamas.

This was stated in a joint Egyptian-Qatari-American statement published by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, at the conclusion of the second and final day of a round of talks hosted by the Qatari capital, Doha.

This comes as Washington, which is spreading the impression that the talks are proceeding in a "positive atmosphere," hopes that reaching an agreement between Hamas and Israel to stop the war and exchange prisoners will help dissuade Iran and Hezbollah from responding to the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31, and party leader Fouad Shukr in Beirut the day before.