Keep pressing for ceasefire and peace
Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas, conducted in Qatar, are formally ongoing, but apparently deadlocked. The latest proposal for a temporary ceasefire and hostage-release agreement would reportedly see 40 Israeli hostages, either women, children, or the elderly, released in exchange for some hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. International press reports say Hamas has claimed it is not holding 40 hostages in those categories; moreover, it remains intransigent over any deal that does not involve a permanent ceasefire. From the point of view of Hamas’s leaders...