U.S. proposes hostage-to-prisoner ratio in Gaza truce talks, Israeli official says

Watch onJERUSALEM/CAIRO -The United States has made a"bridging proposal" for the number of jailed Palestinians to be released by Israel in exchange for every hostage freed by Hamas in any new Gaza truce, an Israeli official briefed on the Qatar-hosted talks said on Saturday.

"The United States put a bridging proposal on the table, to which Israel responded positively. Hamas' response is pending."The U.S. embassy in Israel did not immediately comment. "What America and the Occupation want is to regain the captives without a commitment to end the aggression, which means the resumption of war, killing and destruction, and we can't accept that," Abu Zuhri said.Israel has expressed openness to suspending its offensive for six weeks and allowing more humanitarian aid into Gaza in return for the 40 hostages. That would leave behind 90 hostages, out of 253 seized by Hamas in its Oct. 7 cross-border rampage that sparked the war.

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