The proposal also mentions the release of prisoners.
An extremist organization Hamas has been offered a 40-day truce, says the British foreign minister David Cameron. According to Cameron, the truce proposal in Gaza also includes the release of possibly thousands of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of Israeli hostages.
Cameron said he hoped Hamas would accept the proposal.
“Frankly, all the pressure in the world and all the eyes of the world should be on them today, saying, Accept that deal,” Cameron said.
The British minister commented on the matter in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, at an extraordinary meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Also the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at the meeting that he was hopeful that the extremist organization Hamas would accept Israel's latest Gaza truce proposal.
According to Blinken, Hamas should make a decision quickly.
“Hamas is faced with a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous on the part of Israel,” Blinken said at the WEF meeting.
“I am hopeful that they will make the right decision,” the foreign minister said.
The Egyptian foreign minister also spoke at the same meeting Sameh Shoukry said that the truce proposal has taken into account the positions of both sides.
Hamas plans to respond to Israel's latest truce proposal on Monday. A representative of the organization told news agency AFP about it on Sunday. According to a representative of Hamas, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the organization's delegation will arrive in Egypt on Monday and submit its answer to the Egyptian intelligence authorities. Hamas said later on Sunday that it had no significant problems with Israel's proposal.
On Monday afternoon Finnish time, it was not clear whether the Hamas delegation had already arrived in Cairo, but Qatari negotiators had already arrived, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
Also according to al-Qahera News, which is connected to the Egyptian intelligence authorities, the negotiations are taking place in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Egypt's own delegation, which brokered the negotiations, was in Israel last week promoting the negotiations.
Egypt, Qatar and the United States have acted as mediators in the negotiations for months without any result. In November, the fighting was stopped for a week and some hostages were exchanged, but since then progress has been practically non-existent.
In recent days, the hope for a pause in the fighting has grown again. News site Axios said over the weekend that Israel has finally shown a willingness to negotiate also on restoring peace to Gaza if the Israeli hostages are released. According to AFP's second Hamas source, the organization also has a positive attitude towards such discussions.
Blinken's is also scheduled to negotiate with the leadership of Saudi Arabia on the normalization of relations with Israel. The Saudis were said to have already considered this before the Gaza war began in early October. Saudi Arabia's decision would have great symbolic significance, as the country is home to two of the holiest places for Muslims.
During his trip to the Middle East, Blinken also visits Jordan and Israel. Blinken's trip is already the seventh since the start of the Gaza war.
Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia just hours after the US president Joe Biden and the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu had discussed on the phone the war in Gaza, which continues for the seventh month.
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