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# Hamas Announces It Has Accepted an Egyptian-Qatari Cease-Fire Proposal

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## Video: Hamas Announces It Has Accepted an Egyptian-Qatari Cease-Fire Proposal

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_Published 2024-05-06. Hamas announced Monday it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari proposal for a cease-fire to halt the seven-month-long war with Israel in Gaza, hours after Israel ordered about 100,000 Palestinians to begin evacuating from the southern city of Rafah, signaling that a long-promised ground invasion there could be imminent._


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### U.S. State Department Holds Media Briefing Following Announcement That Hamas Has Accepted an Egyptian-Qatari Cease-Fire Proposal

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### U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Hamas Response to Cease-Fire Proposal

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### Israel Agrees to 12 Hour Cease-fire

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## Transcript

Mama said that it is accepted a Qatari and Egyptian mediated C Spire to be ongoing Israeli War targeting the Gaza Strip down details remain scarce at this moment. But it comes as Israel had been threatening even today to go into the Gaza Strip into that southern city of Rafa work half of the strips 2.3 million people had been living after the Israeli Defence of his roared through the rest of the Enclave or the last six months of this war but we've understood over the last weeks of negotiations is that this would be a phase cease-fire that would see how Moss release the remaining hostages that it took from that initial October 7th attack on Israel that also killed some 1,200 people would also see Israel pod.

It's fighting in Gaza, which is seen 34,000 Palestinians killed so far now Israel hasn't come out and said what it's going to do at this point and there had been a hardliner surrounding prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been pushing for this rock offensive, but we have seen tens of thousands of people in this tree. Over these weeks demanding his hostages be released now we have to see what the Israelis will do next.

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