Sources close to a senior Hamas official said that "there has been a significant development in the talks. Hamas has agreed to a gradual cessation of the war and to a deal that is divided into three stages and includes a gradual withdrawal."
No official confirmation on the ongoing negotiations © Mena Today
Sources close to a senior Hamas official said that "there has been a significant development in the talks. Hamas has agreed to a gradual cessation of the war and to a deal that is divided into three stages and includes a gradual withdrawal."
The sources added that "Hamas has forwarded to Egypt a list of the kidnapped civilians that are alive, and is awaiting Israeli agreements regarding the list of Palestinian prisoners it requested, including dangerous prisoners."
Israel’s decision on December 26, 2025 to recognise Somaliland as an independent state has landed like a starting pistol for dealmakers: a rush of exploratory calls, “we should go now” trade missions, and early jockeying for pole positions that tend to vanish once bigger capitals and multilateral lenders pile in.
The fashionable claim in Western commentary is that Israel is sliding into pariah status, scolded by international bodies, shunned in cultural spaces, and punished in reputational terms for the Gaza war.
High-profile activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who was released from prison after an Egyptian presidential pardon in September, has arrived in Britain, the Egyptian-British campaigner's family and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Friday.
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