The negotiations focused on freeing Edan Alexander, the only American Israeli hostage still believed to be alive, and the bodies of four other U.S.-Israeli dual citizens who were kidnapped and taken to Gaza in the October 2023 attack, officials told The New York Times.

Hamas said on Thursday that U.S. President Trump's repeated threats against Palestinians constituted support for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to back out of the Gaza ceasefire and intensify the siege of Gazans.

The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has vowed that neither Hamas nor the Palestinian authorities will govern the Gaza Strip when the 15-month-old war ends. Netanyahu disclosed that he is “committed” to the United States’ proposal to take over the Gaza Strip and displace its Palestinian residents.