{"id":51724,"date":"2024-05-03T17:58:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T07:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=51724"},"modified":"2024-05-03T17:58:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T07:58:41","slug":"hamas-considering-latest-gaza-truce-offer-in-positive-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=51724","title":{"rendered":"Hamas considering latest Gaza truce offer in &#8216;positive spirit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hamas says it is considering in a &#8220;positive spirit&#8221; a Gaza truce deal, while the UN warned rebuilding the devastated Palestinian territory would require efforts not seen since World War II.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After months of stop-start negotiations, Hamas has sounded an optimistic tone about the latest hostages-for-ceasefire proposal, raising hopes an agreement may soon be reached &#8212; even as medics in the besieged strip reported fresh strikes on Gaza&#8217;s southernmost city of Rafah on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said the group will &#8220;soon&#8221; send a delegation to Egypt to complete ongoing ceasefire discussions with a deal that &#8220;realises the demands of our people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Haniyeh, the leader of the Hamas group&#8217;s political wing, told Egyptian and Qatari mediators in calls on Thursday that Hamas was studying the latest proposal from Israel with a &#8220;positive spirit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The stakes of the truce talks were thrown into sharp relief Thursday, when a UN report estimated it could take 80 years to reconstruct all the homes flattened over the course of the nearly seven-month war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas says it is considering in a &#8220;positive spirit&#8221; a Gaza truce deal, while the UN warned rebuilding the devastated Palestinian territory would require efforts not seen since World War II. After months of stop-start negotiations, Hamas has sounded an optimistic tone about the latest hostages-for-ceasefire proposal, raising hopes an agreement may soon be reached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1370],"class_list":["post-51724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-hamas-considering-latest-gaza-truce-offer-in-positive-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}