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Gaza ceasefire plan hangs in the balance as Hamas seeks changes

Biden’s proposal envisages a truce and phased release of hostages

Armed men attend the funeral for three Palestinian militants killed in a raid by Israeli forces in Kafr Dan, near Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank yesterday. Photo: Raneen Sawafta

Daphne Psaledakis, Emma Farge and Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Doha/Geneva/Cairo

US secretary of state Antony Blinken said yesterday that Hamas had proposed numerous changes, some unworkable, to a US-backed proposal for a ceasefire with Israel in Gaza, but that mediators were determined to close the gaps.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said many of Hamas’s proposed changes were minor “and not unanticipated”, while others differed more substantially from what was outlined in a UN Security Council resolution on Monday backing the plan put forward by US president Joe Biden.