Egypt offers proposal to get Gaza ceasefire back on track

Egypt has introduced a new proposal to try and get the Israel-Hamas ceasefire back on track.

This is according to reports from Egypt Officials on Monday, March 24, 2025.

Hamas would release five living hostages, including an American-Israeli.

It would be in return for Israel allowing humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and a weekslong pause in the fighting, an Egyptian official said.

Israel would also release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

A Hamas official said the group had “responded positively” to the proposal, without elaborating.

Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media on the closed-door talks.

Israel ended the existing ceasefire last week by launching a surprise wave of airstrikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians.

That came after Hamas rejected Israeli-backed proposals to change the agreement in order to free more hostages before talks on a lasting ceasefire.

The talks were supposed to begin in early February.

Hamas has said it will only free the remaining 59 hostages, 24 of whom are believed to be alive.

This will be in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal.

An American trauma surgeon working in Gaza talked about most of the patients injured in an Israeli attack on the largest hospital in southern Gaza.

He said they had been previously wounded when Israel resumed airstrikes last week.

Californian surgeon Feroze Sidhwa, working with the medical charity MedGlobal, said Monday he had been in the intensive care unit at Nasser Hospital.

Nasser Hospital is in Khan Younis.

According to him, he was in Sidhwa was in this hospital when an airstrike hit surgical wards on Sunday.

Most of the injured had been recovering from wounds suffered in airstrikes last week when Israel resumed the war, he said.

“They were already trauma patients and now they’ve been traumatized for a second time.” Sidhwa told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Sidhwa said he had operated on a man and boy days before who died in the attack.

A Hamas official said the group had “responded positively” to the proposal, without elaborating.

Israel ended the existing ceasefire last week by launching a surprise wave of airstrikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians.

Hamas rejected Israeli and US-backed proposals to change the agreement in order to release more Israelis before talks on a lasting ceasefire, which were supposed to begin in early February, a move that ran counter to the original terms agreed upon in January.

Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed more than 60 Palestinians, including women and children, the Gaza Health Ministry said Monday.

This comes nearly a week after Israel broke its ceasefire with Hamas with a surprise bombardment.

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