Israel Submits New Hostage Exchange Proposal

Barak Ravid at Axios reporting that Israel has submitted to Qatar, Egypt, and the US, "an official, written, and updated proposal regarding the Gaza hostage deal."

• Ravid notes: "The written proposal was detailed and expanded on the general principles that the director of Mossad, David Barnea, gave to the Prime Minister of Qatar during a meeting in Paris last Friday," and "includes a willingness to be flexible regarding the number of live hostages that will be released in the first and humanitarian phase of the deal, as well as a willingness to discuss Hamas's demand for "sustainable calm" in the Gaza Strip."
• Qatar Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, is expected to present the Israeli proposal to Hamas representatives in Doha, Qatar today.
• Hostage-swap/ceasefire talks are set to resume today in Cairo, Egypt however optimism for an agreement is low after an Israeli air strike in Rafah (FT) and a reported clash between Israeli and Hamas forces resulted in the death of an Egyptian serviceman. Additional analysis on recent developments in earlier bullets: Here and here.
• The Qatari foreign ministry said today that the Rafah strike is a “serious violation of international laws” and expressed concern that it “would complicate the ongoing mediation efforts.”
• CNN notes: "International observers will be watching Tuesday for how the US responds [to the Rafah strike]. US President Joe Biden told CNN earlier this month that he'd halt some shipments of American weapons to Israel if it invades Rafah."