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Indirect talks working toward a comprehensive deal on a US peace plan to stop the conflict in Gaza have commenced in the Red Sea resort of the Egyptian resort town.

Middle Eastern and regional officials have reported that the discussions are focused on "creating the field conditions" for a possible exchange that would involve the release of all Israeli hostages in compensation of a group of detained Palestinians.

Hamas has said it accepts the negotiation framework in part, but has not responded to several key demands - including its weapons surrender and governance position in Gaza.

Israel's prime minister said on recently that he anticipated declaring the release of captives "shortly"

Conflict Timeline

The discussions, which will see Egyptian and Qatari officials holding shuttle meetings with delegations from both the conflicting parties in isolation, occur on the eve of the 24-month point of the military operation on Israeli territories on the initial attack date, in which about 1,200 people were lost their lives and 251 others were taken hostage.

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response. From that point, approximately 67,160 have been killed by Israeli military operations in Gaza, based on data from the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.

Proposal Framework

The comprehensive proposal, which has been agreed upon by the Trump administration and Israeli officials, proposes an prompt cessation to hostilities and the liberation of 48 detained individuals, only 20 of whom are thought to be alive, in compensation of numerous of incarcerated individuals.

The proposal specifies that once the two parties accept the plan "humanitarian support will be immediately sent into the conflict zone"

It also declares that the militant group would have no role in administering the territory, and it permits an independent Palestinian nation.

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On Friday, officials replied to the plan in a statement, in which the group agreed "to free all Israeli prisoners, both alive and killed, following the transfer mechanism specified by President Trump's proposal" - if the required situation for the transfers are fulfilled.

It failed to address or accept the comprehensive proposal but said it "reaffirms its commitment to relinquish the administration of the Palestinian territory to a local administration of technocrats, established through Palestinian national consensus and international backing"

The declaration failed to address of one of the essential conditions of the initiative – that the organization consent to its weapons surrender and to ceasing political participation in the administration of Gaza.

Global Perspectives

Gaza inhabitants described the group's reaction to the ceasefire proposal as unexpected, after days of indications that the organization was preparing to reject or at least heavily condition its endorsement of the American initiative.

Alternatively, the organization refrained from including its customary boundaries in the formal declaration, a action many consider a indication of outside forces.

International and regional representatives have endorsed the initiative. The Palestinian Authority, which controls areas of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has characterized the US president's efforts as "authentic and resolute"

The Islamic Republic - which has been one of the group's primary supporters for many years - has also recently indicated its endorsement of the American initiative.

Current Situation

Armed attacks continued in several parts of the Gaza Strip on Monday ahead of the talks beginning.

Israel is implementing an combat campaign in the city, which it has declared is aimed at achieving the liberation of the still-detained individuals.

Mahmoud Basal, representing the region's local emergency services, reported that "no aid trucks have been allowed into the urban center since the military operations started recently"

"Victims remain we cannot retrieve from areas under defense force authority" he said.

Numerous individuals of the urban center have been forced to flee after the armed services ordered evacuations to a designated "humanitarian area" in the southern region, but hundreds of thousands more are believed to have remained.

The military official has cautioned that those who remain during the offensive would be "militants and their backers"

In the last 24 hours, 21 individuals have been killed in Gaza and a additional 96 injured, the local medical authorities said in its current assessment.

International journalists have been banned by the government from accessing the Gaza Strip autonomously since the beginning of the war, making authenticating statements from the conflicting groups difficult.