<b>Live updates: Follow the latest on</b><a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2024/05/06/live-israel-gaza-war-rafah/" target="_blank"><b> Israel-Gaza</b></a> <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2024/05/02/hamas-ceasefire-talks-latest-israel/" target="_blank">Hamas</a> on Monday agreed to a <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2024/05/07/ceasefire-hamas-gaza-israel/" target="_blank">three-phase deal</a> brokered by Egypt and Qatar for a ceasefire in <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/tags/gaza/" target="_blank">Gaza</a> that Israel said was not acceptable because terms had been “softened”. The US, which alongside Qatar and <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2024/05/04/hamas-delegation-heads-to-cairo-in-latest-gaza-truce-talks/" target="_blank">Egypt</a> has played a mediation role in the talks, said it was <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/us/2024/05/06/white-house-reviews-hamas-ceasefire-response/" target="_blank">studying the Hamas response</a> and would discuss it with allies in the Middle East. Hamas said that its chief, Ismail Haniyeh, had informed Qatari and Egyptian mediators that the group accepted their proposal for a ceasefire. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office later said that the truce proposal fell short of Israel's demands but Israel would send a delegation to meet negotiators to try to reach an agreement. According to the text of the <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2024/04/30/gaza-israel-hamas-ceasefire/" target="_blank">Egyptian-Qatari proposal </a>seen by <i>The National</i>, the deal agreed to by Hamas includes the following points: