Hamas Reply Said to Mirror 98% of Israel-Accepted Whitkoff Plan

Hamas’s latest written response to negotiators aligns 98 percent with the Whitkoff proposal, a framework the Israeli government had previously accepted, according to a diplomatic source cited by Axios reporter Barak Ravid. The near-total overlap between the two documents could clear a path for renewed negotiations, although neither Hamas nor Israeli officials have issued an official statement on the reported breakthrough.