The US has been talking with Hamas through an American intermediary in Doha this week in hopes of brokering an Israel-Gaza ceasefire agreement, according to a source familiar with the matter, as US officials say President Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with Israel’s handling of the conflict.

White House envoy Steve Witkoff has given Israel and Hamas an updated proposal for a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal and is pressing the parties to accept it, an Israeli official and a source with direct knowledge told Axios.

Adam Boehler gave a full-throated defense of the direct talks between Hamas and the United States. When news emerged in March that the United States was holding direct talks with Hamas, the American envoy in charge of those unprecedented negotiations received a tornado of blowback.

Rights advocates say Israel's actions breach terms of the February deal and send a warning to other released prisoners

The prime minister of Qatar said on Tuesday that efforts to broker a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas have reached a deadlock. Negotiators resumed their talks in the country last week.

The withering Israeli aerial campaign appeared to presage the ground operation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to launch if no ceasefire and hostage deal were struck by the time Trump returned to the U.

The announcement of the first hostage release since Israel shattered a ceasefire in March comes shortly before Trump visits the Middle East this week.

According to the proposed framework, ten living hostages would be released immediately in a single phase, and a ceasefire ... to dissuade Hamas from its refusal and advance a deal for the release ...

Hamas on Monday released an Israeli-American soldier who had been held hostage in Gaza for more than 19 months, offering