Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff as part of his visit to Washington, D.C. on Monday morning.
The meeting took place at Blair House, typically reserved for visiting world leaders, according to the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. No readout was provided.
Earlier on Monday, the London-based, Saudi-owned, pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat cited an informed source in Cairo as saying that a new Egyptian proposal has been put forward for a hostage deal with Hamas in Gaza.
According to the report, the proposed plan includes the release of eight hostages in exchange for a ceasefire lasting between 40 and 70 days.
The source said that the proposal represented a compromise between a Hamas offer to release five hostages in return for a 50-day ceasefire and a demand from Jerusalem for the release of 11 living captives.
