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You're listening to News Hour on the World Service of the BBC.
This is Owen Bennett Jones and there is breaking news just now
because around 20 minutes ago Hamas said that it had issued its response to the US ceasefire proposal,
and that has just come through.
And I'm going to read you most of it now because we've been talking about this for two years.
It seems worth hearing this pretty much in full.
Here it goes.
The Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, appreciates the Arab Islamic and international efforts,
as well as the efforts of US President Donald Trump,
calling for an end to the war on the Gaza Strip,
a prisoner exchange, the immediate entry of aid,
the rejection of the occupation of the Gaza Strip and the displacement of our Palestinian people from it.
In this context,
and in order to achieve a cessation of hostilities and a full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip,
the movement announces its agreement to release all Israeli prisoners living and dead.
According to the exchange formula contained in President Trump's proposal provided the field conditions for the exchange are met and in this context the movement affirms its readiness to immediately enter negotiations through the mediators to discuss the details.
That seems a very small caveat basically on the details.
of how to do the releases, but then this may be the important bit.
The movement also renews its agreement to hand over the administration of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian body of independence technocrats based on Palestinian national consensus and Arab and Islamic support.