Netanyahu to Speak Tonight on Hostage Deal - Breaking News. The speech time is scheduled for 6.30pm in Italy.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he hoped for an agreement between Israel and Hamas on the hostages but that "there is still a lot of work to do" Israel will ask the mediators "to put pressure on Hamasa to present a new proposal", an Israeli source quoted by Ynet said. Hamas' counter-proposal "contains many issues on which there is no possibility that Israel will agree", according to Ynet.