The promising talks — which reportedly include the US, Egypt, Qatar and Turkey — come after negotiations repeatedly failed to reach another agreement for more than a year since the last deal in November 2023, when 105 hostages were released over a week-long truce.

A Hamas official says that after a weekslong hiatus international mediators have resumed negotiating with the militant group and Israel over a ceasefire in Gaza, and that he was hopeful a deal to end