Hamas Says It Will Respond to Trump’s Gaza Plan ‘Very Soon’

A Palestinian woman walks over blast debris in Gaza City in September.

Photographer: Ahmad Salem/Bloomberg

A senior Hamas official said the Palestinian militant group will respond to US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza “very soon.”

Deliberations between Hamas and other Palestinian factions as well as with mediators Qatar, Turkey and Egypt are ongoing, Mohammed Nazzal, a member of Hamas’s politburo, said to Qatar-based Al Jazeera TV in comments aired on Friday.