Israel’s security cabinet is set to meet today to discuss the “mandate” of a delegation due to travel to Doha for talks on a truce in Gaza, the prime minister’s office has said, AFP reports.

The security cabinet and the smaller, five-member war cabinet will meet Sunday to “decide on the mandate of the delegation in charge of the negotiations before its departure for Doha,” a statement said, without specifying when the delegation would leave.

Israel did not send a delegation to recent truce talks in Cairo. The decision to send a delegation to Doha comes as Hamas has submitted a new proposal for a six-week pause in fighting in exchange for the release of some hostages as well as Palestinian prisoners. Previously Hamas had insisted that any further hostage releases would be contingent on a durable ceasefire.

Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, a member of the war cabinet, held a meeting on Saturday focused on the return of hostages that included “representatives of the negotiation team”, his office said in a statement.

Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on X on Saturday that he opposed sending a delegation to more hostage talks.

“Hamas’s delusional stance shows that the supporters of the deal in the war cabinet and the security establishment have lost the plot,” he said on X. “It’s time to sober up the concepts and learn from the mistakes.”