Tamer Qarmout, a professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entrenches his positions on the conflict, it makes it more challenging to reach the Egyptian ceasefire proposal.

“Yesterday, Netanyahu published an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, and he listed three prerequisites, according to him, for achieving peace in Palestine, and these are destroying Hamas, demilitarised Gaza and deradicalise the whole of the Palestinian society,” Qarmout told Al Jazeera.

“The whole, meaning the West Bank and wherever Palestinians live in occupied land. The fact that he’s stuck with these goals, he keeps repeating them, I think this makes it very difficult to achieve any substantial progress in this proposal.”

Qarmout explained Hamas also have no incentive to engage in the proposal, especially if it does not include a permanent ceasefire as the minimum prerequisite.