A top Hamas official has told AFP the group expects a swift Israeli response — “likely today or tomorrow morning” — to its new “ideas” for halting the Gaza conflict and freeing hostages.

With Israeli negotiators scheduled to arrive in Qatar for talks with mediators, Osama Hamdan insisted that the group’s military wing remains “in a good condition” to keep up the nine-month-old fighting.

Hamdan said there were no new concrete proposals in a document sent to Israel this week but “some ideas were proposed to overcome” Israeli reticence about a ceasefire.

“We are waiting to hear a response, likely today or tomorrow morning,” he said.

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