Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he had not received a proposal for a two-day truce in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza that would include a hostage release, his office said according to AFP.

Netanyahu told his party that Israel “has not received a proposal for the release of four hostages in return for a 48-hour ceasefire in Gaza. If such a proposal had been raised, the prime minister would have accepted it immediately,” his office said in a statement, referring to a proposal revealed by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday.