Reports of Hamas’s agreement to a new ceasefire-hostage release proposal in Gaza on Monday drew swift reactions in Israel, as proponents of a deal urged the government to reach an agreement, while opponents — including key coalition members — warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against doing so.

The terror group told mediators it accepted a proposal submitted to the group a day earlier, which sources said involves a 60-day pause and the release of 10 living captives, as mediators scrambled to find an agreement before Israel launches its planned campaign to conquer Gaza City.

“You have no mandate to go for a partial deal,” far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said in a statement addressed to Netanyahu. “The blood of our soldiers is not worthless. We must go all the way. Destroy Hamas.”

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich argued that Hamas has only eased its demands because it fears the planned Israeli offensive in Gaza City would destroy the group.

“Hamas is under great pressure due to the [planned] conquest of Gaza because it understands that this will eliminate it and end the story. Therefore, it is trying to stop it by bringing back the partial deal. This is exactly why we can’t surrender and grant the enemy a lifeline,” he wrote on X.

“Continue to the end, win and return all the hostages in one stage,” he added, sharing a photo of US President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post earlier in the day in which he said the only way Hamas would return the hostages was if it were “confronted and destroyed.”

MK Zvi Sukkot of Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party said: “A partial deal will lead to abandoning half of the hostages, pose a tremendous risk to IDF soldiers in the continued fighting, give Hamas a lifeline, and cost us what little international legitimacy we still have.”

Meanwhile MK Benny Gantz of the opposition’s Blue and White-National Unity said the government “has a clear majority [in the public] and a broad safety net [in the Knesset] to bring back the hostages.

“Netanyahu, this is not the time to hesitate, it is the time to make the right decisions for the people of Israel and Israel’s security.”

Haredi parties in the coalition have been broadly supportive of reaching a deal. MK Moshe Gafni of the United Torah Judaism party said, “Our position has not changed: We support the release of our hostages, fulfilling the sacred obligation of redeeming captives, in order to ease the suffering of the families who have been enduring the worst for nearly two years.”

Defense Minister Israel Katz said earlier that “for the first time we are seeing that Hamas, after weeks, is willing to discuss a deal for the release of hostages, only because of their fear that we truly intend to capture Gaza City. The fall of Gaza City will bring about the defeat of Hamas.” He did not make clear whether he backed a deal or not.

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in response to the reports: “We demand that Netanyahu immediately conduct continuous negotiations for the release of all the hostages and the captives from Gaza… The people will not allow the prime minister to torpedo yet another deal.”

After the agreement was reported, an Israeli official confirmed to The Times of Israel that Jerusalem had received Hamas’s latest proposal, while Netanyahu seemed to dismiss the Hamas response and signaled that Israel was moving forward with its plan to take over the Palestinian enclave’s largest city and transfer its population to the southern Strip.

“We can see clearly that Hamas is under immense pressure,” Netanyahu said.

An Israeli official later stressed that Jerusalem remained interested in a comprehensive deal. “Israel’s position has not changed [regarding both] the release of all the hostages and adherence to the other conditions defined for ending the war,” the official said in a statement anonymously.

Revealing details of the proposal that Hamas said it had approved, an Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel that Hamas’s chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya presented Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani on Sunday night with an updated ceasefire and hostage release proposal that backs down from the vast majority of the demands raised by the terror group that led to the collapse of talks last month.

The talks have taken place in Cairo with Egyptian mediation alongside Qatar and the United States, and with Turkey involved in brokering their resumption last week.

The proposal agreed to on Monday by Hamas would see the release of 10 living hostages in exchange for 150 Palestinian security prisoners during a 60-day truce, the diplomat said, adding that the deal will also see the release of bodies of slain hostages.

A source in Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terror group fighting alongside Hamas in Gaza, revealed similar details about the proposal and added that after the release of the first 10 hostages, “the remaining captives would be released in a second phase, with immediate negotiations to follow for a broader deal” for a permanent end to “the war and aggression” with international guarantees.

The source added that “all factions are supportive of what was presented” by the Egyptian and Qatari mediators, referring to the myriad of different Palestinian armed groups that operate in the Strip, largely under Hamas oversight.

The proposal was received by Israel on Monday evening, but Jerusalem has insisted that it is no longer interested in partial deals, saying that it will only agree to end the war if Hamas releases all the hostages at once, among other conditions.

The Arab mediators believe that the Israeli demands do not give them anything to work with, and instead have been working to first secure a partial deal, albeit one they are framing as a “pathway to a comprehensive agreement.”

Similar to the proposal crafted by US special envoy Steve Witkoff earlier this year, the latest proposal envisions negotiations on the terms of a permanent ceasefire commencing at the start of the 60-day truce, with the mediators aiming to secure an agreement on those details by the end of the two-month temporary ceasefire, the Arab diplomat said.

Jacob Magid, Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian contributed to this report.