Hamas said it agreed to a ceasefire proposal on Monday, hours after Israel’s military announced evacuation orders for portions of Rafah, a city in Gaza where more than a million Palestinians have sought refuge.

The head of Hamas’s politburo, Ismail Haniyeh, informed Qatar’s prime minister and Egypt’s minister of intelligence that it agreed to the ceasefire proposal, Hamas said. The United States and Israel have not commented on the development.

While details of the agreement are unclear, most iterations of the recent proposals included a roughly six-week pause in fighting, the release of about 30 Israeli hostages held by Hamas, the release of Palestinians detained in Israel’s prison system, and a surge of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. The cessation of battle would also allow for additional negotiations to occur.

Israeli leaders remained steadfast in their desire to conduct ground operations in Rafah to complete their north-to-south sweep of Gaza to defeat Hamas. U.S. and other world leaders have warned that these operations could result in catastrophic civilian casualties without properly accounting for the more than 1 million Palestinians who have sought refuge there.

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The U.S. has sought for several weeks to convince Israel not to go through with a ground invasion of Rafah. The Israelis’ decision to evacuate parts of Rafah came a day after a Hamas rocket attack killed three Israel Defense Forces soldiers and injured several others. The attack occurred at the Kerem Shalom border crossing, the primary hub for humanitarian aid to get into Gaza.

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