No agreement was reached at Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo on Sunday as neither Hamas nor Israel They accepted several alternatives. The mediators’ proposal, according to two Egyptian security sources, casts doubt on the chances of success of the latest US efforts to end the 10-month war.

Months of back-and-forth negotiations have failed to produce an agreement that would end the devastating crisis. military campaign IsraelI’m in Gaza nor release the hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the attack on Israel October 7, which marked the beginning of the war.

At a press conference in Halifax, Canada, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Washington continues to work in Cairo with Egyptian and Qatari mediators, as well as with IsraelYes, to achieve a ceasefire and an agreement on the hostages.

Presence Israelí in the so-called Philadelphia Gap, a narrow 14.5-kilometer strip of land on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, is one of the main points of friction in the ongoing talks brokered by the United States, Egypt and Qatar.

The mediators proposed several alternatives to the presence of forces IsraelAccording to Egyptian sources, none of them were accepted by the parties in the Philadelphia corridor and the Netzarim corridor, which runs through the center of the Gaza Strip.

Israel He also expressed doubts about several Palestinian detainees whose release Hamas is demanding, and Israel He demanded that they leave the Gaza Strip if they were released, the sources added.