counteroffer

When county officials made a counteroffer, he said, “they came with a pittance.”

The disclosure came as part of Hamas’s counteroffer to Israel’s latest proposal, which envisions a first-phase, six-week cease-fire in exchange for the return of some of the hostages taken during the Oct.

The prime minister’s response came a day after Hamas presented a counteroffer to Israel aimed at securing a cease-fire and an exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners.

“Rejecting Ms. Zucker’s counteroffer does not constitute retaliation,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

Israel was expected to take issue with Hamas's counteroffer, but this response is a categorical rebuke, and Israeli officials clearly see an effort by Hamas to end the war on its terms as utterly unacceptable.