PARIS: Egypt’s foreign minister said on Thursday that Cairo was working with Qatar and Turkiye to convince Hamas to accept US President Donald Trump’s plan to end a nearly two-year-old war in Gaza, and warned the conflict would escalate if the militant group refused. Speaking at the French Institute of International Relations in Paris, Badr Abdelatty said it was clear that Hamas had to disarm and that Israel should not be given an excuse to carry on with its offensive in Gaza. “Let’s not give any excuse for one party to use Hamas as a pretext for this mad daily killings of civilians.

President Trump says he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have reached a deal to end the war in Gaza. Will Hamas agree?

Egyptian media reported that Egypt and Qatar have delivered to Hamas a U.S. cease-fire proposal put forward by President Donald Trump to end the war in...