{"id":13308,"date":"2024-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/13308\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:12:48","slug":"foreign-minister-discusses-proposed-gaza-ceasefire-with-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/13308\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister discusses proposed Gaza ceasefire with Hamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/ministry\/about-us\/key-figures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oman&#8217;s Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi<\/a>, held a phone call today with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-67103298\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ismail Haniyeh, Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas<\/a>. During the call they discussed the details of a proposal for a ceasefire, confirming the movement&#8217;s agreement to this proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Haniyeh said that the Palestinian side supports the ceasefire as a step towards calming tensions and stopping bloodshed. The proposal calls for a mutual stopping of military operations and the return of displaced persons to their areas, alongside the release of prisoners from both sides according to interconnected stages and a set of other objectives agreed upon by all parties, including lifting the blockade and allowing the entry of humanitarian relief into the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>Oman&#8217;s Foreign Minister expressed his welcome and support for the agreement and Oman&#8217;s appreciation for the efforts made in this regard by the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Qatar in cooperation with the US administration.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Haniyeh expressed his gratitude and appreciation for Oman&#8217;s support of the just Palestinian cause, emphasising the importance of continuous communication, constructive dialogue and enhancing international efforts to implement legitimate international resolutions.<\/p>\n<p>This is an unofficial English version of an Arabic report. To view the official Arabic text, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/ue23\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ismail Haniyeh, Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, confirmed the movement&#8217;s agreement to the ceasefire proposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15330,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308\/revisions\/15330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}