The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold.

Hamas says it is studying the proposal it received from mediators for a ceasefire in Gaza, adding it will submit its response “as soon as possible.”

Egypt earlier received an Israeli proposal for a ceasefire in the enclave, the state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV cited sources as saying earlier today after talks ended in Cairo without a breakthrough.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spokes this evening with the mothers of hostages Tamir Nimrodi, Avinatan Or, and Eitan Horn about current negotiations for a hostage-ceasefire deal, according to the Prime Minister’s Office.

Netanyahu described to the parents ongoing efforts to secure the hostages’ return and provided “updates on the existence of intensive negotiations currently underway,” the PMO says in a statement about the conversations.

The premier reiterated his “commitment to the return of all the hostages — both the living and the fallen,” the PMO adds.

During a phone call yesterday evening, Netanyahu told the parents of hostage Eitan Mor that the government is working on a deal that would see 10 of the remaining captives released by Gaza terror groups, the Tikva Forum said today.

Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri says in a live interview with Al-Jazeera that “the draft that we received as part of the negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza is an Israeli draft, and it includes, for the first time, the disarmament of Hamas as part of the negotiations of the second phase of the ceasefire.”

Abu Zuhri says that “this is a million times a red line,” and that Hamas rejects it.

He also says Hamas is prepared to release all hostages in one go, in return for ending the war and the retreat of the IDF forces from the Strip.

Elite US university Harvard is risking billions of dollars in federal funding as it rejects a list of sweeping demands that the Trump administration said are intended to crack down on campus antisemitism.

The call for changes to its governance, hiring practices, and admissions procedures expands on a list Harvard received on April 3, which ordered........

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