Trump expects a deal between Hamas and Israel in the next few days.

US President Donald Trump predicted during a dinner with US lawmakers at the White House on Friday evening that ten more hostages from Gaza would be released soon, and praised the efforts of his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff.

Negotiators from Israel and Hamas have been engaged in the latest round of ceasefire talks in Doha since July 6, discussing a US-backed proposal for a 60-day ceasefire that would see the release of 10 hostages and the remains of 18 slain prisoners. Trump said, "We've got most of the hostages back. We'll have 10 more coming very soon, and we hope this will be over quickly."

According to Palestinian sources, Israel has yet to respond to the maps presented by the mediators regarding the Gaza Strip, and continues to speak vaguely about the mediators' ideas regarding humanitarian aid, considering the Israeli delegation in Doha to be merely a formality.

A Palestinian source stressed in a statement to Arab media that the Israeli allegations about Hamas's reluctance to respond are baseless, and that the opposite is true, he said.

According to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, Tel Aviv is considering sending a second delegation of senior officials to the Qatari capital, Doha, allegedly in an attempt to achieve a breakthrough in the prisoner exchange negotiations with Hamas, with the goal of achieving a breakthrough in the exchange deal with Palestinian factions in Gaza.

The committee did not provide further details regarding the composition of the delegation or the proposals being discussed in the negotiations, but it considered next week to be a pivotal week in Doha, with both Israel and Hamas accepting the final proposal.

Hamas said on Friday that the Israeli army's failure to free its prisoners by force confirms that it has no choice but to proceed with a prisoner exchange deal based on the resistance's terms and will.

Since July 6, indirect negotiations have been underway in Doha between Israel and Hamas, mediated by Egypt and Qatar and supported by the United States.

For his part, Abu Obeida, the military spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, spoke in a video address, his first since last March, about the resistance's current strategy, admonishing the nation and its ruling regimes, and emphasizing that the resistance is fully prepared to continue a long battle of attrition.

In his speech, Abu Obeida said that four months have passed since the occupation resumed its aggression after "breaking the covenants and reneging on the agreement concluded with the resistance." He noted that during this period, the resistance has caused "hundreds of soldiers dead and wounded, and thousands more suffering from psychological illnesses and trauma."

He added that the resistance and Qassam Brigades fighters are "surprising the enemy with new tactics and methods," having learned lessons from the longest confrontation in the history of the Palestinian people. He also revealed repeated attempts in recent weeks to capture Israeli soldiers.

Abu Obeida emphasized that the Qassam Brigades leadership, at this stage, is relying on a strategy based on "killing the enemy, carrying out special operations, and seeking to capture its soldiers," adding that "the resistance in Gaza is the greatest military school for resisting a people against their occupiers in modern history."