Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is finally ready to agree to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, noted American journalist Seymour Hersh said in an article published on the Substack platform, Paralel.Az reports citing TASS.

"Netanyahu, reassured by the US armada and Iran’s reluctance so far to respond to the [Ismail] Haniyeh assassination, is said finally to be ready to agree to a ceasefire that, in various forms, has been on the table for months," the journalist said. According to him, the key point in discussing the agreement is "the release by Hamas of all the Israeli hostages" in exchange for an indefinite ceasefire.

Hersh opined that Israel is not ready to discuss the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.