A ceasefire proposal put forward by the United States on Thursday is “still under consideration” by Hamas but it will only “lead to more killing and famine in Gaza”, according to an official of the Palestine group, as reported by Al Jazeera. The US White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has asserted that Israel has agreed to the proposal but the Hamas political bureau member Basem Naim told the Reuters news agency that the deal “does not meet any of our people’s demands, foremost among them, halting the war”.