President Donald Trump’s special envoy and the National Security Council issued a warning to Hamas that time is not on the terrorists’ side and said the administration “will respond accordingly” if an extended ceasefire deal is not accepted and American hostage Edan Alexander is not released “immediately.”

Hamas on Friday said it had accepted a proposal from mediators to release U.S.-Israeli hostage Alexander and the bodies of four dual-nationals who had died in captivity.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office cast doubt on the offer, accusing Hamas of trying to manipulate talks underway in Qatar on the next stage of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.

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