EU welcomes Hamas response to Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan, says ‘encouraging’ – Middle East Monitor

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday described Hamas’s readiness to release Israeli hostages and engage on the basis of the recent ceasefire proposal put forward by US President Donald Trump as “encouraging”, Anadolu reports.

“This moment must be seized. An immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages are within reach,” von der Leyen wrote on the US social media platform X.

Trump on Friday said he believed Hamas…