Iran is not seeking war but will give an “appropriate response” to Israel’s latest attack, President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday, according to state media.

Egypt has offered a two-day ceasefire in Gaza to exchange four Israeli hostages of Hamas for some Palestinian prisoners, the Egyptian president said Sunday, after 45 Palestinians were killed in Israeli military strikes.

Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi made the announcement as part of efforts to defuse the destructive war in Qatar, which has been raging for more than a year, with the participation of the CIA and the heads of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.

Speaking together with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune at a press conference in Cairo, Sisi said that negotiations should restart within 10 days after the implementation of the temporary ceasefire in order to achieve a permanent ceasefire.

There was no immediate comment from Israel or Hamas, but a Palestinian official close to the mediation efforts told Reuters: “I expect Hamas to consider the new offers, but are adamant that any agreement must end the war and remove Israeli forces from Gaza.” continues to be” .”

Israel said the war could not end until Hamas was eliminated as the military force and governing body in Gaza.

The United States, Qatar and Egypt are leading talks to end the war, which broke out when Hamas fighters stormed southern Israel on Oct. 7 last year, killing 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostage by Israel’s tally.