Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced on Friday that Tel Aviv will send its negotiating delegation on 15 August to finalise the details of the Gaza prisoner swap deal with the Palestinian factions.

A statement from Netanyahu’s office said: “At the suggestion of the United States and the mediators, Israel will send the negotiating delegation on 15 August to a place to be determined (later) in order to finalise the details of the implementation of the prisoner exchange agreement.”

On Thursday evening, the leaders of Egypt, Qatar and the United States called on Israel and Hamas to resume ceasefire and prisoner exchange talks next Wednesday or Thursday in Doha or Cairo.

This came in a joint statement signed by the leaders of Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Qatar’s Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and US President Joe Biden, according to the Qatari Amiri Diwan and the Egyptian presidency.