Egypt Floats Plan To End Israel-Hamas War

CAIRO (AP) — A senior Egyptian official and a European diplomat say that Egypt has put forward an ambitious proposal to end the Israel-Hamas war. The official said Monday that the plan calls for a cease-fire, a phased hostage release and the creation of a Palestinian government of experts to administer the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank. The proposal, worked out with Qatar, has been presented to Israel, Hamas, the U.S. and European governments but still appears preliminary. It falls short of Israel’s goal of crushing Hamas and would appear not to meet Israel’s insistence on keeping military control over Gaza after the war.