HAMAS is reportedly ready for a ceasefire agreement with Israel following the truce forged in Lebanon with Hezbollah.
A senior official from the Palestine-based terror group told AFP that mediators are ready to broker a "serious" deal and prisoner exchange.
"We have informed mediators in Egypt, Qatar and Turkey that Hamas is ready for a ceasefire agreement and a serious deal to exchange prisoners," they said.
Israeli and American officials have long said they hoped a Lebanon truce would push Hamas to follow.
But throughout more than a year of brutal fighting in Gaza - proposed deals have repeatedly been rejected either by Hamas or Israel.
Israel has insisted on leaving troops in Gaza and along the Strip border with Egypt.
Hamas has insisted on a complete withdrawal of Israel Defence Force (IDF) troops.
A crucial sticking point has also been Israeli hostages, with at least 100 - some of them dead, still kept prisoner in the Gaza Strip.
The end to fighting in Lebanon kicked in at 2am GMT on Wednesday morning - with hordes of civilians flooding south to return to their homes.
Israel urged people not the return yet to areas like Beirut - where much of the fighting has been concentrated - while the IDF clear out.
The IDF launched an invasion into Lebanon in September to obliterate Hezbollah - Iran's largest and most powerful terror proxy - following a year of tit-for-tat exchanges.
Airstrikes by Israel on the country have killed at least 3,823 people and injured 15,000 since October 2023 - the Lebanese health ministry has confirmed.
Officials have also said the war displaced some 1.2 million people.
At least 75 people have died in Israel as a result of strikes launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Israel had crippled Hezbollah as he announced the deal on Tuesday night.
He said 2,000 militants from the Iran-backed group have been taken out by IDF operations.
He said: "Hezbollah chose to attack us from there on the eighth of October. A year has passed - this is no longer the same Hezbollah.
"We eliminated all the senior members of the organisation, we destroyed most of its missiles and rockets, we eliminated thousands of terrorists and we destroyed the underground and terrorist infrastructures near our border - infrastructures that were built over years.
"We attacked strategic targets throughout Lebanon... Lebanon is not the same. All of this would have sounded like science fiction, but it is not."
He also vowed to renew the strikes on Lebanon if Hezbollah tries to attack again.
"If Hezbollah tries to attack us, if it arms itself and rebuilds infrastructure near the border, we will attack," he said.
The deal involves some 5,000 members of the Lebanese army being deployed to the south - with Hezbollah agreeing to remove its presence anywhere below the Litani river just 20 miles from the border.
Israel believes this will help protect its citizens living in the north of the country from short-range rocket strikes and another possible October 7-style surprise terror attack across the border.
UN peacekeepers have also been dispatched to southern Lebanon.
The deal did not involve Hamas - which carried out the October 7 terror attack on Israel last year.
Netanyahu vowed during his speech to continue the war against Hamas and return the hostages who remain in Gaza.
Some 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed in the horror rampage and 250 more kidnapped into Gaza.
October 8, 2023: Hezbollah began firing rockets, missiles and drones into Israel the day after Hamas' October 7 massacre ignited the war in Gaza.
September 18, 2024: Israel's spy agency Mossad carried out mass sabotage against Hezbollah when it blew up hundreds of pagers carried by the terror group.
September 26, 2024: Chief of Hezbollah's aerial force, Muhammad Hossein Sarur, is killed in an Israeli airstrike blitz in Lebanon.
October 1, 2024: Israeli forces invade Lebanon after Israel launched retaliatory airstrikes in Lebanon and the conflict steadily escalated.
October 13, 2024: Four Israeli soldiers were killed and 60 wounded in a Hezbollah drone swarm attack on base – the deadliest since Israel's Lebanon invasion.
October 19, 2024: A terror drone attack launched by Hezbollah directly hit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's seaside residence inside Israel.
October 19, 2024: Hezbollah also fired a salvo of more than 100 rockets into Israel, killing at least one person and injuring others in the northern region of the country.
October 31, 2024: Hezbollah's new terror chief threatened to kill Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in his first national address as leader.
November 2, 2024: Israeli soldiers capture top Hezbollah terror commander Imad Amhaz and escape from Lebanon in speedboats.
November 15, 2024: An Israeli missile levels a terror stronghold apartment block in Beirut.
November 17, 2024: Israel's military said mobile artillery batteries had crossed into Lebanon and began attacking Hezbollah targets, the first time artillery was launched within Lebanese territory.
November 17, 2024: Hezbollah's chief spokesman Mohammed Afif al-Naboulsi is killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut.
November 26, 2024: Israel launched fresh airstrikes in Beirut, just hours before news of the ceasefire broke.
November 26, 2024: Israel agreed to the terms for a ceasefire with Hezbollah.
