Analysts: Hamas has returned the ball of fire to Israel's feet, and Washington is tired of Netanyahu's games. Experts and analysts said that the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) provided an intelligent response to the ceasefire proposal, and that the ball is now in the court of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Former US State Department official William Lawrence said that Netanyahu leans toward the extreme right, but at the same time he believes that Washington is “tired of these games and wants to end the matter”