Israel's response presented to the mediators rejects stopping the war, withdrawing its forces, and returning the displaced without conditions. Israel stipulated the release in the first phase of 40 living Israeli prisoners of all categories.
The Israeli response offered a restricted return of 2,000 displaced people daily to the northern Gaza Strip two weeks after the start of implementation. Israel rejected Hamas's request to release 30 life-sentence prisoners for every female soldier, and only offered 5 that it specified. In exchange for the release of prisoners re-arrested from the Shalit deal, Israel requested the release the two soldiers, Golden and Aaron.