CIA Director William Burns to hold Hamas hostage talks Sunday with Mossad chief, Qatari prime minister

Washington — CIA Director Bill Burns is expected to meet Sunday in Paris with the director of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, David Barnea, and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani, to discuss the latest emerging proposal to free the remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, according to two sources familiar with the upcoming talks.

The more than 100 remaining hostages include six Israeli-Americans.

There is no deal yet. The latest complex proposal must be reviewed by the intelligence chiefs and then be signed off on by political leadership. Brett McGurk, President Biden's national security coordinator for the Middle East, was in Cairo and Doha, Qatar, last week, along with other stops, working on those efforts.