A deadline to begin talks on extending Gaza’s ceasefire arrived Monday with the Israeli prime minister in Washington, silence from his office about when a negotiating team might engage with Hamas, and considerable uncertainty about what the next stage of the fragile truce will look like.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will dispatch a working-level delegation to Doha later this week for negotiations on the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, his office confirmed on Tuesday.

Qatar's prime minister on Sunday called on Israel and Hamas to immediately begin negotiating phase two of the Gaza ceasefire, adding that there is no clear plan for when talks will begin.