Turkey said on Tuesday it would impose trade restrictions on Israel, affecting a range of products, until Israel declares a ceasefire in Gaza.

The restrictions cover trade in 54 categories, including steel, cement, aviation fuel and fertilizers.

The day before, Israel blocked Turkey’s request for airdrops of aid to Gaza. Several countries have airdropped aid in an attempt to address what humanitarian groups say is a lack of adequate access to deliver much-needed aid by land.

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz promised parallel measures against Turkey, saying Israel would not respond to “violence and extortion.”

Katz posted on X that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was sacrificing “the economic interests of the Turkish people in support of the Hamas murderers in Gaza.”

The Hamas militant group is considering its latest proposal to halt fighting and release hostages held in Gaza, after U.S., Israeli, Hamas and Qatari officials held ceasefire talks in Cairo.

The proposal calls for a six-week ceasefire, the release of some hostages in Gaza, the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners by Israel, an increase in humanitarian aid arriving in Gaza, and the return of displaced Palestinians to the north. Gaza Strip.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he had received a detailed report from the Cairo talks.

“We continue to work hard to achieve our goals, starting with the release of all hostages and a complete victory over Hamas,” Netanyahu said. “This victory requires entering Rafah and eliminating the terrorist camps there. This will happen. There is A date.”

The United States immediately rebuked Netanyahu. “We have been very clear that we do not support action against Rafah,” a Pentagon spokesman said.

Sabrina Singer, the Pentagon’s deputy press secretary, said “we want to see a solid plan for how they would conduct any operations there” given “significant” humanitarian concerns about the more than one million Palestinian civilians taking refuge there. “We haven’t seen them come up with a formal plan.”

The White House called the talks “serious.”

“What we have now is that we have submitted a proposal to Hamas and we are awaiting a response from Hamas,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters. “Now it will be a matter of whether Hamas can Step up.”

Kirby declined to discuss specific details of the proposed deal, adding “that would be one of the surest ways to derail this deal.”

Back-and-forth talks over a ceasefire and hostage releases come days after U.S. President Joe Biden warned Netanyahu that the U.S. might change its support for Israel’s war effort, coupled with the threat of prolonging the war.

Biden demanded that Israel immediately allow more humanitarian aid into the embattled war zone to aid hungry Palestinians and authorized its negotiators to reach an immediate ceasefire.

Biden’s request came after an Israeli airstrike killed seven international aid workers trying to deliver food to Gaza.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reinforced that message in a phone call with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Galant on Monday, the Pentagon said.

Austin discussed the need for a “significant increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza” and the Israeli military’s investigation into a strike that resulted in the death of a worker at the aid group World Central Kitchen.

“Secretary Galante provided detailed information regarding the IDF withdrawal from parts of Gaza and future Israeli operations against Hamas,” Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement. “Secretary Austin expressed his commitment to supporting the unconditional return of all hostages and expressed the hope that ongoing negotiations will lead to a moratorium on hostilities.”

“We’re seeing over 300 people,” Kirby said Sunday. [humanitarian aid] Trucks entering Gaza, that’s progress. But obviously, we need to see that number increase, and we need to see it continue to really address the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. “

Israeli officials are also due to visit the White House in the coming days to hear U.S. concerns about a possible Israeli attack on Rafah.

“We do not support a large-scale ground operation in Rafah,” Kirby said. “We have also seen no indication that such a large-scale ground operation is imminent or that these forces [moved out of Khan Younis] are being repositioned for such ground operations. “

Hamas is believed to still be holding about 100 hostages in Gaza, including about 250 hostages who launched a shocking attack on Israel on October 7 that killed 1,200 people.

As of mid-February, 112 hostages had been released, most during a week-long ceasefire in November, and 36 hostages are believed to have died or been killed during six months of fighting in Gaza.

The Hamas health ministry in Gaza said Israel’s counteroffensive has killed more than 33,000 people, two-thirds of them women and children. The Israeli military said it killed thousands of militants in total.

Information for this report was provided in part by Reuters, The Associated Press and AFP.