Late on Thursday, a vocal member of Mr. Netanyahu’s governing coalition took a stand against a cease-fire deal. Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s hard-line national security minister, threatened to resign and remove his party from the Israeli government if the cabinet voted to approve the provisional deal, saying that it would leave Hamas in power in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday accused Hamas of backing out of a cease-fire deal to release hostages and bring a pause to more than a year of fighting.