Hamas’s response to a proposed cease-fire deal in exchange for the release of hostages included some “non-starters” but creates space to “pursue negotiations,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Israel, in contrast with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the militant group’s demands “delusional.” In Iraq, a U.S. military strike Wednesday in Baghdad killed a key commander of a militia group that has plotted attacks on American troops throughout the region, officials said.