Yoland Nell
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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
Keeping up the pressure on Israel's government, former hostages and relatives of some of the remaining 100 people being held in Gaza demonstrated in Tel Aviv again today. Diplomatic efforts have been gathering pace to end the 14-month-long war.
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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
A senior Palestinian official told the BBC that a three-phase plan was being discussed, starting with a 45-day truce during which civilians and female soldiers held captive would be released, Israeli forces would partially withdraw and displaced Gazans would be able to return to the north of the territory.
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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
Regional mediators and the US must still work out crucial details and overcome deep mistrust between the two sides. Today, Israel's defence minister, Israel Katz, has commented that after a ceasefire, Israel's military would retain security control over Gaza with complete freedom of action.
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US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach
In a later statement, Hamas said reaching an agreement was possible if Israel stopped setting new conditions.
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He said the U.S. was committed to buying or owning it without saying who it would be bought from. And he made clear that he envisages all Palestinians living in this coastal strip. And there are more than two million of them leaving or being forced away, not allowed to return there. He talked about how it could be developed.
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including by involving other Middle Eastern powers, but didn't sort of specify whom. Of course, we had the Saudi Arabian government again rejecting totally President Trump's plans, which Palestinians have said amounts to ethnic cleansing. Other Arab countries have previously rejected all of this.
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It's only on the Israeli side where really looking across the political spectrum, you do have from Jewish-Israeli politicians, those who fully endorse this idea and others who have sort of suggested some openness to it.
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Yeah, there's been a lot of picking over that. So it caused a lot of shock to see them looking so pale and thin. These men were released in exchange for some 183 Palestinian prisoners. We've had a lot of Palestinians pointing out that many of the prisoners who've been released as part of this exchange have also appeared to be in poor physical health. But President Trump did
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address the appearance of these three men. He said that they looked like Holocaust survivors. At the moment, you've got an Israeli delegation that has gone to Qatar, the regional mediator, ostensibly to take part in negotiations on advancing to the second stage of this ceasefire deal. We're currently about halfway through the first six week phase. There's a lot now of pressure on these talks.
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Israeli media wondering if anything can be achieved from them. What mandate has been given by the Israeli prime minister who said he wants to have meetings about President Trump's plans? There are many, particularly on the Israeli right, who feel that President Trump's comments about the future of Gaza have really changed the context here.
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President Trump's planned tariffs on steel and aluminium imports widely condemned
They're very worried about the pictures that they're seeing with Hamas still trying to show it's firmly in control of parts of Gaza. This all causes a lot, a lot of worry for the hostage families. Also that this could result in a return to fighting if the ceasefire is allowed to collapse.