US says it's cautiously optimistic that a deal to end fighting in Gaza is within reach

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Earlier this week, Israel said it was seizing control of Syrian territory in a demilitarized zone established in a ceasefire agreement 50 years ago. Hadar sits right on the edge of this buffer zone. Parts of the village even jut inside it. Hadar's village head, Jaulat al-Tawil, pointed out the Golan Heights beyond it. Syrian territory that Israel occupied in 1967 and later unilaterally annexed.