(1st UPDATE) If successful, the ceasefire deal would cap over a year of start-and-stop talks and lead to the biggest release of Israeli hostages since the early days of the conflict
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Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of a deal on Monday, January 13, an official briefed on the negotiations said, after a midnight “breakthrough” in talks attended by envoys of both the outgoing US president and President-elect Donald Trump. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the ball was in Hamas’ court. Hamas said it was keen to reach a deal.
“The negotiation over some core issues made progress and we are working to conclude what remains soon,” a Hamas official said. The warring sides have broadly agreed for months on the principle of halting the fighting in return for the release of hostages held by Hamas and Palestinian detainees held by Israel. But Hamas has always insisted a deal must lead to a permanent end to the war and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, while Israel has said it will not end the war until Hamas is dismantled.Trump’s January 20 inauguration is now widely seen as a de facto deadline for a ceasefire agreement.
On the 16th day of the ceasefire, negotiations would start on a second stage during which the remaining living hostages — male soldiers and men of military age — would be released and the bodies of dead hostages returned.
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