Israel’s war on Gaza live: Meeting in Paris as truce-deal progress reported
Uploaded: Jan 28, 2024
Middle East crisis live: US negotiators reportedly making progress on potential deal to pause Israel-Hamas fighting
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Hello and welcome to today’s live coverage of the Israel-Gaza war and the wider Middle East crisis. I’m Adam Fulton, it’s 8.35am in the Gaza Strip and Tel Aviv and here’s a rundown on the latest news to this minute.
US negotiators are making progress on a potential agreement under which Israel would pause military operations against Hamas in Gaza for two months in exchange for the release of more than 100 hostages, Associated Press reports two senior Biden administration officials as saying.
The officials, who requested anonymity, said on Saturday that the emerging terms of the yet-to-be sealed deal would play out over two phases. In the first, fighting would stop to allow for the remaining women, elderly and wounded hostages to be freed.
Israel and Hamas would then aim to work out details during the first 30 days of the pause for a second phase in which Israeli soldiers and civilian men would be released, the report said. The emerging deal also reportedly calls for Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza.
The director of the CIA is expected to discuss the prospective agreement when he meets on Sunday in France with the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, the Qatari prime minister and Egypt’s intelligence chief for talks.
The Guardian has not confirmed the terms of the potential agreement and Israel and Hamas have not yet commented on it.
More on that shortly. . ."
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