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Israel and Hamas are making progress toward a six-week ceasefire agreement and the release of the remaining hostages.
According to an official close to the situation, negotiations are said to have continued as Israel threatened to expand its offensive in Rafah, on the southern edge of Gaza.
The representatives of Qatar, the USA and Israel have met in the capital of Egypt, Cairo. Mediators have made "relatively significant" progress, a senior Egyptian official said ahead of the talks.
The official said the meeting will focus on "compiling a final draft" of a six-week ceasefire agreement, with assurances that the parties will continue negotiations towards a permanent ceasefire.
A Western diplomat in the Egyptian capital warned that more work is still needed to reach an agreement. The diplomat said today's meeting would be crucial to bridge the remaining gaps.
CIA chief William Burns and the head of Israel's Mossad spy agency, David Barnea, were attending the talks, both key in brokering the earlier ceasefire.
In recent weeks, Israel has proposed a two-month ceasefire in which the hostages would be released in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and allowing senior Hamas leaders in Gaza to relocate.
Hamas rejected these conditions. He laid out a three-phase plan of 45 days each in which the hostages would be released in stages, Israel would release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including senior militants, and the war would end, with Israel withdrawing its troops. This was seen as unreasonable for Israel, which wants to topple Hamas before ending the war./ SkyNews
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