If a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is clinched in the coming hours, the terms will likely be little different than what they would have been months ago. Hostilities will cease for a prescribed set of weeks, in the articulated hope that a later second phase of exchanges will happen and an extended peace will take root.
We believe that we have reached the final stages. We have overcome the main obstacles in the disagreements between the two parties.
At numerous points over the past 15 months of ruinous war in Gaza, Israel and Hamas have drawn close to agreeing on some version of this deal. Each time, talks have foundered at the 11th hour, with both sides blaming the other for the impasse.
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