The new Hamas proposal provides for all hostages to go free — but only after Israel permanently ends the war, displaced Gazans being able to return unimpeded to northern Gaza, and the IDF withdrawing from all urban centres in the Gaza Strip.

Having rejected the terms of last week’s Cairo proposal for a hostage-truce deal, the new Hamas proposal requires Israel to end the war in three phases.

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