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Jerusalem, June 2. An aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed today that Israel had accepted a framework deal for winding down the Gaza war now being advanced by US President Joe Biden, though he described it as flawed and in need of much more work...
In an interview with Britains Sunday Times, Ophir Falk, chief foreign policy advisor to Netanyahu, said Bidens proposal was a deal we agreed to its not a good deal but we dearly want the hostages released, all of them...
Biden, whose initial lockstep support for Israels offensive has given way to open censure of the operations high civilian death toll, on Friday aired what he described as a three-phase plan submitted by the Netanyahu government to end the war...
The first phase entails a truce and the return of some hostages held by Hamas, after which the sides would negotiate on an open-ended cessation of hostilities for a second phase in which remaining live captives would go free, Biden said...
That sequencing appears to imply that Hamas would continue to play a role in incremental arrangements mediated by Egypt and Qatar - a potential clash with Israels determination to resume the campaign to eliminate the Iranian-backed Islamist group...
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