A peace deal in Gaza is agonisingly close. First Hamas indicated it was likely to say no, then it said yes. But what it said yes to had caveats – and did not sound the same as the deal to which Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, had agreed.
As Bel Trew, The Independent’s chief international correspondent, writes, “so far, neither Netanyahu nor Hamas has agreed to every specific point in the plan”. Instead, she says, “both have publicly declared their own interpretations of the proposal and vowed to support that”.
