Egypt and Qatar are pushing for renewed talks between Hamas and Israel after Hamas agreed to a new ceasefire proposal for Gaza. Nic Robertson explains the Israeli sticking points.

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Israel and Iran have agreed a ceasefire after a twelve day conflict. Meanwhile, Israel strikes in Gaza continue with the humanitarian crisis deepening.

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Hamas has agreed to a new ceasefire proposal after two days of pressure from mediators Qatar and Egypt. The Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has not yet made a decision on the proposal, maintaining its demand for the release of all Israeli hostages. 

The Israeli military remains poised for a potential large-scale operation in Gaza City, despite concerns from the international and aid communities. Internal political pressures are also significant, with protests demanding the prioritization of hostage release and hardline coalition partners urging continued military action against Hamas.

Hamas agrees to new ceasefire proposal

Yeah, and Prime Minister Netanyahu, when he was asked this question yesterday, said he'd been hearing about it in the media, but he didn't give any sort of decision on his position on it. What we have heard from government officials here is that the government's position hasn't changed, and the government's position is now that it wants a release of all the Israeli hostages. As you say, it's also poised, or it has the military poised, it appears, to execute a massive military operation in Gaza City, much to the consternation of the mediators, much to the consternation of the international community, the aid community, who say that this would be an unmitigated disaster. But those, if you will, are the pressures that work both ways, the pressure the Prime Minister of Israel and his government are putting on Hamas to come to the table. They've come to the table under a lot of pressure, sources telling me that it's taken two days of pressure from the mediators, Qatar and Egypt, to get Hamas to sort of open the door, his words, to allow the mediators' proposal and accept it. So it really does all sit with the Israeli prime minister at the moment. He has changed his position on a number of things. If we go back a couple of weeks after the attack on Iran, the exchange of missiles with Iran, there was a mood that said that this deal that Witkoff had put on the table, that sounds very much like what there is at the moment, could be done. The prime minister was talking about putting the hostages first. He's sort of reverted to his previous position, which is now putting destroying Hamas first and the hostages second. Of course, massive protests, hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of Israel over the weekend telling him to get the hostages released, make that the priority. And the prime minister has had a reminder in the past 24 hours from his hardline coalition partners in government, Itmar Ben-Gavir, the national securities minister, saying that this is the moment that the prime minister should go ahead and destroy Hamas, that he doesn't have a mandate for accepting what appears to be on the table now, which is a partial deal, which is only some of the hostages being released, 10 living, 18 remains of deceased hostages. Of course, the mediators see this opening as a path to, as a path, if you will, to getting to that to that bigger prize of getting all the hostages released. But what the prime minister did say last night, and this perhaps is the is the clue to where he's going on this. He did say Hamas is under pressure, something they've admitted to, something that sources close to this process say has been happening. But the ball, as you say, in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's court right now.

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