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Al Jazeera reports from outside Israel because the Israeli government has banned the channel.

Israeli government officials are approaching the latest round of ceasefire talks with cautious optimism.

This issue has accompanied us throughout the negotiations since the beginning of the year and even since the end of last year, when the first and only ceasefire agreement was reached.

In detail, the following happened: At the end of May, the Israelis gave the mediators what they wanted as part of a ceasefire agreement.

On May 31, US President Joe Biden presented a three-phase plan that will ultimately bring an end to the war.

The following month, on June 11, Hamas submitted its response to the proposal, but it was later sharply criticized by both the Americans and the Israelis, who said Hamas had deleted important parts of the agreement that were not acceptable to the Israelis.

The Israelis have now issued a statement saying they will review and consider Hamas’s latest response to the proposal.

All this comes against the backdrop of growing pressure from the families of Israeli prisoners on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They say that if this agreement does not go ahead, millions of Israelis will once again take to the streets and protest against his leadership.

They claim he is neither able nor willing to come to the negotiating table and reach an agreement on the return of the remaining 120 prisoners from Gaza.

They say the timing is now crucial.