Is Trump really close to securing an Israel-Hamas ceasefire for Gaza?

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It appeared connected Wednesday that President Trump apt inactive has immoderate deal-making to bash earlier helium tin assertion to person brokered a ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hamas to extremity the devastating war successful Gaza. Mr. Trump said successful a Tuesday evening societal media station that Israel had "agreed to the indispensable conditions to finalize" a 60-day ceasefire, and helium called connected Hamas to judge the deal, informing the U.S.- and Israeli-designated violent radical that "it volition not get amended — IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE."

Hamas has yet to formally respond to the latest projected bid deal, and Israeli sources told CBS News connected Wednesday that portion determination was beardown backing successful Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's furniture for the presumption successful the proposal, Israel was not committing to it yet, stressing that the authorities had voiced its backing to U.S. officials for a projected model for a ceasefire deal, not a last agreement.

Mr. Trump didn't connection immoderate details of the projected woody successful his station connected Tuesday evening, but helium said that Qatar and Egypt — which person been cardinal partners to the U.S. arsenic it attempts to broker an statement to extremity the astir two-year warfare — would "deliver this last proposal."

Aftermath of Israeli airstrikes connected tents successful Khan Younis

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, successful a post connected societal media Wednesday, said determination was "a large bulk successful the authorities and besides among the radical for a model to merchandise hostages. If determination is an accidental to bash truthful — we indispensable not miss it!"

But that assertion of cohesion whitethorn belie a perchance important hurdle for Netanyahu arsenic helium prepares to caput backmost to Washington this play to conscionable with Mr. Trump, who's made it wide helium wants to spot a deal to extremity the warfare wrong days.

Numerous Israeli media outlets reported Wednesday that 1 of the astir far-right members of Netanyahu's cabinet, Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, had called connected far-right nationalist Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to articulation him successful blocking the government's support of the ceasefire deal.

Neither Smotrich nor Ben-Gvir confirmed immoderate treatment astir blocking the agreement, but successful a abbreviated station connected societal media, Ben-Gvir said the warfare successful Gaza should not extremity "a infinitesimal earlier defeating Hamas." Both men person been vocal successful rejecting bid deals with Hamas, insisting that the radical indispensable beryllium wholly destroyed, not negotiated with.

Yair Golan, person of the Israeli absorption Democrats party, accused Smotrich and Ben-Gvir successful a societal media station of "leading a bloc to forestall the instrumentality of the hostages." He said they "do not merit to beryllium astir the authorities table. And whoever continues to let them to beryllium determination does not merit to pb Israel for adjacent 1 much day."

While the existent prospects of Israel and Hamas agreeing to a ceasefire successful the abbreviated clip framework that Mr. Trump is hoping for remained unclear, adjacent the proposition that bid could beryllium looming whitethorn rise hopes for Gazans who hazard their lives each time conscionable to enactment up lining up for food.

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation responds to criticism

The Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health says astatine slightest 640 civilians person been changeable to decease successful caller weeks trying to entree desperately needed humanitarian supplies, including much than 400 astatine organisation sites tally by the heavy criticized U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Since it began operating successful the war-torn enclave connected May 26, GHF has faced adjacent regular claims of aid-seekers being killed by Israeli forces arsenic they effort to scope its 4 hubs successful Gaza.

Earlier this week, much than 170 humanitarian groups called for the opaquely tally enactment — which has ne'er revealed its backing oregon absorption operation — to beryllium disbanded and each assistance efforts successful Gaza to beryllium reorganized nether the long-established United Nations-led system. Those planetary humanitarian efforts person been mostly blocked by Israel since March.

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The Israeli subject says it works with the GHF to alteration assistance organisation without the hazard of nutrient and different goods being stolen by Hamas.

The Trump medication has backed that reasoning and refused to enactment different means of nutrient dispersal successful Gaza, alternatively calling connected different nations and institutions to enactment with the GHF, which replaced immoderate 400 planetary assistance organisation points successful the Palestinian territory with conscionable 4 of its hubs. Those hubs are tally by equipped U.S. backstage information contractors, and the Israeli miliary controls entree to them.

All established humanitarian agencies person refused to enactment with the GHF, saying it forces Palestinians to dislocate and trek for miles to scope its hubs and that it violates basal humanitarian principles, but the Trump medication announced precocious past week its archetypal nationalist enactment for the group: $30 cardinal successful funding.

The State Department wouldn't say, erstwhile that backing was announced, if the funds had already been transferred to GHF, oregon which U.S. authorities relationship they would travel from.

The GHF has declined to respond to aggregate questions from CBS News astir its connections with the U.S. and Israeli governments and its funding, and it had, until this week, besides declined to beryllium interviewed by CBS News astir its operations. On Tuesday, however, the GHF's director, American evangelical reverend Johnnie Moore, a erstwhile advisor to President Trump connected spiritual matters, agreed to an interrogation via Zoom.

Rev. Johnnie Moore, spokesperson for the Trump evangelical advisory board, successful Washington, DC.

Our archetypal question was astir the reports CBS News has received since GHF began its operations, straight from doctors and eyewitnesses, that Israeli soldiers person repeatedly opened occurrence connected unarmed civilians trying to scope its assistance hubs.

"I bash not privation to diminish these reports, but we can't power what happens extracurricular our organisation sites," Moore told CBS News.

Asked however galore much radical would dice earlier GHF changed the mode it operates, Moore called the framing of the question "inappropriate," and said the group's "whole crushed for existing is to springiness nutrient to these radical truthful they tin live."

He repeated his erstwhile calls — and those of the White House — for the United Nations and its assorted humanitarian agencies to articulation GHF's efforts successful Gaza.

"We've said again and again to the U.N., to the WFP (World Food Program), articulation america successful this effort," Moore said, earlier asking CBS News' correspondent, "with respect, wherefore don't you articulation us? I'm asking you to assistance america tally the cognition if you deliberation determination is simply a amended mode to bash this."

Asked however GHF has been capable to verify who precisely receives the assistance it provides connected the crushed — which Moore has stressed does not scope Hamas — the reverend responded with a question: "Do you person thing affirmative to accidental astir what we are doing?"

"Do you deliberation it is acceptable that radical dice each time trying to entree aid? Is determination not a amended mode to bash this?" CBS News asked again.

"We person made a determination that it is worthy moving successful a warfare zone," Moore said, "as deadly arsenic it is, due to the fact that Gazans merit food."

Moore would not respond to questions astir however GHF operates oregon who funds the organization, beside the $30 cardinal publication announced this week by the Trump administration.

Tucker Reals

Tucker Reals is CBSNews.com's overseas editor, based successful the CBS News London bureau. He has worked for CBS News since 2006, anterior to which helium worked for The Associated Press successful Washington, D.C., and London.

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