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Leading international pleas for restraint. Israel and hamas are now looking at fresh proposals on the table at talks in cairo aimed at securing a truce in gaza and a Hostage Release deal. Our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet is injerusalem. Lets cross to her live for the latest on the ground. Eugenics injerusalem, eugenics in jerusalem, where eugenics injerusalem, where there is much speculation here about what is much speculation here about what is the signal being sent by israel. As it announced yesterday, it will now be withdrawing all of its forces from Southern Gaza, except for a brigade which is maintaining a corridor now dividing the strip into. This is a new chapter in the war, or is it simply pause . A moment for the troops in the south to rest from that aberration in the last corner of gaza, in rafah, and the primacy Benjamin Netanyahu has already said it will have to be carried out if israel wants to achieve the aim of destroying hamas. He and jerusalem this mor
been slated for a couple of days and their timetable has been fairly strict throughout this, but there is plenty of room for manoeuvre. they don t normally sit on a friday but i think they are expecting to speak to him. not that many people behind me today, but we have seen over the past four weeks, we have seen protesters, plenty of media, so we can expect all of that tomorrow as well, but his testimony crucially important, and he has received plenty of criticism from civil servants, advisers, scientific advisers, to name but a few, who said he showed nuclear levels of confidence in dealing with the crisis and he will certainly want to face some of that criticism down. but interesting, yesterday, we had from michael gove, the chancellor of the duchy of is that, that brilliant name in british politics, which basically means he was in charge of the cabinet office, and he was pretty defensive of matt hancock, who he said showed wisdom and foresight in many of the decisions he h