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I'm Traci Mumford.
Today's Tuesday, August 13.
Here's what we're covering.
Just two days before ceasefire negotiations are set to resume, the Times has learned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted on conditions that his own negotiators think could be obstacles to a deal.
Together with my colleagues Patrick Kingsley and Adam Rasgon, we got access to documents from the inner circle of the negotiations that clearly shows that during the last rounds of the negotiation, Israel has inserted new terms and additions that are making the negotiation much harder.
Times reporter Ronan Bergman has been covering the talks over how to end the war in Gaza and secure the release of hostages.
He says Israel proposed a deal in May with conditions that were mostly accepted by Hamas, but Netanyahu then added new conditions in a July draft.
The details are sometimes very complicated, but there are at least two sticking points of the new obstacles that were introduced by Israel.
One of them suggests that israeli forces should remain in control of Gaza's southern border.
This is a detail that was not included in Israel's proposal in May, and also it showed less flexibility about allowing displaced Palestinians to return to their home in northern Gaza once fighting is halted.
Many high rank israeli officials with whom we spoke believe that these are new obstacles inserted by Mister Netanyahu to sabotage the deal.
They think that he is afraid that if he agrees to a deal, the ultra right elements of his coalition who already threatened to disassemble the government if a ceasefire is accepted by Israel, they will go for it.