Negotiators are to meet in Doha seeking to finalise details of a plan to end the war in Gaza, after US President Joe Biden said a ceasefire and hostage release deal he has championed was on “the brink” of coming to fruition.
Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of a deal yesterday, an official briefed on the negotiations said, after a “breakthrough” in talks attended by envoys of both the outgoing US president and President-elect Donald Trump.
If successful, the ceasefire deal would cap over a year of start-and-stop talks and lead to the biggest release of Israeli hostages since the early days of the conflict, when Hamas freed about half of its…