US Middle East envoy to meet Netanyahu to discuss ceasefire deal

US President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to secure a captives deal, an Israeli official has told Reuters.

A second Israeli official told the news agency some progress had been made in the indirect talks between Israel and Hamas, which Egypt, Qatar and the US have mediated.

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