A senior US administration official said Wednesday that 90 per cent of the terms of a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal have been agreed on, though critical issues related to a prisoner exchange and the Philadelphi Corridor remain unresolved, Anadolu reports.

“Ninety percent of this deal has been agreed, and it’s based on terms that even Hamas had in their own proposal,” the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters.

The official said that the deal, which has been under negotiation for months, consists of 18 paragraphs, 14 of which are “finished.”

“One paragraph has a very technical fix, and the other three paragraphs have to do with the exchange of prisoners to hostages, which even Hamas’s own text of July 2 explicitly says has to still be negotiated,” the official added.

The official emphasized that phase one of the three-phase deal has never included a “full withdrawal of Israeli forces.”