The Israeli Defense Force says it has taken ‘operational management’ of the Gaza aspect of the Rafah crossing, the primary entry level for support into the area. It comes lower than 24 hours after Hamas mentioned they’d settle for a ceasefire deal drawn up by Egyptian mediators.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson talks to our worldwide affairs editor Dominic Waghorn to discover why Israel rejected the deal, saying it fell "far from meeting" its "core demands", and Aaron David Miller, senior fellow on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former Middle East negotiator underneath Republican and Democratic US administrations.
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