Today, Israel said it accepted a new draft of a U.S. peace plan in Gaza, but Hamas so far has not provided an official reply.

The deal would pause the war for 60 days, but not permanently end it as Hamas is demanding.

Nick Schifrin is in New York now and joins us with more.

So, Nick, what's in this proposal and could it be accepted

by both sides? Well, Jeff, as you said, Israel has accepted this proposal, which would be a 60-day

ceasefire of the war in Gaza. Hamas would release five living hostages the first day and five

more living hostages after the first week. Hamas would also return the bodies

of 18 dead Israeli hostages. In exchange, Israel would release thousands of Palestinian detainees,

including more than 100 serving life sentences. But this would not, as you said, end the war

or require Israel to withdraw from Gaza. And those are the main sticking points.

A senior U.S. official tells me tonight, Jeff, that Hamas continues to demand that Israel

and the U.S. guarantee that the war will not start after these 60 days because Israel restarted

the war after the last ceasefire, despite Hamas' expectations that

the war would end.

There's another draft, Jeff, that would end the war and would release all the hostages.

But this official tells me that that is not something Israel supports, and it's not the

basis of the draft that we're talking about today.

Finally, this draft would also restart some UN food aid into Gaza, but not as much as Hamas wants.

Well, tell us more about that. How important is that humanitarian clause?

Well, it's incredibly important, so this clause would allow more UN aid, but at the same time it would not end the Gaza humanitarian

fund, the U.S. and Israeli-backed initiative that even today, once again, we saw scenes

of chaos of desperate Palestinians trying to get boxes of food.

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