Hello and welcome to NewsHare. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.

I'm Tim Franks. It feels like pretty much every day, in fact, sometimes several times every day.

We get new rumblings about how talks on a ceasefire in Gaza are going, that there's a new proposal that one side,

Israel or Hamas, has accepted or rejected it or is trying to tweak it, that X is in the room and

that could mean Y. We don't, to be honest, bring you every twist and turn as much as anything,

because there are so many suggestions of progress which then don't

really amount to much. Just remember that it took a year to negotiate the second ceasefire,

which itself collapsed after two months back in March, as Israel launched heavy strikes across

Gaza and began its 11-week blockade of aid into the territory. So why talk about the latest

proposals now? Well, it's for two

reasons that there seems to be particularly intense diplomatic activity and movement right now,

and that, of course, the situation in Gaza is so extreme with the killing and the displacement

and the hunger to go with the agony in Israel for the families of the 58 remaining hostages.

Among them is Omri Miran, who was abducted from Nahal Oz during the Hamas attacks on October

the 7th, 2023.

Moshe Emilio Lavi is Omri's brother-in-law.

I recognize that Hamas is not a good faith actor and I recognize the complexity in

reaching an agreement with them. I'm still going to be hopeful, hopeful for my sister and my nieces,

hopeful for all the families of hostages. I want this to end and I hope will reach a resolution.

Hamas needs to understand that for the sake of the people in Gaza,

and for the sake of the future of cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians,

they have to let the hostages go, they have to dismantle and leave the Gaza Strip

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