Israel and Hamas are the closest they have been to a ceasefire in Gaza.

That's the word from senior U.S. and Israeli officials, as well as a Hamas statement.

Nick Schifrin is following all of this and joins us now.

So Nick, what's in the deal and how close is it to being done?

Regional and U.S. officials tell me, Jeff, as you just said, that they are as close as they have ever been since they started negotiating this deal,

which would begin with phase one and a six-week ceasefire, during which Hamas would release 33 Israeli hostages,

women, children, elderly, and or the wounded, including five female soldiers.

Israel would release nearly a thousand Palestinian detainees, 30 detainees for every civilian hostage

that Hamas releases, 50 for every single soldier hostage that Hamas releases. And then Israel would also

facilitate the arrival of 600 humanitarian aid trucks every day. The UN said that number today

was 70, and Israeli forces would leave

populated areas. And let me show you how that leaving of populated areas would work on the map.

Israel would leave the corridor, the Netserim corridor. You see that in purple that splits Gaza

in two, but would remain on the edges of Gaza, including the Philadelphia corridor that separates Gaza

from Egypt. Now, Jeff, how close are they? A regional official tell me today that Hamas actually

accepted the deal, but they were still working on, quote, the map and implementation. Secretary

of St. Anthony Blinken said they were on the brink of a deal. The final issues officials tell me are these, that

where exactly, literally to the meter that Israeli forces will be deployed along the border

of Gaza, and also the names and the sequencing of the Palestinian detainees, many hundreds

of which are convicted of terrorism and face life sentences. So if there is a deal and if it holds,

what comes after those initial six weeks? There's a phase two where you'd see another round

of Israeli hostages released, another round of Palestinian detainees released and a full Israeli

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