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Monday, August 19, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Monday, August 19, 2024
Israel’s mid-level negotiating team returns to Israel from Cairo
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
A digital counter in Tel Aviv displays the days and hours that hostages seized in southern Israel by Palestinian terrorists during the October 7 attack have spent in Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, August 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Israel’s mid-level negotiating team has returned to Israel from Cairo, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel.
The lead negotiators, headed by Mossad chief David Barnea and Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, are expected in Cairo later this week for a summit meant to try to hammer out a hostage-for-ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.
