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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a “last-minute crisis” with Hamas was holding up Israeli approval of a long-awaited ceasefire that would pause the fighting in the Gaza Strip and release dozens of hostages. It was not yet clear if Netanyahu’s statements merely reflected jockeying to keep his fractious coalition together or whether the deal was at risk. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, FRANCE 24’s Carys Garland welcomes Jean-Loup Samaan, Author, Senior Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore, non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and Associate Researcher at the Institut Montaigne.