earlier i spoke to eyal mayroz, who's a senior lecturer in peace and conflict studies at the universitys thoughts on a potential truce deal between israel and hamas. it is difficult to know because at the moment the americans, the egyptians and the qataris are all signalling a positive outlook on the future of the negotiations. but we hear both from israel and likely from the hamas, even though they have not released their official response yet, that the gaps are still very much existing on the israeli side, the government, the right wing government is objecting to quite a number of the proposals. hamas is also likely to continue to insist on safety for it, for its leadership and either a permanent ceasefire or if they can't get that, at least a very prolonged one, which the israeli government is is very reluctant to provide unless they get a lot in return. and even then, the radical elements in the government may topple netanyahu's rule. and this is something netanyahu is very much afraid. yeah. if we can stay with netanyahu a bit. he has said that he will not accept hamas demands over