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after that meeting, they have come out and spoken to reporters, our team in romalia tell me -- in factt was john kerry along with the palestinian negotiate who spoke. he says we must find a balance between the ceasefire and the removal of the blockage on gaza. they are trying to put together a diplomatic jigsaw with lots and lots of players involved in the region. but the main proposal to try to get hamas to deal with a ceasefire was to try to deal with the underlying issues as well as trying to get the ceasefire in place as quickly as possible. hamas says it wants a ceasefire only when the underlying issues were addressed. the compromise was the idea that you can have a ceasefire and then straight away, you would have negotiations between the two sides. i have spoken to one source, and i'm not going to tell you which delegation this is from, but this is someone who i am confident knows what was going on, and i'm told that whole idea of a ceasefire and then intense negotiations on the underlying issues has had a bit of a hiccup, because the israeli side are not keen on that, they want