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A Hamas official has spoken to CNN about the remaining sticking points that have prevented a ceasefire deal being secured by negotiators.

They include Hamas’ demands that Israel withdraw from the Philadelphi corridor, the Israeli military’s code name for the 9-mile-long (14km) strip of land along the Gaza-Egypt border, and commit to a permanent ceasefire rather than a temporary halt to the war, which Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to wage until “total victory”.