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		</div><p>US president Joe Biden on Friday detailed a three-phase deal proposed by Israel to Hamas militants that he says would lead to the release of remaining hostages in Gaza and could end the grinding, nearly eight-month-old war.</p>
<p>Mr Biden said Hamas is “no longer capable” of carrying out another large-scale attack on Israel, as he urged Israelis and Hamas to come to a deal to release remaining hostages for an extended ceasefire.</p>
<p>Speaking from the White House, he called the proposal “a road map to an enduring ceasefire and the release of all hostages”.</p>
<p>Mr Biden said the first phase of the proposed deal would last for six weeks and would include a “full and complete ceasefire”, a withdrawal of Israeli forces from all populated areas of Gaza and the release of a number of hostages, including women, the elderly and the wounded, in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.</p>
<p>American hostages would be released at this stage, and the remains of hostages who have been killed would be returned to their families.</p>
<p>Humanitarian assistance would surge during the first phase, with 600 trucks being allowed into Gaza each day.</p>
<p>The second phase would include the release of all remaining living hostages, including male soldiers, and Israeli forces would withdraw from Gaza.</p>
<p>“And as long as Hamas lives up to its commitments, the temporary ceasefire would become, in the words of the Israeli proposals, ‘the cessation of hostilities permanently’,” Mr Biden said.</p>
<p>The third phase calls for the start of a major reconstruction of Gaza, which faces decades of rebuilding from devastation caused by the war.</p>
<p>Mr Biden’s remarks came as the Israeli military confirmed that its forces are now operating in central parts of Rafah in its expanding offensive in the southern Gaza city.</p>
<p>Mr Biden called it “a truly decisive moment”.</p>
<p>He added that Hamas said it wants a ceasefire and that an Israeli-phased deal is an opportunity to prove “whether they really mean it”.</p>
<p>Israel launched its war in Gaza after Hamas’ October 7th attack in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted about 250.</p>
<p>Israel says about 100 hostages are still captive in Gaza, along with the bodies of about 30 more.</p>
<p>Ceasefire talks ground to a halt at the beginning of the month after a major push by the US and other mediators to secure a deal, in hopes of averting a planned Israeli invasion of the southern city of Rafah.</p>
<p>The talks were stymied by a central sticking point: Hamas demands guarantees that the war will end and Israeli troops will withdraw from Gaza completely in return for a release of all the hostages, a demand Israel rejects.</p>
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