President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed a last-minute hostage deal that would see all of the remaining Israeli hostages released in exchange for ending the war in Gaza. Hamas has yet to accept it.

The proposal was conveyed to Hamas via civilian Gershom Baskin, a civilian and columnist whose interest in Israeli-Palestinian peace led him to develop contacts that, in turn, led to a deal for hostage Gilad Shalit in 2011.

That deal has since been widely criticized, since many prominent Hamas leaders were among the more than 1,000 convicted terrorists that Israel exchanged for Shalit — including October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar.

Nevertheless, with a major Israeli offensive on Gaza City looming, and hundreds of thousands of protesters in the streets of Tel Aviv demonstrating f

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