CNN - A prospective hostage and ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas is 90% completed but disputes remain over the exchange of prisoners for hostages and the redeployment of Israeli forces in Gaza, according to a senior US official. US officials, with Qatar and Egypt, have for months worked to broker a deal to bring an end to the nearly yearlong conflict. Talks remain ongoing but Hamas said this week that militants guarding Israeli hostages in the buildings and tunnels of Gaza had "new instructions" to kill them if Israeli troops closed in. Meanwhile, an Israeli newspaper reported Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu derailed a potential hostage deal in July by introducing a raft of new demands.
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