Mediator Qatar has handed Israel and Hamas a “final” draft of a ceasefire and hostage release agreement designed to end the war in Gaza, an official briefed on the negotiations told Reuters. A breakthrough was reached in Doha after midnight following talks between Israel’s spy chiefs, president-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy and Qatar’s Prime Minister, the official said.

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