“There needs to be an end. There must be an end.”

For Ameer living in a tent in Khan Younis, Gaza, a ceasefire can’t come soon enough.

“I’ve seen how people change, because their instinct for survival is growing stronger.”

Emma Graham-Harrison, the Guardian’s chief Middle East correspondent, explains to Nosheen Iqbal that a long-awaited deal between Israel and Hamas will probably centre on a 60-day ceasefire, the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, the entry of aid into Gaza, and the withdrawal of Israeli forces.

The extent of that Israeli withdrawal is, however, a major sticking point and the pair discuss how plans for a “humanitarian city” in southern Gaza, controlled by the Israelis and populated by the Palestinians, are a major obstacle to the negotiations. Graham-Harrison also outlines the desperate conditions being faced by people in Gaza, but suggests that with the Israeli courts and Knesset about to break for summer a ceasefire deal may be imminent.

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A Palestinian boy waits for hot food from a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Sunday. The World Food Programme says nearly one in three people in the territory do not eat for days at a stretch and thousands are 'on the verge of catastrophic hunger'. Photograph: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Shutterstock