It is being reported this morning by Israel that Hamas is trying to change the ceasefire deal and that the Israel government will not meet to approve the deal until Hamas stops trying to extort them:

JPOST – “Hamas is reneging on the understandings and creating a last-minute crisis that is preventing an agreement,” the Prime Minister’s Office announced on Thursday morning.

“Hamas is retracting explicit understandings that were agreed upon with the mediators and Israel in a last-minute attempt at extortion.”

“Israel will not set a date for a Cabinet or government meeting until the mediators announce that Hamas has approved all details of the agreement,” the statement concluded.

Jerusalem Post is reporting that Hamas is trying to back out of the hostage agreement:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a conference call with the negotiating team in Doha, who reported on last-minute attempts by Hamas to back out of the hostage agreement, the Prime Minister’s Office announced in a statement on Thursday.

“Contrary to an explicit clause that gives Israel veto power over the release of mass murderers who are symbols of terror, Hamas demands to dictate the identity of these terrorists,” the statement said.

“The Prime Minister instructed the negotiating team to stand firm on the agreed understandings and to outright reject Hamas’s last-minute extortion attempts.”

Earlier in the evening, the Prime Minister’s Office indicated that some unresolved issues remain in the framework but expressed hope that these would be finalized overnight. The Security Cabinet is scheduled to meet at 11 a.m. to give final approval to the agreement.

The first phase of the deal will last 42 days, and implementation of the agreement will begin two or three days after its signing.

The IDF will withdraw from the Netzarim corridor and all populated areas of the enclave to about 700 meters from the border, except in five specified areas, where it will be 400 meters.

The IDF will reportedly reduce its presence on the Philadelphia corridor and then withdraw from it completely over the course of the first 50 days.

Withdrawing from the Philadelphia corridor is a horrible idea. In fact withdrawing from Gaze period is a horrible idea. Israel believes nearly half of the hostages are dead at this point and honestly, this deal should be dead. This is the wrong way to free the hostages.