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It's Tuesday, February 11th.
I'm Alex Osola for the Wall Street Journal.
This is the PM edition of what's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.
We're starting off this evening with international news.
In Gaza, the ceasefire is seeming more fragile.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is demanding that Hamas release three Israeli hostages at the originally scheduled time by noon Saturday or face a return to war.
Hamas set off a rupture in the talks yesterday by saying it would postpone the release of the hostages to protest delays in deliveries of humanitarian goods.
In Israel, demonstrators in support of continuing the deal blocked a main thoroughfare from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.
People are dying slowly but surely.
They are desperate to get out of the underworld that Hamas built and we have to save them while we can.
President Trump said he didn't think Hamas would meet the deadline and warned the militant group that he would, quote, let hell break out, end quote, if the hostages weren't returned Saturday.
The Israeli military issued a directive today to deploy more troops to the Gaza border area.
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