Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
And we're starting the programme with two wars, two conflicts that are very familiar,
but now two conversations about whether they could both be closer to ending or at least pausing in some form.
In a little while, we'll be turning to Ukraine in the wake of Donald Trump's whirlwind diplomacy.
But first, Gaza.
On Monday,
Hamas said that it had accepted a proposal from Qatari and Egyptian mediators for a 60-day ceasefire.
So the question immediately became, what would Israel's reply be?
Especially given what are widely reported to be the similarities of this proposal to one that was pushed by the US back in May,
and which Israel indicated at the time it could sign up to.
In brief, this proposal envisages a 60-day ceasefire during which half the living hostages,
in other words 10 of them, would be released along with 18 bodies of dead Israelis.
In return, Israel would release almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners,
allow much more aid in, and pull back its army from several locations inside Gaza.
We've been told that it will be Friday before the Israeli government formally responds, but...
Before we came on air, we did get through to the government spokesman,
David Mensah, who had this to say.
Well, I won't speak directly to the proposal.