Sec. Blinken is running around the Mid East trying to get anyone to accept his deal.

Hamas has responded to the US-backed proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, saying it wants some amendments to the deal. Neither Israel nor Hamas have publicly committed to the plan.

The United States had been hoping for an outright acceptance of the deal by both sides. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has spent the last few days travelling across the Middle East to promote it. On Monday, the UN Security Council endorsed the plan – calling on both Israel and Hamas to enact it immediately, without conditions.

We take a closer look at the original deal that Blinken is trying to get all sides to sign up to. For more on this, we talk to Simon Mabon, Middle East analyst at Lancaster University. And we speak to our correspondent Rebecca Ritters in Jerusalem.