Analysts say significant gaps remain, including over the presence of Israeli troops in Gaza and Hamas’s future role.

Following a deal to end more than a year of fighting between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah, attention has swung back to the battered Gaza Strip, but any hopes of a rapid end to the war there look likely to be dashed.

With a truce between Israel and Hezbollah taking hold, Gazans are losing hope that Israel’s war in the enclave will end anytime soon.