It was a diplomacy-heavy night on the airwaves yesterday, with the nation’s talking heads focusing in on a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks set to soon kick off in Cairo.

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A ceasefire is back on the negotiating table: “An Israeli delegation is set to arrive in Cairo within hours to continue the talks, with US CIA Director William Burns joining the negotiations in the coming days,” Lamees El Hadidi told her viewers (watch, runtime: 4:22) after an unnamed high-level government source revealed the news to Al Qahera News earlier in the day.

“Egyptian efforts have not stopped over the past weeks, despite the repeated stalling of negotiations,” El Hadidi said, explaining that “Cairo and Doha are spearheading a new round of negotiations aimed at reaching a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, as the Israeli assault on the Strip enters its tenth month” (watch, runtime: 7:18).

Israel is standing in the way of a potential agreement: “Hamas has shown flexibility on some agreement terms, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to obstruct the negotiations and hint at prolonging the war,” Palestinian political science professor Ayman Al Raqab called in to tell El Hadidi in a phone interview.

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