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Ammon News - The Israeli war cabinet unanimously approved new guidelines for Israeli negotiators in an effort to revive the talks on a hostage-for-truce deal with Hamas, the Walla new site reports, after the high-level forum convened last night.

The report doesn’t give any details on these guidelines, while a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said only that the war cabinet ordered the negotiating team “to continue negotiations for the return of the hostages.”

At the end of the meeting, the Prime Minister's Office announced that ministers had instructed the Israeli negotiating team to continue talks.

Members of the war cabinet made decisions designed to give negotiators greater room for maneuver, according to sources involved in the discussion.

A foreign diplomat with knowledge of the talks between Israel and Hamas confirmed that despite what he referred to as "a significant impasse," there has been a concerted effort in recent days to get the sides back round the negotiating table and to formulate a creative solution to end the conflict, according to Haaretz