The Israeli occupation army announced in late May that it took control of the Philadelphia Corridor, a 14-kilometre strip that runs all along the Gaza-Egypt border, a move denounced by Egypt, which insists on a complete Israeli withdrawal from the area designated to be a buffer zone per the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty.

Netzarim Corridor is an area established by the Israeli army to separate the north and the south of Gaza during the initial months of the war.

After two days of talks in Doha, the US and fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar announced they put forward a "bridging proposal" to close the remaining gaps between the warring sides.

However, Israeli Channel 12 reported Sunday that "the proposal does not include a continued Israeli presence along the border between Gaza and Egypt, nor a mechanism to prevent the return of Hamas fighters to northern Gaza," remaining as two key disputed points since the negotiations started, according to officials familiar with the talks.

Negotiations involving the US and Israel are set to continue in Cairo on Sunday.

Only if Israel and the US can agree on terms on these two key issues will Egypt and Qatar press Hamas to take the deal, according to the TV channel.

It added that Netanyahu is expected to hold a fateful discussion with Israel’s negotiators and security chiefs, focused on these issues before Sunday’s talks get underway in the Egyptian capital.

Hamas has made clear that it will not agree with Israel’s demands for a lasting occupation military presence along the Gaza-Egypt border and the line bisecting Gaza where Israeli forces would search Palestinians returning to their homes.

Israel claims both are needed to prevent fighters from rearming and returning to the north.

However, Israel showed flexibility in retreating from the Philadelphia Corridor, and a meeting between Egyptian and Israeli military officials was scheduled for next week to agree on a withdrawal mechanism, two Egyptian officials told AP anonymously.

List of detainees
 

The proposed deal, which Biden outlined on 31 May but attributed to Israel, would freeze fighting for an initial six weeks and lead to the release of Israeli captives and Palestinian prisoners.

The Channel 12 report revealed that the US proposal specified the number and names of captives who would be released in the plan's first phase.

Women and female soldiers will be released first as well as living captives. The proposal also included the names of Palestinian prisoners who would be released in exchange for every Israeli captive.

The list of Palestinian prisoners includes the names of 47 persons who were released in the deal for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and were recently re-imprisoned.