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Netanyahu holding emergency meeting Tuesday night: Report

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding an emergency meeting with top officials on Tuesday as a Gaza ceasefire deal appears to be imminent - or at least the closest its been to fruition in at least a year. 

Israeli media is reporting that Netanyahu is still trying to overcome opposition to the deal from within his own far-right coalition. 

The Israeli paper Haaretz said it was Steven Witcoff, US President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, who showed up in person at Netanyahu's office on the Sabbath to push him to accept the deal. Witcoff later conveyed to negotiators in Doha that Netanyahu was on board.