Emily Fang

Others want to live, he says, and demolish them.

And even as Hamas and Israeli negotiators head to Egypt this week to hammer out details of a potential end to the war, for near-Oz residents, where nine of their community members remain hostages in Gaza, they say the healing has yet to begin.

Emily Fang and Peer News, near Oz.

The return of the hostages is the first step in a U.S.

peace plan.

Netanyahu said the second phase of a peace plan would see Hamas disarmed voluntarily or by force if needed, something Hamas has not explicitly agreed to.

And at a weekly anti-war protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday, regular demonstrators like Gabriela Goldschmidt worried negotiations would fall through again.

Yes, there is hope, but it's a very cautious hope.

because we don't know what kinds of tricks Netanyahu has in his pocket.

And she fretted that her government would find a reason to end another ceasefire.

Emily Fang, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

Israel's Navy and these convoy organizers say Israel's boarded and detained about 40 boats so far.

This is a fast-evolving situation.

Israel says they're going to deport all the activists it detains.

They've repeatedly said they consider this flotilla a Hamas-linked provocation.

But

This is still a PR fiasco for Israel.

Many of the points in the proposal have been raised before.

For an example, an end to the war in exchange for all the hostages returned to Israel.

What is slightly new is Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, could lead an international consortium to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza at first.