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And notes the Israeli president has urged Netanyahu and prosecutors to halt the trial and strike a deal.

Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

Phase one was halting violence, exchanging bodies and boosting humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Phase two is disarming Hamas, deploying international troops and governing post-war.

Hamas's handover of the remains of Hadar Goldin, an Israeli soldier killed in a previous Gaza war,

could impact phase two negotiations over some 200 Hamas fighters.

They're believed to be holed up in Rafa in southern Gaza.

Israel's been demanding they surrender or be killed.

The U.S.

floated the idea of freeing them if they agree to disarm and in exchange for Goldin's body.

As for an international security force, Turkey has been involved in talks, but an Israeli government spokesperson says there will be no Turkish boots on the ground.

Lauren Freyer, NPR News, Tel Aviv.

This was Mohammed Ibrahim's 10th hearing in an Israeli military court.

His father, Zahar Ibrahim, says it adjourned without a plea bargain or trial date.

The Ibrahims are Palestinian-American.

They split their time between the Tampa area and the occupied West Bank, where Israeli soldiers took Mohammed from his bed last February.

In Israeli prison, he's not allowed family visits nor phone calls.

Court documents show he faces up to 20 years for stone-throwing under security rules imposed after the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023.

Members of Congress have called for his release in a letter that says he may have, quote, signs of torture.

The State Department says the U.S.