President Trump says Israel has agreed to a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and urged Hamas to accept it. This comes ahead of a Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the White House next week.
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Hadeel al-Shalchi is an editor with Weekend Edition. Prior to joining NPR, Al-Shalchi was a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press and covered the Arab Spring from Tunisia, Bahrain, Egypt, and Libya. In 2012, she joined Reuters as the Libya correspondent where she covered the country post-war and investigated the death of Ambassador Chris Stephens. Al-Shalchi also covered the front lines of Aleppo in 2012. She is fluent in Arabic.
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