By Andrew Mills and Nidal al-Mughrabi

DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) -A U.S.-sponsored ceasefire proposal for Gaza on Tuesday was hinging on Hamas's response to the 20-point plan which President Donald Trump has said was "beyond very close" to ending the two-year-old conflict in the enclave.

Mediators Qatar and Egypt shared the document with Hamas late on Monday after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood alongside Trump at the White House and pledged his support for the proposal because he said it met Israel's war aims.

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It was not clear what had allayed Netanyahu's earlier misgivings about elements of the proposal.

Hamas was not involved in the rounds of negotiations in the lead-up to Trump's plan, which calls on the Islamis

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