It has been an extraordinary day of enormous emotion and high drama but, for all that, we have only witnessed the first phase of the Trump peace plan - and in many ways that is the easy bit.

The first phase envisaged a ceasefire, the release of hostages, the release of many more Palestinians held in Israeli jails, a partial Israeli military withdrawal, and aid starting to flood back into Gaza .

Job done, although the aid bit is still a work in progress.

Trump and his team ripped up one of the golden rules of Middle Eastern negotiating to pull this off, no deal until a final deal.

They have turned that on its head, pushing for a breakthrough on what can be agreed on, and then committing to sorting out the rest later.

And it's worked in the sense that it has delivered a spectacular

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