White House envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to travel to the Middle East on Sunday night to follow up on the implementation of the deal to end the war in Gaza, a U.S. official and a source with knowledge of the trip told Axios.

Why it matters: The implementation of the first phase of the deal was mostly successful with 20 live Israeli hostages released, close to 2000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees released, an initial Israeli withdrawal from large parts of Gaza and a ceasefire. • At the same time the deal is still extremely fragile and tensions have been growing over Israeli claims that Hamas has been slow-walking the return of the bodies of hostages. • The situation on the ground is still highly volatile with Hamas conducting deadly retaliations against its rivals as it tries to

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