Gaza/Jerusalem/Cairo/Damascus - Israel and the Palestinian Islamist party Hamas were cautious Tuesday over efforts by a German mediator to conclude indirect negotiations on a prisoner swap. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tuesday that the agreement being brokered by the anonymous German official had yet to be finalized.
"There still isn't any conclusion, any deal, any decision," he told reporters while visiting Israel's national police headquarters in Jerusalem.
If a deal was reached, he would bring it before his cabinet for a vote.
A spokesman for Hamas, the radical movement in de facto control of Gaza, told the German Press Agency
