Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is tapping the brakes on claims of success by President Biden, President-elect Trump and partners in the Middle East that a ceasefire and hostage release deal has been achieved to pause 15 months of war.

Netanyahu has so far delayed a vote in Israel’s security Cabinet to accept the ceasefire agreement, pushing back against what his office said is Hamas’s demands around Palestinian prisoners set for release from Israeli jails.

A senior Biden administration official told reporters in a call Wednesday night that “Israel agreed to the prisoners who will also be released.”

The potential gaps call into question the finality of a ceasefire and hostage deal that negotiators hoped would start by Sunday.

U.S., Egyptian and Qatari mediators are meeting Thursday in Doha, focused on the terms of the implementation of the deal, a senior administration official said, including humanitarian provisions, the ceasefire terms and the specific hostages and prisoners going free.

An Israeli official told The Hill that there are still questions on which Palestinian prisoners are going to be released, where they will go, and whether they will be exiled somewhere other than the Gaza Strip.

“I don’t believe it will stop the deal, we’re not there,” the Israeli official said. “It’s being........

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