The cave remained sealed for hundreds of thousands of years, preserving a remarkable record of life of an early human toolmaking culture that lived in modern-day Israel, Lebanon, and Syria.
The memorandum is meant to stabilize the ceasefire, but it is temporary, with a roughly 60-day window for negotiating the toughest questions that have prevented a deal up until now.
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