Displaced Palestinian children were jumping and clapping their hands with joy in a camp in Al-Mawasi on January 13, in what a Palestinian journalist described as celebrations for the progress being made on the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.Footage filmed by Palestinian journalist Mahmoud Bassam shows a group of children and an adult clapping their hands and shouting with joy.According to machine translation, Bassam wrote on the footage: “In the displacement camps today, there is a small joy amidst the pain, signs of hope appear with the progress of the negotiations. Oh God, complete for us the great joy of completing the deal and ending the war. Gather the scattered, return the absent, and grant this country lasting peace and tranquility. We await the day when the pages of pain will be turned, and new pages filled with life and dignity will be written.”According to news reports, Qatar, a key negotiator in the deal, said on January 14 that a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was at its “closest point” yet. Credit: Mahmoud Bassam via Storyful