By Steven Scheer and Nidal al-Mughrabi

JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -U.S. mediators are meeting Israel's prime minister on Monday with attention turning to the second, far more complex, phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal and the immediate problem of a standoff over a group of Hamas fighters still holed up in tunnels.

The meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes a month after Washington and regional states pressed Israel and Hamas to a truce after two years of devastating war.

However, any progress in Trump's ceasefire plan will not only require both sides to agree on issues that have foiled previous peacemaking efforts, but also to resolve the immediate stalemate over the trapped Hamas fighters.

TRAPPED FIGHTERS AS TEST CASE

There are around 200 fighters in the tunnels under Rafah in the Gaza zone still controlled by Israel's military, with........

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