Cairo: Hamas Awaiting response from Israel ceasefire Two officials from the militant Islamist group said on Sunday that the group had accepted key parts of a U.S. plan to end the nine-month war in Gaza, five days after the group accepted the plan.
“We have left the response to the mediators and are awaiting a response from the occupying forces,” one of two Hamas officials told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The three-phase plan for the Palestinian enclave was proposed by US President Biden at the end of May and is currently being coordinated. Qatar and Egypt. The goal is to end the war and free some 120 Israelis hostage controlled by Hamas.
Another Palestinian official with knowledge of ceasefire deliberations said Israel was negotiating with Qatar.
“They have discussed Hamas’s response with Hamas and have promised to provide them with an Israeli response within days,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters on Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said negotiation It will continue this week, but no detailed timetable has been given.
Hamas, which controls Gaza, has abandoned a key demand that Israel first commit to a permanent ceasefire before signing a deal. Instead, Hamas sources told Reuters on Saturday that talks would be allowed to achieve this goal in a six-week first phase as the talks are being held privately.
A Palestinian official familiar with the peace efforts said that if Israel accepted the offer, a framework agreement could be reached and an end to the war.
CIA Director William Burns will travel to Qatar this week for talks, a person familiar with the matter said.
According to official Israeli data, nine months ago on October 7, militants led by Hamas attacked southern Israel from Gaza, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages. This was the worst attack in Israel’s history. incident triggered this conflict.
According to health officials in Gaza, more than 38,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military attacks and much of the coastal enclave has been reduced to rubble.
UNRWA, the Palestinian agency for Palestine, described the situation as increasingly tragic, posting on
protests in israel
Protesters took to the streets across Israel on Sunday to pressure the government to reach a deal to bring back the hostages still being held in Gaza.
They blocked rush-hour traffic at major intersections across the country, picketed politicians’ homes and briefly set fire to tires on the main Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway before police cleared the road.
Meanwhile, fighting in the Gaza Strip continues to rage, with northern Israel coming under rocket attack from Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah.
Air raid warnings sent residents of 24 Israeli towns fleeing to shelters. One person was seriously injured, police said. Hezbollah said it fired rockets at a military base.
In Gaza, Palestinian health officials said an Israeli military attack on Sunday killed at least 15 people.
An Israeli airstrike on a house in the town of Zawayda in central Gaza killed at least six people and injured many others, while an airstrike on a house in western Gaza killed six people, health officials said.
Tanks intensified attacks on areas in central and northern Rafah on Egypt’s southern border. Health officials there said they had found the bodies of three Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in the east of the city.
Israeli forces killed 30 Palestinian gunmen in close combat and air strikes in Rafah over the past day, the military said on Sunday.
The military said its forces killed several Palestinian gunmen and recovered weapons and explosives in Shejaya, an eastern suburb of Gaza City.
Armed factions of Hamas and Islamic Jihad said militants attacked Israeli forces with anti-tank rockets and mortars at multiple locations in the Gaza Strip.
“We have left the response to the mediators and are awaiting a response from the occupying forces,” one of two Hamas officials told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The three-phase plan for the Palestinian enclave was proposed by US President Biden at the end of May and is currently being coordinated. Qatar and Egypt. The goal is to end the war and free some 120 Israelis hostage controlled by Hamas.
Another Palestinian official with knowledge of ceasefire deliberations said Israel was negotiating with Qatar.
“They have discussed Hamas’s response with Hamas and have promised to provide them with an Israeli response within days,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters on Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said negotiation It will continue this week, but no detailed timetable has been given.
Hamas, which controls Gaza, has abandoned a key demand that Israel first commit to a permanent ceasefire before signing a deal. Instead, Hamas sources told Reuters on Saturday that talks would be allowed to achieve this goal in a six-week first phase as the talks are being held privately.
A Palestinian official familiar with the peace efforts said that if Israel accepted the offer, a framework agreement could be reached and an end to the war.
CIA Director William Burns will travel to Qatar this week for talks, a person familiar with the matter said.
According to official Israeli data, nine months ago on October 7, militants led by Hamas attacked southern Israel from Gaza, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages. This was the worst attack in Israel’s history. incident triggered this conflict.
According to health officials in Gaza, more than 38,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military attacks and much of the coastal enclave has been reduced to rubble.
UNRWA, the Palestinian agency for Palestine, described the situation as increasingly tragic, posting on
protests in israel
Protesters took to the streets across Israel on Sunday to pressure the government to reach a deal to bring back the hostages still being held in Gaza.
They blocked rush-hour traffic at major intersections across the country, picketed politicians’ homes and briefly set fire to tires on the main Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway before police cleared the road.
Meanwhile, fighting in the Gaza Strip continues to rage, with northern Israel coming under rocket attack from Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah.
Air raid warnings sent residents of 24 Israeli towns fleeing to shelters. One person was seriously injured, police said. Hezbollah said it fired rockets at a military base.
In Gaza, Palestinian health officials said an Israeli military attack on Sunday killed at least 15 people.
An Israeli airstrike on a house in the town of Zawayda in central Gaza killed at least six people and injured many others, while an airstrike on a house in western Gaza killed six people, health officials said.
Tanks intensified attacks on areas in central and northern Rafah on Egypt’s southern border. Health officials there said they had found the bodies of three Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in the east of the city.
Israeli forces killed 30 Palestinian gunmen in close combat and air strikes in Rafah over the past day, the military said on Sunday.
The military said its forces killed several Palestinian gunmen and recovered weapons and explosives in Shejaya, an eastern suburb of Gaza City.
Armed factions of Hamas and Islamic Jihad said militants attacked Israeli forces with anti-tank rockets and mortars at multiple locations in the Gaza Strip.
