The ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which rules in the Gaza Strip, which came into force on November 24th, was extended at the last minute on Thursday morning, the two warring parties said. Follow the latest news on the conflict.
07:06
Qatar confirms ceasefire extension
The ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas will be extended by one day until Friday, Qatar, the mediating country, confirmed on Thursday, as a six-day humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip came to an end. “The Palestinian and Israeli sides have agreed to extend the humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip for another day,” Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said in a statement.
Hamas had already announced a one-day extension of the ceasefire early on Thursday, while the Israeli army hinted at a continuation of the ceasefire by continuing negotiations. The extension of the ceasefire comes under the same conditions as the other pauses, namely the cessation of military activities and the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, Majed al-Ansari explained. He added that the ceasefire would take place “within the framework of joint mediation by Qatar, the Arab Republic of Egypt and the United States.”
07:03
ATTACK IN EAST JERUSALEM
According to Israeli emergency services, there was a gun attack in East Jerusalem in which six people were injured, some seriously.
06:50
NEW “LIST” OF HOSTAGES
The Israeli government announced on Thursday that it had received a new “list” of names of women and children held hostage in the Gaza Strip who will be released later today in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, according to the ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas should.
“Under the terms of the agreement, Israel recently received a list [de noms] women and children,” said a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, without specifying the number of hostages to be released.
06:25
EXTENDED WEAPONS RUIT
The ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which rules in the Gaza Strip, which came into force on November 24th, was extended at the last minute on Thursday morning, the two warring parties said.
The ceasefire was due to expire at 7 a.m. local time (5 a.m. GMT, 6 a.m. in Paris), but fifteen minutes before the deadline, the Israeli army issued a statement saying the “pause in operations” would “continue.” “In view of the efforts of mediators to continue the process of releasing the hostages held in Gaza.” For its part, Hamas said that the ceasefire had been extended for “a seventh day.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Tel Aviv, Israel, early Thursday morning, where he is scheduled to speak with Israeli leaders about the ceasefire with Hamas and continuing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
This is Blinken’s third visit to the Middle East – and his sixth to Israel – since the war began on October 7, sparked by the bloody Hamas attack on Israeli soil that killed more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians . He will meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials in Jerusalem on Thursday. He also has to go to the occupied West Bank.
“In the coming days we will focus on doing everything we can to extend the pause so we can continue to get more hostages out and more help in,” he said on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in Brussels on Wednesday and stressed that the ceasefire had enabled the release of hostages in the hands of Hamas and the massive influx of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, which was besieged by the Israeli army.
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