This Sunday in Egypt, negotiations resumed for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas during Ramadan in Gaza, where Israeli bombings continue and the Palestinian population is on the brink of famine.
Delegations from the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Qatar and USA They are in the Egyptian capital to begin “a new round of negotiations”.
Hamas envoys must decide on a ceasefire proposal presented in Paris at the end of January, a source close to the Palestinian group said.
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This proposal from the mediating countries – Qatar, USA and Egypt – calls for a six-week pause in fighting and the release of 42 hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
The aim is to reach a ceasefire before the start of the Muslim fasting month, which begins on March 10 or 11.
“The Israelis have fundamentally accepted the elements of the deal,” a senior US official said on Saturday, although Israel has not confirmed this.
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A deal could be signed “within 24 or 48 hours” if Israel “accepts Hamas' demands, which include the return of displaced Palestinians to the northern Gaza Strip and an increase in humanitarian aid,” a senior leader of the Islamist movement said , who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Israel, which has not yet announced its intention to join talks in Egypt, is demanding that Hamas provide a list of the 130 hostages still held in Gaza, including more than 30 who are believed to have died in captivity are.
14 members of one family
According to an AFP correspondent, several night bombings were carried out in the southern Gaza Strip towns of Khan Younis and Rafah.
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Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2007, said there had also been artillery fire in Jabaliya, Beit Hanun, Zeitun and Tal Al Hawain the North.
Israeli military operations in retaliation for the Hamas attack in Israel on October 7 have claimed 30,410 lives, mostly civilians, in nearly five months of war in the Gaza Strip, according to the latest tally from the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry.
The attack by Hamas commandos in Israel killed around 1,160 people, mostly civilians. The Islamists kidnapped around 250 people, 130 of whom are still being held in Gaza. The Israeli army announced the death of one of its soldiers in Gaza on Sunday, bringing the number of soldiers killed since ground operations began to 246.
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The Hamas government announced on Sunday that 90 people were killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours, 14 of them members of the same family in a bomb attack that destroyed their home Rafah.
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“Stop, please stop,” the Argentine pope insisted before thousands of people in San Pedro.