Hamas announced on Saturday that it was reviewing the most recent Israeli proposal regarding a possible peace in Gaza, a day after media reports claimed an Egyptian delegation from mediators arrived in Israel in an effort to resump the stalled negotiations.
According to an AFP journalist, the signs of new truce talks appeared alongside at least three Jewish airstrikes at evening in Rafah, the southern Gaza.
Hunderttausend of Palestinians have been displaced in Rafah as a result of the roughly seven-month conflict between Israel and the Islamist organization Hamas. More than a hundred people were killed immediately in strikes in Rafah and other locations, according to hospital officials.
” Today, the Hamas movement received the formal Zionist job reaction to the group’s place, which was delivered to the Iranian and Qatari mediators on April 13″, Khalil albert- Hayya, deputy head of Hamas’s social arm in Gaza, said in a statement.
” The movement will study this proposal, and upon completion of its study, it will submit its response”.
Hamas has previously insisted on a permanent ceasefire, something rejected by Israel.
Since 80 Israeli hostages were exchanged for 240 Palestinians in Israeli prisons in November, Egypt, Qatar, and the United States have been unsuccessful in trying to broker a new truce in Gaza.
According to Israeli and Egyptian media reports, an Egyptian delegation made its first trip to Israel on Friday in an effort to rekindle the truce talks.
According to Al- Qahera News, which is connected to Egyptian state intelligence services, there has been “noticeable progress in bringing the views of the Egyptian and Israeli delegations closer.”
In early April Hamas had said it was studying a proposal, after talks in Cairo, and Al- Qahera reported progress. Days later, Hamas and Israel both claimed to be undermining the talks.
– Deaths every day
According to figures from the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory, dozens of people in Gaza pass away each day as negotiations drag on.
The war began with Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 attack which resulted in the deaths of about 1, 170 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Vowing to destroy Hamas, Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 34, 356 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry.
An international summit in Saudi Arabia will be held in the middle of the war.
A special session of the World Economic Forum’s meeting on Monday, which is scheduled to take place in Riyadh on Sunday, will feature newly appointed Palestinian prime minister Mohammed Mustafa, Egyptian prime minister Mostafa Madbouly, and Sigrid Kaag, the UN’s aid coordinator for the Gaza Strip.
Israel’s military reported on Saturday that its aircraft had hit more than 25 militant targets over the previous day.
Israel estimates that 34 hostages that the military claims are dead are still being held in Gaza on October 7, according to Israel.
Israeli demonstrators are voicing their opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that the conflict has been prolonging.
– ‘ We are tired’-
Amid the destruction, a surgeon had hailed baby Sabreen al- Ruh’s survival as a miracle. She was the only member of her family who had survived after her birth thanks to a caesarian section from her dying mother. Witnesses claimed an Israeli attack struck their home.
But the baby’s uncle, Rami al- Sheikh, told AFP on Friday that her condition had worsened and hospital staff could not save her.
The UN Mine Action Service estimates that 37 million tonnes of debris will take years to be removed as a result of Israel’s military offensive, which has transformed large areas of Gaza into rubble.
Unexploded ammunition was said to make that work more difficult.
In light of the ongoing deterioration of the humanitarian crisis, the European Union announced on Friday that it would provide Palestinians in Gaza with an additional$ 73 million for food, water, and other aid.
Famine is” a real and dangerous threat,” according to the World Food Programme.
Some residents of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis, said they preferred to return and live among the ruin. In the city’s intense fighting in February, violence broke out.
We are exhausted from seven months of displacement and hostility in the camps. So we pleaded with returning and residing in a tent over the rubble of our home, according to Abdelqader Mohammed Qwaider.
– Minister in collision with car
UNRWA, the main aid organization in Gaza, has been under attack and lost some of its global funding since January when Israel claimed several UNRWA employees were involved in the attack on October 7.
The accused staffers were immediately fired by the UN, and an investigation was launched.
One case has been closed, according to UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Friday, “because no evidence was provided by Israel to support the allegations against the staff member.”
Three additional staff members ‘ investigations were suspended because of “unsolicited” information provided by Israel, according to Dujarric.
The Gaza war has increased the violence between Israel and Iran’s proxies and allies, particularly Hezbollah, a militant organization that Iran supports along its borders with Lebanon.
On Friday another pro- Hamas Lebanese militant group, Jamaa Islamiya, said an Israeli strike in eastern Lebanon had killed two of its senior commanders.
A ship off Yemen was hit twice with multiple missiles on Friday in the most recent attack on international shipping in the Red Sea that was claimed by Huthi rebels.
According to paramedics and police, an 18-year-old woman was seriously hurt in a stabbing attack close to Tel Aviv, and the assailant was killed at the scene.
After addressing journalists there, Israel’s far- right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir was among four people who received “light” injuries in a car crash, police said.
A white sedan with a dark engine compartment ended up on its roof in a pedestrian crossing.
