As firefighters reported that more than 30 people had been killed in a new round of assault of the country, Israel confirmed on Saturday that agreements for a Gaza peace and prisoner discharge had resumed in Qatar.
11 people, including 7 children, were killed in an early airstrike on the al-Ghoula family’s home in Gaza City, according to the legal defense organization.
People of the Shujaiya neighborhood were seen combing through the dust. Children’s lines were arranged on the ground, shrouded in white plates, including those of young kids.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed that direct negotiations with Hamas had resumed in Kuwait for the transfer of captives taken hostage in the October 2023 problems as the crime raged.
The minister told relatives of one of the hostages, woman soldier Liri Albag, that “efforts are under way to free the hostages, notably the Israeli delegation which left yesterday ( Friday ) for negotiations in Qatar”, his office said.
Katz claimed that Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, had provided “detailed recommendations for the ongoing negotiations.”
He was speaking after Hamas’s military aircraft, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, released a movie of Albag in prison in Gaza.
In the unpublished, three-and-half-minute saving that AFP has not been able to verify, the 19-year-old soldier called in Hebrew for the Israeli government to secure her transfer.
In response, her household issued an appeal to Netanyahu, saying:” It’s time to get choices as if it were your own kids it”.
34 of the 96 Jewish victims that the Israeli military claims are dead are all still present in Gaza.
The Captives and Missing Households Forum, a group for advocacy, called the most recent movie “firm and uncontestable evidence of the intensity of bringing the hostages home.”
Late on Friday, Hamas had stated that the negotiations were on hold to begin.
The militant group, whose Israeli attack on October 7, 2023, sparked the Gaza War, stated that they would “focus on ensuring the agreement leads to a total cessation of hostilities ( and the withdrawal of occupation forces ).”
Negotiators from Qatar, Egypt, and the United States have been working for months in an effort that has failed to put an end to almost 15 times of battle.
In December, Qatar expressed enthusiasm that “momentum” was returning to the discussions following the US election of Donald Trump, who takes office in 16 days.
Hamas and Israel therefore however, accused one another of creating new constraints and obstacles.
A source with knowledge of the plan’s timing on Saturday said that the outgoing administration of President Joe Biden informed Congress of an$ 8 billion arms sale to Israel.
The official stated that the division has freely informed Congress of an$ 8 billion proposed sale of weapons to help Israel’s long-term security by restocking its stocks of essential weapons and air defense skills.
The United States is Israel’s largest military vendor.
– ‘ Everyone was shaking’-
The Ghoula house in Gaza City, according to civil defense official Mahmud Bassal, was” completely destroyed” by the sun attack.
He continued,” Many people are still under the rubble because it was a two-story constructing,” adding Israeli drones had “also fired on emergency personnel.”
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli troops did not immediately reply.
” We woke up after a massive blast. All was shaking”, said ally Ahmed Mussa.
” It was home to youngsters, people. There wasn’t anyone wanted or who posed a hazard”.
Five surveillance officers allegedly killed by an Israeli attack who were assisting help convoys as they passed through the southwestern city of Khan Yunis, according to the legal defense company.
The five were “implicated in criminal activities,” according to the Israeli army, and they were not escorting help trucks at the time of the hit.
According to rescuers, 10 different people were killed by strikes somewhere in Gaza.
AFP pictures showed one of the Palestine Red Crescent doctors in Gaza City moving the body of one of their acquaintances, his green coat laying over the body that had been covered in his body.
In Gaza, according to the health ministry’s Hamas-run department, 136 people had died overall in the previous 48 hours.
In the most recent of a string of problems, the Israeli military claimed on Sunday that it had intercepted a missile launched from Kuwait.
In what they call a unity battle with Palestinians during the Gaza War, Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi separatists have been firing missiles and uavs at Israel and boats in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
The Hamas assault that triggered the conflict resulted in the deaths of 1, 208 persons, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Jewish official statistics.
According to numbers from the Gaza health department, which the UN considers accurate, at least 45,717 people have died in Israel’s hostile military offensive in Gaza, the majority of whom are citizens.
