The negotiation process appears to have slipped once more following Hamas in its latest proposal dropped the demand that a cease-fire must be permanent.
A top Hamas official, Osama Hamdan, says the group’s new ideas have been transmitted via brokers to the United States, which welcomed them and forwarded them to Israel.
– Now the ball is in Israel’s court, he said.
American and Israeli delegations are present in Cairo, but Israel has not yet come up with any response to Hamas’s latest move.
The compromise proposal from Hamas is based on an initial six-week ceasefire and that a permanent ceasefire can be negotiated during the six weeks.
New attacks
Health personnel in Gaza report that several new people were killed in several Israeli attacks in several places on the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reports that six dead, including two children, have been brought to al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, and paramedics report six dead in Gaza City and another three outside the city core.
The Israeli army says it “eliminated several terrorists, destroyed terrorist infrastructure and located many weapons”. They also say that 30 “terrorists” had been killed in Rafah and that a new offensive had been carried out in Khan Younis.
On Saturday, the Gaza health authorities reported that 16 people were killed in an attack on a UN school where refugees had sought refuge, in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
90 percent on the run
After nine months of war, the death toll in Gaza has reached 38,153, according to Palestinian health authorities.
In the last 24 hours, 55 people have been killed in Israeli attacks, the health authorities report. In addition, the number of injured has risen to 87,828 people since the war started in October last year.
Ninety percent of Gaza’s population of more than 2 million people have been displaced, and many are being driven once more and once more from areas they were initially told were safe, and the UN says 500,000 people are now badly affected by hunger.
Demonstrations
In Israel, demonstrators demanding that the Israeli government enter into an agreement with Hamas on the hostages in Gaza blocked streets and roads throughout the country on Sunday morning.
The demonstrators blocked roads in several Israeli cities in the middle of rush hour traffic. They also set fire to car tires on the main road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv before being removed by police.
Smaller groups of protesters with megaphones and banners also showed up outside the homes of several of the ministers in the government.
The war began on October 7 last year when Hamas fighters stormed across the border from Gaza, killing nearly 1,200 people in Israel and taking over 250 people hostage.
#Hamas #waiting #response #Israel
2024-07-09 06:27:40
