Live Ticker Updates: Israel and Hamas Close to Ceasefire Agreement

2023-11-19 05:11:03

Live ticker war in the Middle East

Israel and Hamas are said to be “close” to agreeing on a pause in fighting

As of: 06:11 a.m. | Reading time: 4 minutes

“It is suspected that Hamas has terrorist headquarters in Khan Yunis”

The Israeli military issued leaflets calling for people to leave the eastern neighborhoods of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Countless Palestinians from the north of the Gaza Strip had previously fled to the city. WELT reporter Steffen Schwarzkopf reports from Tel Aviv.

According to a report in the Washington Post, Israel and Hamas have reached a tentative agreement on a pause in fighting through US mediation. Dozens of hostages, women and children, would be released. The White House and Israel initially denied it. More in the live ticker.

Israel, the United States and Hamas are said to be “close” to an agreement on the release of dozens of women and children held hostage in the Gaza Strip, a newspaper report said. In return, the parties are considering a five-day break in fighting, reports the Washington Post citing people familiar with the regulations.

Unless something comes up at the last minute, the release might begin in the next few days, according to a detailed six-page draft of an agreement. It is said here that all parties to the conflict will stop fighting for at least five days. Initially, 50 or more hostages were to be released in smaller groups, every 24 hours.

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The pause in fighting should make more humanitarian aid and better care possible, the report continues. The draft is the result of weeks of talks in Doha, Qatar, between Israel, the United States and Hamas, which was indirectly represented by Qatari mediators.

The White House said following the publication of the Washington Post report that Israel and Hamas had not yet agreed to a temporary ceasefire. “We have not reached an agreement yet, but we continue to work hard to reach an agreement,” White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said on “X.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also said there was no agreement yet on the release of hostages.

All developments in the live ticker:

06:01 – Number of Israeli casualties from the ground offensive rises to 58

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the deaths of two more soldiers killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. This brings the number of Israeli deaths in the ground offensive once morest Hamas to 58.

00:29 – WHO plans to rescue the remaining patients in Shifa Clinic

The World Health Organization (WHO) is working hard on a plan to rescue the remaining patients from Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip. WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote this on the short message portal X. Employees visited the hospital on Saturday. There is no water, no electricity or food there and hardly any medical needs left. The WHO is working with partners on this and is demanding support for this plan.

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10:58 p.m. – Demonstration in Tel Aviv once morest the Gaza war

Several hundred people demonstrated in Tel Aviv once morest the Gaza war. The demonstration on the beach promenade took place at the initiative of the left-wing Chadash party, as Israeli media reported. Jewish and Arab Israelis protested together once morest a continuation of the military operation in the Gaza Strip.

10:47 p.m. – Biden: Gaza Strip and West Bank should be “reunified” – Netanyahu skeptical

With a view to the post-war period, US President Joe Biden has spoken out in favor of reunifying the Palestinian territories under the umbrella of a new Palestinian authority. “The Gaza Strip and the West Bank should be reunited under a unified governance structure, ultimately a revitalized Palestinian Authority,” he wrote in a piece for theWashington Post“. This should happen “as we all work towards a two-state solution”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed skepticism regarding the demand: “I think that the Palestinian Authority in its current form is not capable of taking responsibility for Gaza,” Netanyahu said in Tel Aviv.

9:59 p.m. – Abbas calls for an immediate end to the Gaza war

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for an immediate end to the war in the Gaza Strip. In one TV speech Abbas called on US President Joe Biden to “intervene and stop this aggression immediately.” He asked: “What is the United States waiting for in light of the ongoing genocide once morest our people in Gaza?” Abbas also called on Biden to push for more humanitarian aid to be brought into the blockaded coastal strip.

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People of Turkish origin and hatred of Jews

Hamas won parliamentary elections in 2006 once morest Abbas’s more moderate Fatah. A year later, Hamas violently seized sole control of the Gaza Strip. Israel cleared the area in 2005 and evacuated more than 20 Israeli settlements there. Since the terrorist organization Hamas came to power, there have been de facto two separate governments – one in Gaza and one in Ramallah. Since the beginning of the fratricidal war between the two rival Palestinian organizations, there have been no new parliamentary or presidential elections.

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