Israel will send a delegation to Qatar on Monday to advance cessation of fire Negotiations in Gaza, announced on Saturday the Israeli Prime Minister’s office.
A statement from the Prime Minister’s office did not give any details, except to say that he had « accepted the invitation of US -supported mediators. » The announcement on Saturday comes when the cessation of fire on the Gaza Strip is dangerously close to collapsing, as both Israel and Hamas have contacted negotiations on terms of a second phase planned for the agreement. Talks in the second phase should have started a month ago.
In the meantime, the scarcity of food in the territory has been sharp and the Palestinians who live there again fight to feed their families.
The Ceasefire, which began in mid -January, caused a break in the Israel’s bombing campaign from Israel to Gaza to destroy Hamas after the attack of October 7, 2023 in southern Israel. The first phase of Ceasefire saw the release of 25 Israeli hostages that had the Hamas terrorists in Gaza and the bodies of eight others in exchange for the release of about 2,000 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
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But the second phase of the agreement, aimed at carrying the remaining hostages and lasting truce and the complete Israeli retirement of Gaza, has been in doubt. Israel has requested that Hamas release half of the remaining hostages in exchange for a Extension of the cessation of fire and a promise to negotiate a lasting truce.
Since March 2, Israel has it Brogged all food, fuel, medicine and other supplies From entering Gaza for about 2 million people, asking Hamas to accept the revised agreement.
Now the Palestinians in the territory are searching for any food they can find.
Mustafa Abu Shaaban, Ferrer before the war, and his wife Rasha, try to create a resemblance to their children.
« Our life is hard: we just want to live like everyone else, » Rasha told CBS News.
But as the freezing of the aid begins to bite the Holy Month of Ramadan, the couple has no idea that they will feed their four children.
« All our roads are just ruins, » says Mustafa while walking on the market. « Wherever I get back, they are just ruins. »
The prices have increased and severe milk, eggs, meat and kitchen gas in Gaza have been reported.
« We ask the world to help us stop the war, » said Mustafa. « We have had enough suffering. »
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Under the cessation of the fire, the Israeli forces have returned to an area along the edges of Gaza. On Saturday, an Israeli strike killed two Palestinians in the southernmost city of Rafah, said the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The Israeli army said he struck several men who seemed to fly a drone who entered Israel from Gaza.
The military offensive of Israel has killed more than 48,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not say how many of the dead were militants.
The campaign was triggered by the October 2023 terrorist attack on Hamas, in which the militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in Israel and took a total of 251 hostage. Most have been released in cessation agreements or other arrangements. It is believed that Hamas still has 24 living hostages and the bodies of 34 more.
Trump issued what he called a « last warning » On Wednesday in Hamas to launch all the hostages that were still held in Gaza, directing a strongly written message after the White House confirmed that he had recently sent an envoy for unprecedented direct conversations with the group.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Pledged to « open the doors of hell » If Hamas does not do Return all of their hostages.
Muslim nations reject Trump’s call to empty the Palestinian Strip
Foreign ministers of the Muslim nations rejected the calls of President Trump on Saturday to empty the Gaza Strip of his Palestinian population. They supported a plan for an administrative committee of Palestinians to govern the territory to allow reconstruction to continue.
Foreign Ministers met in the Saudi city of Jedda for a special session of the organization of Islamic cooperation to address the situation in Gaza.
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In a statement published on Saturday, the meeting supported behind a plan to rebuild Gaza presented by Egypt and endorsed by the Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and Jordan, was aimed at falling the call of Mr. Trump. The OIC groups 57 nations with a large Muslim populations.
Without specifically mentioning Mr. Trump, the ministers said that they rejected « the plans intended to displace the Palestinian people individually or collectively … As an ethnic cleansing, a serious violation of international law and a crime against humanity. » They also condemned « hunger policies » who said they aimed to push the Palestinians to leave.
The OIC also restored Syria as a member of the group.
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