Truce negotiations between Israel and Hamas in Gaza resume in Egypt

Negotiations resume this Sunday in Egypt about a possible truce between Israel It is Hamas during Ramadan in Linkwhere Israeli bombings persist and the Palestinian population is on the brink of starvation.

Delegations of the Islamic movement, Qatar It is U.S They are in the Egyptian capital to begin with.”a new round of negotiations”. Those sent from Hamas will have to decide on the proposal outlined in the Paris at the end of January, indicated a source close to the Palestinian group.

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This proposal from the mediating countries – Qatar, the United States and Egypt– is based on a six-week pause in fighting and the release of 42 hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.

The aim is to reach a truce before the start of the Muslim fasting month, which will begin on March 10 or 11.

“The Israelis accepted in principle the elements of the agreement“, a senior US official said on Saturday, although Israel has not confirmed this.

An agreement could be signed “in 24 or 48 hours“yes Israel”accepts Hamas’ demands, which include the return of Palestinians displaced to the north Link and increased humanitarian aid“, a prominent leader of the Islamic movement told AFP on Sunday.

An “almost inevitable” famine

On the ground, there were night bombings in the cities of Jan Yunis It is Rafain the south of Gaza stripaccording to an AFP correspondent.

The Hamas government, in power in the enclave since 2007, indicated that artillery fire was fired at Jabaliya, Beit Hanum, Zeitun It is Tal Al HawaIn the north.

In nearly five months of war, military operations in retaliation for Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel in October 7th left 30,410 dead in the Strip, most of them civilians, according to the latest report from the territory’s Ministry of Health.

In the last 24 hours, 90 people died, 14 of them members of the same family, in a bomb attack in Rafah.

In the attack by Hamas commandos on Israeli soil, around 1,160 people were killed, mainly civilians, according to an AFP count based on Israeli data. The Islamists kidnapped around 250 people, 130 of whom are still detained in Gaza, according to Israeli authorities.

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The conflict has also caused a humanitarian catastrophe and hunger is “almost inevitable”to 2.2 million people, the vast majority of Gaza’s population, according to Jens Laerkespokesperson for UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (THE TEA).

The Hamas Ministry of Health reported the deaths of 16 children from “malnutrition and dehydration“In these last few days.

He United Nations Security Council He called on Saturday for the delivery of humanitarian aid to “Big scale”.

66 “packages”

Facing difficulties in delivering aid by road to the enclave besieged by Israel, the United States on Saturday launched a first shipment of food, with 66 “packages” which contained 38 thousand food rations, in an operation in collaboration with Jordanaccording to a US military official.

The supply of aid by land, which depends on Israeli authorization, gradually enters the tiny territory, mainly through Rafah, from Egypt.

Fighting, Israeli bombing, road debris and sometimes looting make it very dangerous to bring aid north of the Strip.

A food distribution in Gaza City ended in tragedy on Thursday after Israeli soldiers opened fire on a crowd advancing on trucks.

According to Hamas, 118 people were killed and 760 injured.

SEE TOO: Around 90 deaths in the Strip in the last day, including five babies due to malnutrition

Israel assured that there was “limited photos”of the soldiers after feeling“threatened” and that most of the victims died in stampedes and were crushed by trucks.

A UN team said it found a “great number”From gunshot wounds in a city hospital where many of the victims were admitted.

The international community demands an independent investigation of the events.

Source: Elcomercio

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