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as well as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, as he tries to advance the cease-fire talks and pushes for a larger postwar settlement for the Gaza Strip. The meetings came after Saudi Arabia said it would not engage in diplomatic relations with Israel without recognition of an independent Palestinian state and an end to the assault on the enclave.
Nizar Doar said he believes his son was targeted because the car had a distinctly patterned Palestinian kaffiyeh, or scarf, tied to a door handle.The daily toll on Palestinians in Gaza as a result of Israel's military campaign in the strip remains"too high" as the war continues into its fifth month, Blinken told reporters today after his meeting with Israeli government officials.
Blinken did not describe what the"nonstarters" were, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to reject the idea of a total cease-fire that Hamas has repeatedly demanded. He also said that he has not committed to exchanging the high number of Palestinians in Israeli detention for the 136 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
U.S. Central Command posted a statement on X announcing the strike, describing the man killed as someone directly responsible in planning and participating in attacks on American forces in the region.TEL AVIV — A Hamas official has said he believes Israel never had any intention of halting its incursion into the Gaza Strip or of accepting the group’s counterproposal to a hostage release deal negotiated in Paris at the end of January.
The prime minister insisted that Hamas’ military power must be dismantled before Israel can consider a withdrawal. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed and wounded in the war, and around 90% of Gaza’s population has been driven from their homes. While Israel has been criticized internationally for its conduct during the war, Hamas has continued to fight and launch rockets at civilian communities.BEIRUT — A senior Hamas official says the Palestinian militant group will be sending a delegation to Cairo to continue talks on a cease-fire and hostage release deal.
"I am turning to you, Mr. Netanyahu," Moshe said."Everything is in your hands. I am very afraid and fear that if you continue with this line of collapse Hamas, there will be no prisoners left to release."Palestine Red Crescent Society staff posted a video to the organization's social media today asking for intervention to protect hospital staff and patients in Khan Younis.
"We call on the international community and demand the decision-makers and supporters of international law to intervene urgently and immediately to protect what remains of the steadfastness of this hospital, to strengthen the steadfastness of the health system in the Gaza Strip in light of the aggression," he said.
According to the allegation, commanders order soldiers to"set fire to residential units and houses in a way that makes them completely uninhabitable, and without any significant reasons, but rather in order to inflict damage and losses on the citizens." "The tunnel was used to hide high-ranking members of the Hamas terrorist organization and to hold hostages," it said, adding Israeli troops had fought against Hamas members in the tunnel.
The presence of several plastic bed frames suggested senior figures had been there, said Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus, commander of the 98th Division of the Israeli military.He told NBC News he believed Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, had used the tunnel at one point. The European Broadcasting Union had faced calls to ban Israel from the global music contest because of the war in Gaza.
The malnutrition rate was found at 9.6%, compared with 0.8% before the war. In northern Gaza, 16.2% malnutrition rate was reported. Blinken said both the U.S. and Israel are"intensely" looking at Hamas' proposals for a hostage deal. He added that he hoped those who remain in captivity could be freed soon.Hamas has proposed a cease-fire plan that would include the release of 1,500 prisoners, including 500 people serving life sentences, an Arab source told NBC News today.
Known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, the area is the holiest site in Judaism and the third-holiest site in Islam.With discarded medical supplies strewn on the floor and bloodstains on the ground at a semi-functioning hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, Dr. Muhammed Harrara told an NBC News crew yesterday that he was treating gunshot victims.
The response to an offer sent last week by Qatari and Egyptian mediators suggests a halt in fighting as the hostages are freed and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip before an agreement is reached on ending the war. Israel has made clear that it will not pull its troops out of Gaza until Hamas is wiped out — an objective that renders Hamas’ demand for a full and final cease-fire an impossible starting point.Blinken is in Tel Aviv today where he is expected to kick off hostage talks with key Israeli officials, amid mounting pressure for a cease-fire and a permanent end to the war in Gaza.
Shnorman and Cohen spoke as they walked past their slain neighbors’ homes, many of them burned down, pocked with bullet holes and still wrapped in police tape.A senior administration official told NBC News the Hamas response conveyed to Blinken by the Qataris appears to be a unified response from Hamas’ different factions and it is accurate to call it “generally positive.” The official added there were still a number of issues to be worked out once Blinken sees what the Israelis say today.
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