Israel's thrust into the sector of the city packed with displaced civilians came a day after it warned Palestinians in the area to evacuate.
Israel's thrust into the sector of the city packed with displaced civilians came a day after it warned Palestinians in the area to evacuate.
UN humanitarian office spokesman Jens Laerke said Israel had denied it access to both Rafah and Kerem Shalom — the other main Gaza aid crossing, on the border with Israel — with only “one day of fuel available” inside the besieged territory.Unless fuel was allowed in, “it would be a very effective way of putting the humanitarian operation in its grave”, he warned.
Egypt, which has a peace treaty with Israel, and Qatar, a US ally that is also home to Hamas leaders, have taken the lead in the ceasefire negotiations.Hamas said on Monday night it had informed Egypt and Qatar of its “approval of their proposal regarding a ceasefire” in the conflict, prompting cheering crowds to take to the streets of Rafah.
Qatar said it was sending a delegation to Cairo on Tuesday morning to resume negotiations in the “hope that the talks will culminate in reaching an agreement for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip”. In a conversation with Netanyahu on Monday, US President Joe Biden restated “his clear position” opposing an invasion of the city, the White House said.Netanyahu has vowed to eventually send ground troops into Rafah regardless of any truce, saying it needs to root out Hamas’s remaining forces to prevent a repeat of the bloody October 7 attacks.
“The Israeli occupation deliberately exacerbates the humanitarian situation by closing the Rafah and Kerem crossings,” the Hamas government’s media office said.
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