Israel carried out an air strike in northern Gaza on Sunday, rattled A fragile ceasefire With a new speech in Doha, it will be held on Monday.
The Israeli military said the target of the air strike was “Hamas terrorists identified as operating adjacent to IDF forces and attempting to plant explosive devices on the ground in northern Gaza.”
It is not clear whether the strike will have any harm.
The air strikes will start again this week just before talking about the future of the truce.
The ceasefire, which began in mid-January, ceased amid Israel’s bombing and ground attacks devastated Hamas following the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on southern Israel.
The first phase of the ceasefire saw 25 species of Israeli hostages and eight other bodies held by Hamas in Gaza in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
Hamas has repeatedly called for an immediate start of negotiations since the end of the first phase, but Israel pushed for the extension of the first phase until mid-April, demanding the release of half of its remaining hostages.
Earlier this month, Israel All food, fuel, medicines and other supplies are prohibited Starting with about 2 million people entering Gaza, Hamas is asked to accept the revised agreement.
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Israel said on Sunday it was cutting off electricity supply from Gaza. Its full impact is unclear, but the desalted plants in the territory gained the motivation to produce drinking water.
Gaza was largely damaged by war, with generators and solar panels used in certain power supplies.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will send a delegation to Qatar On Monday, ceasefire negotiations were held. A statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said there was no detail, just saying “the invitation was accepted by the US-backed mediator.”
Hamas’s representatives met with Cairo’s mediators over the weekend, stressing the urgent need to restore humanitarian assistance to the surrounded territories “without restrictions or conditions” and “without restrictions or conditions.”
“Hamas stressed the urgency of forcing the occupation to begin the second phase of negotiations immediately,” Mahmoud Mardawi, senior Hamas leader, told AFP.
Trump’s nominee as special messenger for hostage affairs held Unprecedented direct negotiations with Hamas This week. He told CNN’s “union status” that he was confident of reaching a deal “within weeks” to free all civilians Hamas still holds.
Boller said he understood Israel’s “shock” that the United States had talks with the group at all, but said he had been seeking to start “fragile” negotiations.
“In the end, I think it’s a very useful meeting and I think it might be a little bit together in a few weeks … I think there’s a deal that can get all the prisoners out, not just Americans,” he said.
A senior Hamas official told Reuters on Sunday that the meeting with Boller was also focused on releasing the U.S.-Israel hostages that militant groups were released.
“We inform the U.S. delegation that we do not object to the release of prisoners within the framework of these talks,” Nono told Reuters.
Mr. Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff told reporters at the White House last week that Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old from New Jersey, was considered the last time Hamas lived in Gaza, and that was our “most important point.”
On October 7, 2023, 58 of the 251 hostages held by Palestinian militants retained 58 in Gaza, including five Americans. Four American prisoners have been confirmed dead.
Official figures show that the Hamas attack killed 1,218 people on the Israeli side, most of whom were civilians.
According to Hamas-the Ministry of Health, which operates the territory, Israel’s retaliation campaign killed at least 48,458 people in Gaza, most of whom were civilians.
