NEW DELHI: Truce discuss between Israel and Hamas is about to renew on Monday, whilst disagreement grew deeper over calls for pitched to finish the seven-month lethal war.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday stated “surrendering” to calls for to finish the warfare could be tantamount to defeat.
Based on an announcement from Netanyahu’s workplace, he advised his cupboard Israel wouldn’t let Hamas “take management of Gaza once more, rebuild their navy infrastructure and return to threaten the residents of Israel”.
“Israel won’t conform to Hamas’s calls for, which imply give up, and can proceed the preventing till all its targets are achieved,” he added.
Hamas says ‘Netanyahu sabotaging talks’
Reacting to Netanyahu’s assertion, Qatar-based Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh accused the Israeli PM of sabotaging the talks.
A Hamas official stated Sunday the group’s delegation for Gaza truce talks was headed to Doha for “consultations” after the final spherical of talks in Cairo failed to supply a breakthrough.
Hamas negotiators are then due again in Cairo on Tuesday, stated Al-Qahera Information, a web site linked to Egyptian intelligence providers.
Israeli air strikes rock Rafah
Israeli air strikes continued to pound Rafah in southern Gaza, the place about 12 lakh Palestinians have sought shelter. Sunday bombings within the southern strip killed no less than 16 folks, hours after Hamas rockets eradicated three Israeli troopers.
On Monday, the navy started evacuating Rafah civilians as Israel plans a extra intensifed assault within the area.
Gaza’s bloodiest-ever warfare started following Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 assault on Israel that resulted within the deaths of greater than 1,170 folks, principally civilians.
‘Truce talks final hope’
Residents of the southern Gaza metropolis stated they feared an upsurge in violence if truce talks collapse.
Naja Shaat, 59, stated she was “extraordinarily joyful” when she thought a ceasefire was imminent, “however right this moment… we’re on pins and needles”.
The Palestinian civilian toll has strained ties between Israel and its important navy provider and ally the USA. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated Friday that “the one factor standing between the folks of Gaza and a ceasefire is Hamas”.
Israel skips Cairo talks
Negotiators met in Egypt’s Cairo on Sunday within the absence of the Israeli delegation. Within the assembly, Qatari, Egyptian and US mediators proposed a 40-day pause within the preventing and an trade of hostages for Palestinian prisoners, in keeping with particulars launched by Britain.
Any truce reached could be the primary since a week-long November ceasefire noticed a hostage-prisoner swap.
As hundreds of thousands of individuals have pinned hope on truce discuss success, Netanyahu faces protests demanding a truce deal to convey Gaza hostages again house. Protestors, some carrying posters with pictures of the captives, gathered in Tel Aviv on Sunday, as Israel marked nationwide Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Al Jazeera calls Israeli crackdown ‘legal act’
Israel on Sunday introduced its resolution to shut Qatar-based information channel Al Jazeera’s operation within the nation. The community went off-air a short while later.
Lashing out on the Netanyahu dispensation’s resolution, Al Jazeera condemned Israel’s motion as a “legal act”, and stated it could take authorized motion.
The acute step got here amid Al Jazeera’s round the clock protection of the warfare, which Israel says is one-sided.
(With AFP inputs)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday stated “surrendering” to calls for to finish the warfare could be tantamount to defeat.
Based on an announcement from Netanyahu’s workplace, he advised his cupboard Israel wouldn’t let Hamas “take management of Gaza once more, rebuild their navy infrastructure and return to threaten the residents of Israel”.
“Israel won’t conform to Hamas’s calls for, which imply give up, and can proceed the preventing till all its targets are achieved,” he added.
Hamas says ‘Netanyahu sabotaging talks’
Reacting to Netanyahu’s assertion, Qatar-based Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh accused the Israeli PM of sabotaging the talks.
A Hamas official stated Sunday the group’s delegation for Gaza truce talks was headed to Doha for “consultations” after the final spherical of talks in Cairo failed to supply a breakthrough.
Hamas negotiators are then due again in Cairo on Tuesday, stated Al-Qahera Information, a web site linked to Egyptian intelligence providers.
Israeli air strikes rock Rafah
Israeli air strikes continued to pound Rafah in southern Gaza, the place about 12 lakh Palestinians have sought shelter. Sunday bombings within the southern strip killed no less than 16 folks, hours after Hamas rockets eradicated three Israeli troopers.
On Monday, the navy started evacuating Rafah civilians as Israel plans a extra intensifed assault within the area.
Gaza’s bloodiest-ever warfare started following Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 assault on Israel that resulted within the deaths of greater than 1,170 folks, principally civilians.
‘Truce talks final hope’
Residents of the southern Gaza metropolis stated they feared an upsurge in violence if truce talks collapse.
Naja Shaat, 59, stated she was “extraordinarily joyful” when she thought a ceasefire was imminent, “however right this moment… we’re on pins and needles”.
The Palestinian civilian toll has strained ties between Israel and its important navy provider and ally the USA. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated Friday that “the one factor standing between the folks of Gaza and a ceasefire is Hamas”.
Israel skips Cairo talks
Negotiators met in Egypt’s Cairo on Sunday within the absence of the Israeli delegation. Within the assembly, Qatari, Egyptian and US mediators proposed a 40-day pause within the preventing and an trade of hostages for Palestinian prisoners, in keeping with particulars launched by Britain.
Any truce reached could be the primary since a week-long November ceasefire noticed a hostage-prisoner swap.
As hundreds of thousands of individuals have pinned hope on truce discuss success, Netanyahu faces protests demanding a truce deal to convey Gaza hostages again house. Protestors, some carrying posters with pictures of the captives, gathered in Tel Aviv on Sunday, as Israel marked nationwide Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Al Jazeera calls Israeli crackdown ‘legal act’
Israel on Sunday introduced its resolution to shut Qatar-based information channel Al Jazeera’s operation within the nation. The community went off-air a short while later.
Lashing out on the Netanyahu dispensation’s resolution, Al Jazeera condemned Israel’s motion as a “legal act”, and stated it could take authorized motion.
The acute step got here amid Al Jazeera’s round the clock protection of the warfare, which Israel says is one-sided.
(With AFP inputs)
