Hamas accuses Netanyahu of attempting to ‘thwart’ ceasefire and hostage deal
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Hamas has mentioned there isn’t any want for brand new ceasefire proposals for Gaza and strain needs to be placed on Israel to comply with a US plan that the Islamist group had already accepted.
The US is predicted to current a brand new truce proposal geared toward breaking an deadlock between Hamas and Israel quickly. Benjamin Netanyahu faces strain from inside Israel to seal a deal that may free remaining hostages, after Israeli authorities introduced on Sunday the deaths of six whose our bodies have been recovered from a Gaza tunnel.
In an announcement posted on Telegram early on Thursday, Hamas mentioned that Netanyahu was making an attempt to thwart an settlement by insisting that Israel won’t withdraw from the Philadelphi corridor in southern Gaza. The difficulty has turn out to be a central impediment within the talks. The Israeli PM has been extensively accused of attempting to extend the warfare for his personal private and political achieve.
“We warn towards falling into Netanyahu’s lure and methods, as he makes use of negotiations to extend the aggression towards our folks,” the Hamas assertion mentioned, including that it had accepted a 2 July proposal put ahead by the US.
However late Wednesday Netanyahu claimed it was Hamas that was stalling the talks.
“We’re looking for some space to start the negotiations,” he mentioned Wednesday. “They [Hamas] refuse to try this … [They said] there’s nothing to speak about.”
Netanyahu maintains that Israel should retain management over the Philadelphi Hall alongside the Egypt-Gaza border to forestall weapons smuggling to Hamas, which has demanded a whole withdrawal from the realm.
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Palestinian medics reported Thursday that 5 folks had been killed in an Israeli airstrike concentrating on a automotive within the occupied West Financial institution space of Tubas. “5 killed and (one) critically wounded in a strike (on) a automotive in Tubas,” the Palestinian Purple Crescent Society mentioned in an announcement. The Israeli navy mentioned its plane “carried out three focused strikes on armed terrorists” within the Tubas space.
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Numerous Israeli troops stormed the Faraa refugee camp in Tubas governorate, the place explosions have been heard, eyewitnesses informed AFP information company. Israel launched an enormous offensive throughout the northern West Financial institution on 28 August, leaving widespread destruction and killing dozens of individuals together with youngsters.
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UK prime minister Keir Starmer has defended his authorities’s partial suspension of arms exports to Israel, saying the transfer is “a authorized determination”. He mentioned Monday’s announcement to droop 30 of 350 arms exports licences didn’t signify a change in UK help for Israel’s proper to self-defence, and that the UK’s allies “perceive” the transfer.
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The USA has announced criminal charges against Hamas’ top leaders over their roles in planning, supporting and perpetrating the 7 October assault in southern Israel. The fees towards Yahya Sinwar, the militant group’s chief, and a minimum of 5 others accuse them of orchestrating the assault, which killed 1,200 folks, together with greater than 40 People.
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The US has mentioned it’s time to “finalise” a deal between Israel and Hamas to finish the Gaza warfare, after Netanyahu’s refusal to bow to strain. Washington will work “over the approaching days” with fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar “to push for a remaining settlement,” mentioned US State Division spokesman Matthew Miller.
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Nonetheless, an Israeli far-right minister has stepped up strain on Netanyahu to finish negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire geared toward securing the discharge of hostages. Nationwide safety minister Itamar Ben Gvir known as for an finish to oblique talks with Hamas, which Israel has accused of executing six hostages whose our bodies have been present in a Gaza tunnel final week.
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The primary United Nations company for Palestinians says it is making good progress in rolling out a polio vaccine to youngsters in Gaza, however known as for a everlasting ceasefire within the 11-month warfare to ease humanitarian struggling. UNRWA mentioned that three days into the marketing campaign in areas of central Gaza round 187,000 youngsters have obtained the vaccine. The marketing campaign will transfer to different areas of the enclave within the second stage.
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The Gaza well being ministry says that a minimum of 40,861 folks have been killed within the warfare between Israel and Palestinian militants, now nearing its twelfth month.
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Related Press reviews that one of many males killed by an Israeli strike on a automobile in Tubas within the occupied West Financial institution has been named by the Palestinian well being ministry as Mohammed Zubeidi.
His father, Zakaria Zubeidi, was a militant commander through the early 2000s and escaped Israeli jail in 2021, earlier than being arrested and returned to jail days later.
Individuals in Gaza have been queueing this morning so as to get their youngsters vaccinated towards Polio.
Earlier the Palestine Purple Crescent Society reported that it had obtained additonal vaccine provides, and the World Well being Group revealed a map of the place vaccinations can be carried out.
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Yesterday Unicef mentioned that to date 189,000 youngsters had been reached by the vaccination marketing campaign. The marketing campaign was launched after Gaza had its first reported polio case in 25 years – a 10-month-old boy, now paralysed within the leg.
Palestinian information company Wafa reviews that three folks have been killed in an obvious Israeli strike on Gaza Metropolis within the north of the territory. The assault occurred within the al-Zaytoun neighbourhood.
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Al Jazeera is reporting that its journalist Tareq Abu Azzoum has visited the location of an Israeli airstrike earlier immediately close to al-Aqsa hospital which hit a tent camp.
In an earlier assertion about its operations placing at Deir el-Balah, Israel’s navy claimed it had taken steps “to mitigate the danger of harming civilians”.
Al Jazeera’s reporter informed the community folks sheltering close to the hospital obtained no warning, and dozens of tents have been “utterly worn out” and that already displaced Palestinians have been left trying to find thier belongings.
The information community quotes Azzoum saying “The assault was sudden in an space that’s imagined to be protected. The hospital has became a graveyard fairly than a spot of therapy.”
Benjamin Netanyahu’s authorities banned Al Jazeera from working inside Israel earlier this 12 months.
A UN automobile passing north of Khan Younis confirmed the widescale destruction within the metropolis attributable to Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The roads have been lined with piles of rubble and buildings had components blown away or have been charred by fires. Polio vaccinations are as a result of start in Rafah and Khan Younis on Thursday the place healthcare staff purpose to vaccinate greater than 200,000 youngsters underneath the age of 10.
Palestinian information company Wafa reviews that Israeli safety drive raids within the occupied West Financial institution are going down this morning close to Bethlehem, and in Jenin and Tulkarm.
Wafa reviews that it’s the ninth consecutive day of raids into Jenin, and citing a neighborhood official, reviews {that a} 38-year-old man was overwhelmed by Israeli forces and teargas was deployed at Za-tara, the south-east of Bethlehem.
Earlier 5 folks have been reported killed by an Israeli strike on a automobile in Tubas, with a 16-year-old little one additionally killed by Israeli forces.
In an replace by way of the Telegram messaging app, Israel’s navy has mentioned that earlier sirens warning of rocket launches in the direction of kibbutz Nahal Oz close to Gaza have been a false alarm.
Israel’s safety company Shin Wager has revealed figures suggesting that August noticed extra rockets fired into Israeli-controlled territory from Lebanon than some other month because the Hamas assault launched on southern Israel on 7 October final 12 months.
The Instances of Israel reviews that the Shin Wager figures present that 1,307 rockets have been fired throughout August from what it termed “the northern entrance”, which incorporates components of Syria. That was up from 1,091 in July and 855 in June.
The information mentioned that in August about 116 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza, the place Israel has been mounting a prolonged navy operation which it claims is concentrating on Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives within the territory.
In an early morning operational replace Israel’s navy forces have claimed to have struck in Gaza what it known as a “command and management centre” which it mentioned was utilized by each Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The IDF mentioned it had been situated in what it described as “the humanitarian space in Deir al-Balah”.
Haaretz reviews helicopters have been used within the assault. The IDF claims to have taken steps “to mitigate the danger of harming civilians”.
Palestinian information sources have reported that an assault by Israeli forces exterior al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah resulted within the deaths of 5 civilians. Photos distributed from the hospital present youngsters being handled for accidents on the hospital flooring.
Palestinian information sources have claimed that certainly one of six folks killed in a single day by Israeli forces included a 16-year-old boy, named by the Wafa information company as Majed Fida Abu Zeina.
It reviews that the Palestine Purple Crescent Society mentioned it was in a position to transer Zeina to hospital after Israeli safety forces initially prevented medical help reaching the kid. Experiences says he was shot by Israeli forces in within the Far’a camp, south of Tubas.
5 younger males have been additionally killed by Israeli safety forces within the occupied West Financial institution when their automobile was bombed in Tubas metropolis, in keeping with Wafa’s reviews.
Hamas accuses Netanyahu of attempting to ‘thwart’ ceasefire and hostage deal
Whats up and welcome to the Guardian’s stay protection of the Israel-Gaza war and the broader disaster within the Center East.
Hamas has mentioned there isn’t any want for brand new ceasefire proposals for Gaza and strain needs to be placed on Israel to comply with a US plan that the Islamist group had already accepted.
The US is predicted to current a brand new truce proposal geared toward breaking an deadlock between Hamas and Israel quickly. Benjamin Netanyahu faces strain from inside Israel to seal a deal that may free remaining hostages, after Israeli authorities introduced on Sunday the deaths of six whose our bodies have been recovered from a Gaza tunnel.
In an announcement posted on Telegram early on Thursday, Hamas mentioned that Netanyahu was making an attempt to thwart an settlement by insisting that Israel won’t withdraw from the Philadelphi corridor in southern Gaza. The difficulty has turn out to be a central impediment within the talks. The Israeli PM has been extensively accused of attempting to extend the warfare for his personal private and political achieve.
“We warn towards falling into Netanyahu’s lure and methods, as he makes use of negotiations to extend the aggression towards our folks,” the Hamas assertion mentioned, including that it had accepted a 2 July proposal put ahead by the US.
However late Wednesday Netanyahu claimed it was Hamas that was stalling the talks.
“We’re looking for some space to start the negotiations,” he mentioned Wednesday. “They [Hamas] refuse to try this … [They said] there’s nothing to speak about.”
Netanyahu maintains that Israel should retain management over the Philadelphi Hall alongside the Egypt-Gaza border to forestall weapons smuggling to Hamas, which has demanded a whole withdrawal from the realm.
In different developments:
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Palestinian medics reported Thursday that 5 folks had been killed in an Israeli airstrike concentrating on a automotive within the occupied West Financial institution space of Tubas. “5 killed and (one) critically wounded in a strike (on) a automotive in Tubas,” the Palestinian Purple Crescent Society mentioned in an announcement. The Israeli navy mentioned its plane “carried out three focused strikes on armed terrorists” within the Tubas space.
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Numerous Israeli troops stormed the Faraa refugee camp in Tubas governorate, the place explosions have been heard, eyewitnesses informed AFP information company. Israel launched an enormous offensive throughout the northern West Financial institution on 28 August, leaving widespread destruction and killing dozens of individuals together with youngsters.
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UK prime minister Keir Starmer has defended his authorities’s partial suspension of arms exports to Israel, saying the transfer is “a authorized determination”. He mentioned Monday’s announcement to droop 30 of 350 arms exports licences didn’t signify a change in UK help for Israel’s proper to self-defence, and that the UK’s allies “perceive” the transfer.
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The USA has announced criminal charges against Hamas’ top leaders over their roles in planning, supporting and perpetrating the 7 October assault in southern Israel. The fees towards Yahya Sinwar, the militant group’s chief, and a minimum of 5 others accuse them of orchestrating the assault, which killed 1,200 folks, together with greater than 40 People.
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The US has mentioned it’s time to “finalise” a deal between Israel and Hamas to finish the Gaza warfare, after Netanyahu’s refusal to bow to strain. Washington will work “over the approaching days” with fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar “to push for a remaining settlement,” mentioned US State Division spokesman Matthew Miller.
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Nonetheless, an Israeli far-right minister has stepped up strain on Netanyahu to finish negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire geared toward securing the discharge of hostages. Nationwide safety minister Itamar Ben Gvir known as for an finish to oblique talks with Hamas, which Israel has accused of executing six hostages whose our bodies have been present in a Gaza tunnel final week.
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The primary United Nations company for Palestinians says it is making good progress in rolling out a polio vaccine to youngsters in Gaza, however known as for a everlasting ceasefire within the 11-month warfare to ease humanitarian struggling. UNRWA mentioned that three days into the marketing campaign in areas of central Gaza round 187,000 youngsters have obtained the vaccine. The marketing campaign will transfer to different areas of the enclave within the second stage.
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The Gaza well being ministry says that a minimum of 40,861 folks have been killed within the warfare between Israel and Palestinian militants, now nearing its twelfth month.
