Be weeks Of truce in Gaza. This is the agreement that Israel may accept soon. She said it a senior US official in a phone call with a small group of journalists. “Israel more or less accepted the deal for one truce a Gaza six weeks,” but now “the burden” it is up to Hamas and it is up to the group to accept it. News leaked on another bloody day, with 11 people killed during an attack on a tent in Rafah. All this while the civilian population continues to suffer. “The amount of aid arriving in Gaza is not even remotely sufficient and we will continue – wrote Joe Biden in a post on X – to make every possible effort to increase it”. The US began dropping aid into Gaza from military aircraft on Saturday
The talks resume on Sunday – In addition to a 6-week ceasefire in Gaza, the agreement provides for the release by Hamas of the hostages considered vulnerable, including the sick, injured, elderly and women, the official said. “The Israelis have essentially accepted the elements of the agreement” and “right now the ball is in Hamas’ court and we are continuing to push as hard as we can,” he added. The source briefed reporters on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the talks for the cease-fire. The news comes after a senior Egyptian official said this morning that ceasefire talks will resume on Sunday at Cairo, in Egypt. The hope of international mediators is precisely that of an agreement for a 6-week pause in the fighting and an exchange of Israeli hostages with Palestinian prisoners imprisoned by Israel, to be obtained before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which is expected to begin around to March 10th.
Humanitarian pauses – Meanwhile, the Israeli army – as military spokesperson Avichay Adraee writes on Rafah and Dir el-Balah – to provide the necessary supplies. In Rafah those breaks will be observed today, tomorrow and Thursday in Jneia, Salam and Sultan districts. In Dir el-Balah the suspension of military activities will take place on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in the Jaffa, Sheikh Yamani and Salam districts. According to the newspaper al-Arabi al-Jadid, cited by Israeli media, Hamas rejects the Israeli request to know how many of the hostages held captive in Gaza are still alive. “Hamas and the resistance – said the source reached by the newspaper – will not hand over any information about the prisoners without a price being paid. We do not accept the conditioning requested by Israel between the delivery of that list and the resumption of ceasefire negotiations.” On Friday, the military wing of Hamas published a video on Telegram in which it announced the death of seven hostages and claimed that the total number of hostages who died “due to Israeli bombings may exceed 70”. There are 134 hostages in Gaza.
The last raid – And while there is talk of a truce in Gaza, people continue to die. “At least ten Palestinians were killed today in an Israeli airstrike that hit a tent in Rafah,” Gaza’s Hamas-controlled Health Ministry said in a statement to Reuters Online. The airstrike took place on an area where they were displaced Palestinian refugees, outside the Emirates hospital in the Tel Al-Sultan suburb of Rafah, southern Gaza. Gaza’s Health Ministry said the victims included a doctor who worked at the hospital. For Al-Jazeera it speaks of “eleven dead and 50 people injured”.
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The massacre of hunger – In Rafah, local sources report, a constant emergency situation remains after – under pressure from the Israeli army – there have been displaced people over a million original Palestinians from other areas of the Strip. In Dir el-Balah, local sources add, the situation is still under control also because the Israeli ground forces have not yet penetrated, although they are engaged in nearby Khan Yunis. The United States has begun dropping aid into Gaza from military aircraft: three Air Forces Central C-130s dropped 66 packages containing around 38,000 meals into Gaza at 8.30am American time, 2.30pm in Italy, two officials said USA at the Washington Post.
“The claim that we intentionally attacked the convoy and that we intentionally hit people is completely unfounded,” military spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a press briefing. We were there to protect that humanitarian operation, an operation that we ourselves had undertaken”.