Hamas says that it agreed to release 10 Israeli captives in continuous efforts to reach a ceasefire in the besieged and bombed Gaza Strip, but warned that the current talks for a truce were “difficult” due to Israel’s “intransogus”.
The comments on Wednesday came when Israeli forces killed at least 74 people in Gaza, and the President of the United States, Donald Trump, again expressed hope that a truce could be contacted soon.
Hamas said that talks, led by key mediators from Qatar and the United States, have several collage points, including the flow of desperately necessary help, the withdrawal of the Israeli Gaza forces and “real guarantees for a permanent cease-fire”.
The head of Hamas, Taher al-nununu, said that the group had accepted the last truce proposal and “offered the flexibility necessary to protect our people, stop the crime of genocide and allow free and dignified entry and the flow of help to our people until we reached a complete end to war”.
He added that areas that Israeli troops should withdraw within the first phase of a cease-fire should be written in a way that does not affect Palestinian life and “opens the way to the second phase of negotiations”.
In Washington, DC, Trump, who met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House twice this week, said that there was a “very good luck” of a ceasefire in Gaza, although his last comments seem to reduce his expectations.
“I think we have a chance this week or this next week. Not certainly. There is nothing final in the war and Gaza and all the other places with which we treat so much,” he told journalists. “But there is a very good chance that we have a regulation, any agreement, this week and maybe next week otherwise.”
`Death, darkness ”
Patty Culhane d’Tel Aviv Tribune, reporting from Washington, DC, said that Trump, although optimistic, was “not as categorical as when he demanded a cease-fire” before Netanyahu’s visit in the American capital.
“We hear Trump collaborators that they are one problem. But Hamas says that it is disinformation, that they still need guarantees that the ceasefire will continue beyond 60 days, that they still have to agree where the Israeli troops withdraw, and which would manage the distribution of humanitarian aid.
In Israel, for his part, Israeli military leader Eyal Zamir said in a television speech that “conditions have been created” for the progress of an agreement which should see the liberation of 10 captives which are alive and the bodies of nine others.
Despite the prospects of a cease-fire, Israeli forces continued to attack various parts of the enclave, killing at least 74 people on Wednesday, eight of whom died pending food at a distribution point of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation supported by the United States (GHF).
“Unfortunately, this has become the standard, characterized by the undergoing bombardment and forced famine and dehydration. People are killed while trying to get food,” said Hani Mahmoud of Tel Aviv Tribune, postponing Gaza City.
The number of Palestinians killed on GHF sites exceeded 770, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
“From the first day of GHF operations, there was an orgy of murder, either by the Israeli army, or the documented incident of GHF officers opening fire.”
The murders also came while health officials are pleading once again for the fuel entry essential for hospitals on the verge of collapse, and patients’ life is in danger.
Nasser hospital, the main health establishment in the south of Gaza, issued a desperate warning because its fuel supplies were in dry, saying that it had entered “the last hours and last hours”.
“With the fuel counter near zero, the doctors entered the battle to save lives in a race against time, death and darkness,” the hospital said in a statement.
“They work in operating rooms without air conditioning, the boiling heat, their faces sweat, their bodies are tired of hunger and fatigue. But their eyes always burn hope and determination. ”
Gaza’s already beaten health system has repeatedly noted the Israeli attack throughout the assault. Hospitals and clinics have been bombed or damaged, medical staff were killed or forced to flee, and vital supplies have been cut.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says that there have been more than 600 attacks on health establishments in Gaza since the start of the conflict in 2023.
The besieged health sector is “on their knees”, he said, with serious shortages of fuel and medical supplies, and the constant influx of mass victims.
According to the United Nations agency, only 18 of the 36 general hospitals in Gaza operate in part.
‘Earthquake bombs’
In Gaza City, Israel has launched a missile dam targeting densely populated residential areas.
The Mahmoud of Tel Aviv Tribune said that around 20 bombs had been abandoned on the buildings of the Tuffah district.
“They were” trembling bombs “, they shook the buildings,” he said.
Israeli forces also launched another major assault in northern Gaza Batu, especially Beit Hanoon, after five Israeli soldiers were killed on Tuesday in a surprise attack by Hamas.
The Israeli army has published numerous threats of evacuation in recent days for residents of Northern Gaza, an area which has been the subject of repeated land and air aggression throughout this deadly war.
This includes the SHATI refugee camp, an area north of Gaza which was struck overnight in an attack that killed at least 30 people.
A room, Mohamed Jouda, said the attack.
“We were sitting at the house, around midnight. Suddenly, the house collapsed on everyone inside – children, adults and the elderly in the 1970s and 80s,” Jouda told Tel Aviv Tribune when he was sitting on the rubble of his destroyed house.
Another survivor, Ismail Al-Bardawil, said that the attack “looked like an earthquake”.
“An entire district has collapsed,” he said in the camp densely populated west of Gaza City, where the structures are built one side by side.
“Seven little children died here. There, 10 other children. The only adult was an old man, about 70 years old. What was their fault? ” Al-Bardawil said.