Egypt and Qatar, the main intermediaries of talks to end the war against the Gaza Strip, expressed a “serious concern” concerning the escalation of violence and deaths in the territory of the Palestinians in the Israeli head, stressing the continuous efforts to make a ceasefire.
In a joint declaration published Monday during a visit by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi in Qatar, Cairo and Doha reiterated their support for the Gaza reconstruction plan supported by Arabic.
The affirmation is faced with calls from the United States and Israel to portray the territory, that criticisms and rights for the rights of rights have called ethnic cleaning.
The two countries have also announced their intention to organize an international conference in Egypt “in cooperation with regional and international partners, in order to coordinate humanitarian and development efforts to improve the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the strip”.
Later on Monday, an official said that Hamas had rejected a cease-fire proposal transmitted by Egypt who would force the Palestinian group to disarm.
The initiative provides 45 days of calm that would see the release of the remaining Israeli captives in exchange for the authorization of food and the shelter in Gaza, said the unidentified Hamas official in Tel Aviv Tribune Arabic.
“Our negotiation delegation was surprised that the proposal transmitted by Egypt understands an explicit text on the disarmament of the resistance,” said the source. “Egypt informed us that there will be no agreement to stop war without negotiating the disarmament of the resistance”.
The official added that the group stressed in Egypt that the key to reaching an agreement is the full Israeli withdrawal and ending the war against Gaza, not in Hamas.
For its part, the Egyptian declaration-Qatari underlined the need to “guarantee the delivery of urgent humanitarian aid to civilians and to support reconstruction efforts” in Gaza.
Qatar and Egypt underlined the “centrality of the Palestinian cause of the Arabs”, calling for the creation of a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 – in Gaza and in occupied West Bank – with Eastern Jerusalem as capital.
El-Sissi met the Emir Qatari Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, a few days after US President Donald Trump renewed his call to retirement from all Gaza Palestinians.
With full support in the United States, Israel resumed its assault against Gaza last month and imposed a total seat on the territory, cutting all medical foods and supplies to the Palestinians.
Israel and Hamas had accepted a three-phase ceasefire in January, leading to a six-week break in the fighting.
But after the end of the first stage, which saw Hamas release dozens of Israeli captives, Israel refused to negotiate during the second phase of the agreement or to engage in a permanent finish in the war.
Since the restart of the offensive, Israel has killed more than 1,600 Palestinians, regularly targeting medical establishments, civil shelters and humanitarian workers.
On Monday, an Israeli attack on the Tuffah district of Gaza City killed at least six civilians, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Separately, Tareq Abu Azzoum from Tel Aviv Tribune reported that a air strike dam had struck the “safe zone” designated by Al-Mawasi in the south of Gaza, killing at least one person.
In addition to its bombings, Israel has once again moved the Palestinians by the thousands.
On Saturday, the Israeli army announced the creation of a new “corridor” to cut Rafah, the most southern city of Gaza, from the rest of the territory, which makes it fear that Israel seeks to annex the region.
Since the start of the war in October 2023, the Israeli army has killed at least 50,983 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the health authorities of the territory. Thousands of others have disappeared and are presumed dead under the rubble.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said that at least 38 people were killed by Israeli attacks on Sunday.
The United Nations experts and the main rights defending groups accused Israel of having carried out a genocide against the Palestinians.
The Gaza Government’s media office accused Israel of imposing a policy of “systemic famine” against the Palestinians and rejected plans for Israel to control the distribution of humanitarian aid – a task currently undertaken by help groups and United Nations agencies.
“We warn against the plan that the Israeli occupation is trying to continue by establishing or using security companies and suspicious parties to distribute humanitarian aid,” said the office.
He added that the plan aims to advance Israel’s “colonial program” under the cover of humanitarian aid.
Last year, the International Criminal Court published an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged war crimes in Gaza, in particular using famine as a weapon of war.
