Middle East crisis live: Ceasefire deal possible
within 24 to 48 hours if Israel accepts demands, Hamas official says
Senior Hamas official says if Israel accepts
demand for military withdrawal from Gaza and increase in aid, it would pave way
for agreement
From 1h ago
10.15 CET
Truce possible ‘within 24 to 48 hours’ if Israel
accepts demands - Hamas official
A senior
Hamas official told AFP that if Israel were to meet its demands - which include
a military withdrawal from Gaza and stepped-up humanitarian aid - this would
“pave the way for an agreement within the next 24-48 hours”.
Envoys from
the US, Qatar and Hamas have reportedly already arrived in Cairo, as all sides
have been scrambling to agree a truce before Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month
that begins on March 10/11.
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13m ago
11.29 CET
The
executive director of Unicef, Catherine Russell, has called for a “humanitarian
ceasefire now”, saying that “every minute counts” for children in Gaza facing
severe malnutrition.
Russell
said she was horrified to hear that at least ten children in Gaza had died of
malnutrition and dehydration.
She wrote
on X:
Severe
malnutrition can be deadly or leave young children with permanent cognitive
& physical damage.
For
children in Gaza, every minute counts in safely accessing nutrition, water,
medical care & protection from bullets & bombs. This requires a
humanitarian ceasefire NOW.
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41m ago
11.02 CET
Here are
some of the latest images to come out of Rafah, where an estimated 1.5 million
people are sheltering:
Palestinians
mourn as they receive the dead bodies of people killed by an Israeli strike in
Rafah, Gaza.
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Palestinians
mourn as they receive the dead bodies of people killed by an Israeli strike in
Rafah, Gaza. Photograph: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images
Aftermath
of an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Aftermath
of an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph:
Mohammed Salem/Reuters
Relatives
of a Palestinian family search with others for those missing under the rubble
of their home destroyed by an Israeli air strike at the Rafah refugee camp.
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Relatives
of a Palestinian family search with others for those missing under the rubble
of their home destroyed by an Israeli air strike at the Rafah refugee camp.
Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPA
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54m ago
10.49 CET
Gaza’s
health ministry says that 15 children have died from malnutrition and
dehydration at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza City.
Al Jazeera
reports:
On Friday,
the hospital director announced the death of seven children, noting that they
suffered from severe dehydration and malnutrition.
The
hospital has been out of service for months due to Israel’s attacks and lack of
fuel and medicine.
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1h ago
10.47 CET
Most
Palestinians killed near aid trucks died in stampede - IDF
Israel’s
military has completed a preliminary review of the killing of over 100
Palestinian people near aid trucks last week, which determined that Israeli
forces did not strike the convoy and that most Palestinians died in a stampede,
the military spokesperson has said.
Palestinian
authorities say, however, that Israeli forces carried out a massacre, opening
fire on a crowd of people who had gathered in the hope that food would be
distributed.
“The IDF
has concluded an initial review of the unfortunate incident where Gazan
civilians were trampled to death and injured as they charged to the aid
convoy,” IDF spokesperson R Adm Daniel Hagari said on Sunday.
The review,
he said, which gathered information from commanders and forces in the field,
determined that no strike was carried out towards the aid convoy.
Hagari
said:
The
majority of Palestinians were killed or injured as a result of the stampede.
Following
the warning shots fired to disperse the stampede and after our forces had
started retreating, several looters approached our forces and posed an
immediate threat to them. According to the initial review, the soldiers
responded toward several individuals.
This
account stands in stark contrast to that of Gaza health officials, who said
last week that at least 112 people were killed and 280 injured after Israeli
forces opened fire on the aid distribution point.
The
Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said it was an “ugly massacre conducted
by the Israeli occupation army on people who waited for aid trucks at the
Nabulsi roundabout”.
France’s
foreign ministry said “the fire by Israeli soldiers against civilians trying to
access food is unjustifiable”.
10.50 CET
1h ago
10.15 CET
Truce possible ‘within 24 to 48 hours’ if Israel
accepts demands - Hamas official
A senior
Hamas official told AFP that if Israel were to meet its demands - which include
a military withdrawal from Gaza and stepped-up humanitarian aid - this would
“pave the way for an agreement within the next 24-48 hours”.
Envoys from
the US, Qatar and Hamas have reportedly already arrived in Cairo, as all sides
have been scrambling to agree a truce before Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month
that begins on March 10/11.
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2h ago
09.49 CET
Hamas delegation arrives in Cairo for Gaza
ceasefire talks
As we
mentioned in our opening summary, Reuters has reported that a Hamas delegation
has arrived in Cairo to hold sensitive ceasefire talks on Gaza.
The
delegation is being led by Hamas’ deputy chief in Gaza, Khalil Al-Hayya, a
senior official told the outlet.
A
Palestinian official familiar with the truce talks told Reuters that they were
not yet close to finalising a deal, when asked if one was imminent.
An Israeli
delegation is also expected to arrive in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, to take
part in the talks.
US
officials have claimed that Israel has provisionally accepted a six-week phased
hostage and ceasefire deal which would begin with the release of wounded,
elderly and female hostages, but it was unclear on Saturday whether Hamas would
accept it.
2h ago
09.44 CET
Death toll in Gaza reaches 30,410, says health
ministry
At least
30,410 Palestinians have been killed and 71,700 injured in Israeli strikes on
Gaza since 7 October, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
Most of the
casualties have been women and children, the ministry has said, and thousands
more bodies are likely to remain uncounted under rubble across Gaza.
The health
ministry in the Gaza strip said at least 90 Palestinians had been killed by
Israel in the past 24 hours, including 14 family members whose house in the
southern Rafah refugee camp had been hit.
Opening summary
A Hamas delegation arrived in Cairo, the Egyptian
capital, on Sunday to hold ceasefire talks on Gaza, a senior official told
Reuters, after talks took place in Doha, the Qatari capital, on Saturday.
The
delegation is being led by Hamas’ deputy chief in Gaza, Khalil Al-Hayya, the
official said.
Israel is
reported to be close to accepting a six-week ceasefire proposal for Gaza, a
senior Biden administration official told several US news outlets on Saturday.
The official said there was a “framework deal” and Israel had “more or less
accepted” a ceasefire to allow for the release of Hamas-held hostages in Gaza
and to allow aid into the territory that has been devastated by four months of
bombardment, killing more than 30,000 people. However, the official said a
“defined category of vulnerable hostages” had not yet been agreed – a sticking
point to an agreement.
In the Red
Sea, the US military confirmed on Saturday that the UK-owned vessel Rubymar had
sunk after being struck by an anti-ship ballistic missile fired by Yemeni
Houthi militants on 18 February.
“The
approximately 21,000 metric tons of ammonium phosphate sulfate fertilizer that
the vessel was carrying presents an environmental risk in the Red Sea,” US
Central Command said.
In other
developments:
Israeli
forces struck tents housing displaced Palestinians near a hospital in Rafah,
killing 11 people and injuring dozens on Saturday, according to Gaza’s health
officials. A paramedic was among those killed and children were also injured in
the strikes, which occurred near the Emirati maternity hospital, a spokesperson
for the Gaza health ministry said.
The US
air force began airdrops of aid over Gaza on Saturday in a joint operation with
Jordan in a last-resort attempt to get food into the besieged strip as mass
starvation looms. US and Jordanian planes dropped 38,000 meals in the first of
a series of airdrops that US President Joe Biden announced on Friday, US
officials said.
Israeli
forces arrested 14 members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), the
organisation said. In a tweet on Saturday, it said: “PRCS expresses deep
concern for the safety of its detained teams, whose fate remains unknown, and
calls on the international community to urgently intervene to pressure the
Israeli occupation authorities to immediately release our detained colleagues.”
The US
vice-president, Kamala Harris, will meet with Israeli war cabinet member Benny
Gantz on Monday, a White House official told Reuters. The meeting was expected
to cover topics including reducing Palestinian casualties, securing a temporary
ceasefire, hostage release and an increase in aid flow.
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