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July 5 - 4, 2024 Food for thought: Truce or not the Palestinians are not going anywhere.  Read all the actual news here.

July 4 - 2, 2024 <<Gazan orphans face suffering beyond territory's borders... and <<Hamas faces growing public dissent as Gaza war erodes support... and <<Thousands scramble for safety as Israel launches airstrike on Rafah... and <<Fears of spread of disease as rotting garbage piles up in Gaza... and <<Israel's Netanyahu should leave 'immediately', former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon says... and <<Ex-officials say Gaza policy has put US at risk... and <<Israel carries out deadly strikes on southern Gaza after issuing evacuation order... and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell!

July 2 - June 30, 2024 <<Israel frees director of Gaza hospital, sparking internal political backlash... and <<Renewed Israeli orders to evacuate Khan Younis signal likely attack on Gazan city... and <<Anatomy of an Israeli disinformation campaign... and <<Another journalist killed in Israeli attack on Gaza... and <<More wounded Palestinians tell BBC the Israeli army forced them on to jeep... and <<Fighting rages in Gaza City's Shujaiya district for fourth day... and more news but most with a 'give way or go away' yell!   Click here to go throughout July and earler, 2024

June 14, 2024 Palestinian-Jordanian journalist Hiba Abu Taha sentenced to one year in prison

Related news: July 2 2024: Arrests of Palestinian journalists since start of Israel-Gaza war June 25 - 23, 2024: Press' vests do not protect them and related stories   Click here for earlier stories/news

May 23, 2024 In commemoration of Roshdi Sarraj and tribute to Shrouq Al Aila

 
When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

France 25 - July 5, 2024
<<Hamas accepts US proposal on Israeli hostages in truce talks
Hamas has accepted a US proposal to begin talks on releasing Israeli hostages, including soldiers and men, 16 days after the first phase of an agreement aimed at ending the Gaza war, a senior Hamas source told Reuters on Saturday. The militant Islamist group has dropped a demand that Israel first commit to a permanent ceasefire before signing the agreement, and would allow negotiations to achieve that throughout the six-week first phase, according to the source>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240706-hamas-accepts-us-proposal-on-gaza-truce-talks-over-israeli-hostages


Mother and child
BBC - July 5, 2024
<<Israeli strikes kill 6 in Gaza, including kids and UN worker, as stalled truce talks reemerge
Amid the latest deadly strikes, a team of Israeli negotiators is set to resume talks next week on a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal with Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Friday, signaling progress toward a deal to end the war in Gaza after negotiations appeared stuck for weeks. Separate Israeli airstrikes killed at least six people Friday, July 5 in central Gaza, including two children at a home and at least one United Nations worker, Palestinian hospital officials and first responders said - even as stalled ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas show signs of renewed momentum. Four out of every five people in Gaza - nearly two million Palestinians - have been driven into the territory's center by expanding Israeli military offensives and evacuation orders, the army estimated earlier this week. Civilians are taking shelter in makeshift tent camps and crowded urban areas - and many have been displaced multiple times. Violence also flared Friday in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces killed seven people in a raid and an airstrike, according to Palestinian health officials. And on the Israel-Lebanon border, rockets fired by militant group Hezbollah lightly wounded two Israeli soldiers, the army said, as concerns grow that these low-level clashes could escalate into a wider regional war.
Striking a home
An Israeli strike near the Maghazi refugee camp killed three adults and injured several others on Salah al-Din road, a major thoroughfare in Gaza, according to witnesses and officials at Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir al-Balah. At least one of the dead was wearing a UN vest when brought to the hospital. An adult and two kids were also killed by a strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp, officials at the hospital said. According to the Palestinian Civil Defense rescue service, that strike hit a home. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strikes, as Israel blames civilian deaths on Hamas, saying militants operate among the population. Hamas denies the claim and accuses Israel of recklessly bombing civilians.
Around 250,000 people were affected earlier in the week by an Israeli order to evacuate half of the southern city of Khan Younis and a wide swath of the surrounding area. Most Palestinians seeking safety are either heading to an Israeli-declared <safe zone> centered on a coastal area called Muwasi, or the nearby city of Deir al-Balah, said the head of the UN humanitarian office for the Palestinian territories Andrea De Domenico on Wednesday.
New movement toward a Gaza ceasefire
Amid the latest deadly strikes, a team of Israeli negotiators is set to resume talks next week on a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal with Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Friday, signaling progress toward a deal to end the war in Gaza after negotiations appeared stuck for weeks. The brief Israeli statement came hours after Hamas said its proposed amendments to a US plan for a ceasefire <have been met with a positive response by the mediators.> The Palestinian militant group said Friday there was no set date for negotiations and added that Israel's official position wasn't yet known. Netanyahu's office said negotiators will emphasize to American, Qatari and Egyptian mediators that <there are still gaps between the parties> during talks in Doha, Qatar's capital. The main sticking point in the three-phase deal appears to be getting from the first to the second phase. Hamas is concerned that Israel will restart the war after the first phase, perhaps after making unrealistic demands in the talks. Israeli officials have expressed concern that Hamas will do the same, drawing out the talks and the initial ceasefire indefinitely without releasing the remaining hostages. Away from the negotiating table, senior Hamas officials met with Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, as well as the leader of the Islamic Group. Hamas said officials also met Friday with senior delegations from the Houthi rebels in Yemen and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq. And in Washington, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke by phone with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, in which they discussed regional security challenges and Austin expressed support for ongoing diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict in Gaza.
Israeli raid in the West Bank
Palestinian authorities say seven people were killed Friday during an Israeli military operation in an area of the West Bank city of Jenin, a known militant stronghold, where the Israeli military said it carried out <counterterrorism activity> that included an airstrike. Israeli soldiers <encircled a building where terrorists have barricaded themselves in> and the soldiers exchanged fire with those inside, while an airstrike <struck several armed terrorists> in the area. The Palestinian Health Ministry said a total of seven people were killed, but did not specify whether they died in the exchange of fire or the airstrike. The Islamic Jihad militant group named four of the dead as its members. Violence has spiraled in the West Bank since the start of Israel’s war in Gaza, sparked by the Oct. 7 raid into southern Israel by Hamas militants who killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took more than 200 others as hostages. The Palestinian Health Ministry says over 500 Palestinians have since been killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank. Most were killed during Israeli raids and violent protests. The dead also include bystanders and Palestinians killed in attacks by Jewish settlers. In Gaza, Israeli bombardments and ground offensives have so far killed more than 38,000 Palestinians, Gaza's Health Ministry says. The ministry does not differentiate between combatants and civilians in its count, but it includes thousands of women and children. Israeli restrictions, ongoing fighting and the breakdown of law and order have curtailed humanitarian aid efforts, causing widespread hunger and sparking fears of famine. Back in January, the top UN court concluded there is a <plausible risk of genocide> in Gaza - a charge Israel strongly denies.
Le Monde with AP>>
Source:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/07/06/israeli-strikes-kill-6-in-gaza-including-kids-and-un-worker-as-stalled-truce-talks-reemerge_6676847_4.html


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France 25 - July 5, 2024 - by NEWS WIRES
<<Israel to send delegation to Doha for fresh Gaza ceasefire talks next week
Israel on Friday said it would send a delegation to Doha next week to negotiate a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal. <There are still gaps between the parties,> Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's spokesman said after a first round of talks that were held earlier in the day.
The statement from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's spokesman came after a delegation led by the head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, David Barnea, held a first round of talks with mediators in Doha on Friday. <It was agreed that next week Israeli negotiators will travel to Doha to continue the talks. There are still gaps between the parties,> the spokesman said in a statement. There has been no truce in the nine-month-old war in Gaza since a one-week pause in November saw 80 Israeli hostages freed in return for 240 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. The United States, which has worked alongside Qatar and Egypt in trying to broker a deal, had talked up the significance of Netanyahu's decision to send a delegation to Qatar. The United States believes Israel and Hamas have a <pretty significant opening> to reach an agreement, a senior official said. The Gaza war -- which has raised fears of a broader conflagration involving Lebanon -- began with Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel that resulted in the deaths of 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures. The militants also seized hostages, 116 of whom remain in Gaza including 42 the military says are dead. In response, Israel has carried out a military offensive that has killed at least 38,011 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled territory.
'Ball in Israel's court'
US President Joe Biden announced a pathway to a truce deal in May that he said had been proposed by Israel. It included an initial six-week truce, Israeli withdrawal from Gaza population centres and the freeing of hostages by Palestinian militants. Talks subsequently stalled but the US official said on Thursday that the new proposal from Hamas <moves the process forward and may provide the basis for closing the deal,> though <significant work> remained. Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan told AFP that new ideas from the group had been <conveyed by the mediators to the American side, which welcomed them and passed them on to the Israeli side. Now the ball is in the Israeli court.> Hamdan blamed Israel for the deadlock since Biden's announcement and said the Doha talks <will be a test for the US administration to see if it is willing to pressure the Zionist entity to accept these proposed ideas>. The war has uprooted 90 percent of Gaza's population, destroyed much of the territory's housing and other infrastructure, and left almost 500,000 people enduring <catastrophic> hunger, UN agencies say. The main stumbling block to a truce deal has been Hamas's demand for a permanent end to the fighting, which Netanyahu and his far-right coalition partners strongly reject. The Israeli leader has faced a well-organised protest movement demanding a deal to free the hostages, which took to the streets again on Thursday evening.
Netanyahu insists the war will not end until Israel destroys Hamas and the hostages are freed. The head of the World Health Organisation warned that <further disruption to health services is imminent in Gaza due to a severe lack of fuel>. Only 90,000 litres (20,000 gallons) of fuel entered Gaza on Wednesday, but the health sector alone needs 80,000 litres each day. The WHO and its partners in Gaza were having <to make impossible choices> as a result, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Hamas-Hezbollah talks
US officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, have voiced hope that a ceasefire in Gaza could lead to an easing of violence on the Israel-Lebanon border as well. Since the war began, Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement has exchanged near-daily cross-border fire with the Israeli army in support of its Palestinian ally. The exchanges have intensified over the past month after Israel killed senior Hezbollah commanders in targeted air strikes. Hezbollah said it fired more than 200 rockets and <explosive drones> at army positions in northern Israel and the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights in its latest round of reprisals on Thursday. A military source said the rocket fire killed a soldier in northern Israel. Hamas said Friday that its foreign relations chief Khalil al-Hayya had met Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to coordinate their <resistance efforts> and the upcoming truce negotiations.
(AFP)>>
Source incl. video:
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240705-israeli-team-expected-in-qatar-for-talks-on-gaza-deal

BBC - July 4, 2024 - By Yolande Knell, BBC Middle East correspondent
<<Israel settlements drive heightens Palestinian land angst
The current Israeli government backs expanding settlements in the West Bank. Palestinian officials have condemned a dramatic new settlement drive by Israel in the occupied West Bank which includes retroactively authorising three outposts. The move is set to further stoke tensions in the territory which has seen a surge in violence since the war in Gaza began on 7 October. Palestinians claim the West Bank as part of their hoped-for future state. Settlements are widely seen as illegal under international law although Israel disagrees. The three unauthorised outposts that have now been legalised under Israeli law were described as new neighbourhoods of existing settlements. They are in sensitive areas in the Jordan Valley and near the southern city of Hebron. In addition, the Israeli anti-settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Thursday that Israeli authorities had approved or advanced plans for 5,295 homes in dozens of settlements. It also emerged this week that the Israeli government's Higher Planning Council had approved the largest seizure of West Bank land in over three decades. Some 12,700 dunams (5 sq miles) has been seized in the Jordan Valley and declared as Israeli state land. This year has marked a peak in the extent of declarations of state land with a total of 23,700 dunams affected.
The Palestinian president's spokesman, Nabil Abu Rdeinah, said the new announcements confirmed that Israel's <extremist government is bound by the right-wing policy of war and settlement>. He said the latest steps would not <achieve security and peace for anyone> and were meant to prevent the establishment of a geographically contiguous Palestinian state in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip. Last week, Israel's security cabinet decided to authorise retroactively five settlement outposts built without official government approval. The UN, the UK and other countries denounced the move as undermining hopes for the two-state solution - the internationally approved formula for peace that would see the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. <Israel must halt its illegal settlement expansion and hold to account those responsible for extremist settler violence,> the British Foreign Office said. <The UK's priority is to bring the Gaza conflict to a sustainable end as quickly as possible and ensure a lasting peace in the Middle East, through an irreversible pathway towards a two-state solution.> The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not immediately respond to a BBC request for comment on the overall strategy for the West Bank. However, the far-right Israeli minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who lives in a West Bank settlement, has welcomed the recent steps. <We are building the good land and thwarting the establishment of a Palestinian state,> he said Wednesday on social media platform X. Not counting annexed east Jerusalem, about half a million settlers live in the West Bank alongside three million Palestinians. Last year, Mr Smotrich instructed government departments to prepare to double the number of settlers to one million. Since Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East War, successive Israeli administrations have allowed settlements to grow. However, expansion has risen sharply since Mr Netanyahu returned to power in late 2022 at the head of a hardline, pro-settler governing coalition. Last month, Peace Now released the recording of an address by Mr Smotrich to his Religious Zionism party, in which he proposes transferring the management of settlements from military to civilian officials, building a separate road bypass system for settlers, expanding farming outposts and cracking down on unauthorised Palestinian construction. Peace Now warned that the plan would irreversibly change the way the West Bank was governed and lead to <de facto annexation”.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czq61w10qwpo

BBC - July 4, 2024 - By Raffi Berg
<<Israel tells Gaza ceasefire negotiators to resume work
There has been no progress towards a ceasefire since Biden's announcement five weeks ago
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to send a team of negotiators to discuss a hostage release deal with Hamas. US President Joe Biden welcomed the development, which comes a day after Hamas responded to a Gaza ceasefire plan he outlined in late May. The last indirect talks took place in Cairo earlier that month. Details of Hamas's latest response have not been made public, but a Palestinian official told the BBC that the group was no longer demanding a full ceasefire at the outset of the plan presented by Mr Biden. A senior US administration official said Hamas had agreed to <pretty significant adjustments> to its position. <We've had a breakthrough on a critical impasse,> the US official said, although he stressed that <this does not mean this deal is going to be closed in the period of days>. President Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu held a phone call on Thursday, which focused on the hostages and ceasefire negotiations, the official said. On Wednesday, Hamas's political leadership said it had contacted mediators from Egypt and Qatar about ideas it had been discussing with the aim of reaching an agreement. Up to now Hamas has demanded an end to the war and a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. Israel says it will accept only temporary pauses in the fighting, until it eliminates Hamas. When he announced the plan on 31 May, President Biden said it was based on a more detailed Israeli proposal, and that it involved three phases. The first would include a <full and complete ceasefire> lasting six weeks, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from populated areas of Gaza, and the exchange of some of the hostages - including women, the elderly and the sick or wounded - for Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. The second phase would involve the release of all other living hostages and a <permanent end to hostilities>. The third phase the start of a major reconstruction plan for Gaza and the return of dead hostages' remains. After the two leaders' phone call on Thursday, the Israeli government said in a statement: <Prime Minister Netanyahu updated President Biden on his decision to send a delegation to continue the hostage negotiations and reiterated the principles that Israel is committed to, especially its commitment to end the war only after all of its goals have been achieved.> Mr Netanyahu has declared his objectives to be the return of all remaining hostages, the destruction of Hamas's military and governing capabilities, and ensuring Gaza no longer constitutes a threat to Israel. The White House said Mr Biden <welcomed the prime minister's decision to authorise his negotiators to engage with US, Qatari, and Egyptian mediators in an effort to close out the deal>. A source in the Israeli negotiating team meanwhile told Reuters news agency that Hamas's response included <a very significant breakthrough> and that there was <a deal with a real chance of implementation>. A senior Palestinian official told the BBC earlier on Thursday that Hamas had given up the demand for a complete ceasefire. Its new conditions, the official said, related to the withdrawal of Israeli forces from a strip of land running along Gaza's southern border with Egypt, known as the Philadelphi corridor, and from the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt. The source, who was informed of the response Hamas submitted to the mediators, added that the atmosphere was positive. <We are going to a new round of negotiations soon,> the source said.
The US has accused Hamas of blocking progress towards a ceasefire.
On Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the group was the <one exception> to international support for the ceasefire proposal. Hamas, he said, had created <gaps... in not saying yes to a proposal that everyone, including the Israelis, had said yes to>. Prime Minister Netanyahu has said he is <committed to the Israeli proposal welcomed by President Biden>, although he has not publicly endorsed the outline as it was laid out.
The war was triggered by Hamas's unprecedented attack on Israel on 7 October in which Hamas-led gunmen killed about 1,200 people and took 251 others back to Gaza as hostages. At least 38,010 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as a result of Israel's offensive, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. Hamas and allied armed groups are believed to still be holding 116 hostages who were taken on 7 October. At least 42 are presumed by Israeli authorities to be dead. The others have been released, rescued or their bodies recovered. Four other Israelis have been held hostage since 2014 and 2015, two of whom are presumed dead.>>
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3gvp5q9y2go


Gaza's population displaced
Jinha - Womens News Agency - July 4, 2024
<<90 percent of Gaza's population displaced since Oct.7
About 90% of the population of the Gaza Strip have been displaced at least once since October 7, 2023, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
News Center- About 90% of the population of the Gaza Strip have been displaced at least once since October 7, 2023, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
'Nine in every 10 people in the Gaza Strip have been internally displaced at least once'
<About 1.9 million people are thought to be displaced in Gaza, said Andrea De Domenico, head of the UN's OCHA agency in the Palestinian territories. <We estimate that nine in every 10 people in the Gaza Strip have been internally displaced at least once, if not up to 10 times, unfortunately, since October,> he told reporters on Wednesday. <Before we were estimating 1.7 (million) but since that number, we had the operation in Rafah, and we had additional displacement from Rafah.> Andrea De Domenico emphasized how the situation in the Gaza Strip is serious and said, <Behind these numbers, there are people ... that have fears and grievances. And they probably had dreams and hopes; the less and less, I fear today, unfortunately. People who in the last nine months have been moved around like pawns in a board game.> >>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/90-percent-of-gaza-s-population-displaced-since-oct-7-35326

Le Monde - July 4, 2024 - By Benjamin Barthe, Louis Imbert (Jerusalem correspondent), Helene Sallon (Beirut (Lebanon) correspondent) and Piotr Smolar (Washington (United States) correspondent)
<<Israel-Hamas war: Who are the five key negotiators of the unattainable ceasefire?
The plan Joe Biden presented last week to end the war has reactivated the indirect negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement. It's a complex process, orchestrated by the US on one side and Egyptian and Qatari mediators on the other. The <roadmap to a lasting ceasefire> presented by Joe Biden on Friday, May 31, has relaunched the laborious process of negotiations aimed at ending the fighting in Gaza and freeing the Israeli hostages held in the enclave. The signal for the resumption of these negotiations, which had been at a standstill since the Israeli army entered Rafah at the beginning of May, was given by the return to Doha on June 5 of William Burns, the head of the CIA. The American president's plan for ending the crisis, which was deemed <positive> by Hamas but more coolly received by Israel, provides for a return to calm in three phases. The first includes a six-week ceasefire, accompanied by an Israeli withdrawal from urban areas of Gaza and the release of certain hostages (women, children and the elderly), in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. The disagreement between the two belligerents mainly concerns the second phase, which is intended to put an end to hostilities, lead to the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from the enclave and the return of the last hostages. The third phase concerns the reconstruction of Gaza. Hamas is demanding guarantees that the Israeli offensive will not resume as soon as it has freed the Israeli captives. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is afraid of tying his hands. Formalizing the end of the war would expose him to attacks from the ultranationalist wing of his government, which dreams of recolonizing Palestinian territory. It is up to the three mediators in the crisis - the United States, Qatar and Egypt - to find the right terms and pass on the messages likely to satisfy the hardly compatible demands of the two warring parties. Le Monde unpacks this complex five-player game, profiling the key figures in the negotiations. David Barnea, Israel's master spy. In these negotiations, David Barnea, the director of the Mossad, has the difficult task of carrying the word of a deeply divided government. Alongside Major General Nitzan Alon, in charge of hostages and missing persons, and intelligence chief Ronen Bar, he is leading a team that, according to several sources close to the negotiators, is becoming less and less willing to conceal its <immense frustration.> They are faced with Hamas' inflexibility, of course, but also, and above all, with Netanyahu. The same sources suspect the Israeli prime minister of <sabotaging> their efforts, in order to <prolong the war> and keep himself in power, while satisfying his far-right allies, who are campaigning for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.>>
Read more here:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/06/07/israel-hamas-war-who-are-the-five-key-negotiators-of-the-unattainable-ceasefire_6674144_4.html

Le Monde with AFP - July 4, 2024
<<Israel announces sending delegation for Gaza hostage negotiations
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, after a call with US President Joe Biden, that he had decided 'to send a delegation' to 'negotiations for freeing the hostages,' as part of long-running talks mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States. Relatives and supporters of Israelis held hostage by Palestinian militants in Gaza since the October attacks lift flags and placards as they demonstrate calling for their release in the central city of Tel Aviv on June 29, 2024. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Thursday, July 4, that he has agreed to send a delegation for talks on securing the release of hostages seized in the October 7 attacks. In a statement after telephone talks with US President Joe Biden, Netanyahu's office said: <The prime minister updated President Biden about his decision to send a delegation that would continue negotiations for freeing the hostages.> There was no indication where the delegation would go or when it would leave. Netanyahu called a meeting of his security cabinet for late Thursday to discuss proposals sent by Hamas through Qatari mediators to end the Gaza conflict, media reports said.
Hamas has demanded an end to fighting and an Israeli withdrawal as a prelude to any hostage deal. Israel has countered that there can be no end to the war without the release of hostages in the Palestinian territory. Netanyahu has also repeatedly vowed that the Gaza campaign will not end until Hamas's military and government capabilities have been destroyed. Hamas said late on Wednesday that it had sent new <ideas> for a potential deal and Netanyahu's office said the government was <evaluating> them. Qatar, Egypt and the United States have been mediating between the two sides and sources close to their efforts said there had been a renewed push to bridge the <gaps> between the foes in recent weeks. Biden announced a pathway to a truce deal in May which he said had been proposed by Israel and which included a six-week truce to allow for talks and eventually a programme to rebuild devastated Gaza.>>
Source:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/07/04/israel-announces-sending-delegation-for-gaza-hostage-negotiations_6676704_4.html

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