The war between Israel and Hamas entered its seventh month today as US and other negotiators were expected to meet both sides in Cairo in a renewed push for a ceasefire and hostage release deal.
Egypt's Al-Qahera News said CIA Director Bill Burns and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani would join Egyptian mediators for indirect talks between the Israeli and Hamas delegations.
"It's been six months of targeting anything it seems moves," Spanish-American celebrity chef and WCK founder José Andrés told ABC News.The deaths of the aid workers led to a tense call between US President Joe Biden and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli military announced today another four of its troops had been killed in Gaza, bringing the toll to 260 since the beginning of ground operations in late October.
Stop-start talks have made no headway since a week-long truce in November saw some hostages exchanged for Palestinian prisoners detained by Israel. Israel's opposition chief Yair Lapid headed to Washington yesterday for talks with top officials, his centrist Yesh Atid party said. The Israeli military announced it was firing two officers after finding a series of errors led to the drone strikes that killed the WCK workers.
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