Framework for six-week pause is in place, path to ceasefire ‘straightforward’, US official says
People look for salvageable items amid the rubble of a Mosque and makeshift shelters in central Gaza. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images, sources with knowledge of the talks said, after foreign governments resorted to airdrops to aid desperate civilians in the Palestinian enclave.
Mr Biden has said he hopes a ceasefire will be in place by the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which starts on March 10th. Israel disputes the health ministry's death toll in the food convoy catastrophe and said most victims were trampled or run over. Fighting raged in the early hours of Sunday, as residents reported the sound of heavy shelling and tanks advancing around Khan Younis, a city in the southern Gaza Strip.
However, the Egyptian sources said assurances had been offered to Hamas that the terms of a permanent ceasefire would be worked out in second and third phases of the deal. The duration of the initial pause of about six weeks had been agreed upon, the sources said.US drops aid over Gaza as world leaders call for action over killing of Palestinians at relief convoy
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