Biden presses Netanyahu on securing ceasefire deal to halt 10-month war but Israel and Hamas continue to stick to their demands in talks
Biden presses Netanyahu on securing ceasefire deal to halt 10-month war but Israel and Hamas continue to stick to their demands in talks Palestinians watch as smoke rises from a building hit by an Israel i strike in the Rimal neighbourhood of central Gaza City on Wednesday.
Photograph: Omar al-Qattaa/AFP via Gettyon the urgency of sealing a deal for a truce in Gaza and the release of hostages, the White House said.In the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, a strike on a house killed 11 people, including children and women, the bodies of some of whom had been burnt, according to the Hamas-run territory’s Civil Emergency Service.Biden speaks to Netanyahu after Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza Medics said another strike killed six people, including a local journalist, in a house in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, medics said while five others were killed in separate strikes in the south. Later on Thursday, five Palestinians were killed and several wounded in an Israeli air strike that hit people near a square in Khan Younis, health officials said. Palestinian children carry pots of soup near a food distribution point in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on Wednesday. Photograph: Omar al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty The Israeli military said its forces had intensified their operations in Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza, and Khan Younis, in the south, dismantling dozens of military structures, locating rockets, and killing militants, over the past 24 hours. It said forces killed 50 militants in the area of Rafah, in the far south of the enclave, over the past day. The armed wing of Hamas said fighters ambushed an Israeli force in Rafah, killing and wounding several of them. A phone call between Mr Biden and Mr Netanyahu late on Wednesday followed a whirlwind trip to the region by US secretary of state Antony Blinken that ended on Tuesday without producing a breakthrough in the 10-month-old war. Hamas wants a deal that ends the war in Gaza and releases Israeli and foreign hostages in Gaza in return for the freedom of many Palestinians jailed by Israel. It blames Israel and the United States for the failure to conclude a deal. Netanyahu says the war will only end once Hamas is defeated, and that a ceasefire to allow the exchange of hostages and prisoners would be only a temporary pause while the militant group remains a threat. He denies obstructing a deal. In the central Gaza town of Deir Al-Balah, which houses around 1 million residents and displaced Palestinians, according to the municipal council, residents said tanks advanced further from the east and blocked some roads connecting the city with the nearby Khan Younis in the south. Israeli tanks have also advanced to the west, in Al-Karara and Hamad areas of Khan Younis, pushing more families out of their shelters and tents, sometimes under heavy fire from tanks and drones, residents said.“Last night drones began firing towards the tents, we ducked down, for maybe hours, then the noise of tanks got louder as they advanced closer, so we decided to run,” Imad Al-Ghalayeeni, 48, told Reuters by phone from Khan Younis.“We are five families, 48 persons, we ran to the beach, some slept on the road, others slept onshore, just on the sand with no tents, no blankets or mattresses and you can imagine how terrified were the children and women,” he added. Ghalayeeni said there was growing disillusionment among Palestinians in Gaza about the ceasefire talks. “These talks are time-wasting, and they aim to give Netanyahu the time he needs to continue what he is doing. There is no place the tanks didn’t enter, or bomb, and there is nowhere safe any more,” he said. Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million population has been displaced multiple times since the start of the war. Even in areas designated safe zones, there have been regular reports of casualties from Israeli strikes. In a hospital in the northern Gaza camp of Jabilia, health officials said they were forced to suspend several services in the facility, except for life-saving treatment, after they ran out of fuel. Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 40,000 people in Gaza since October, according to Palestinian health authorities. The war began on October 7th, 2023, when Hamas gunmen stormed into Israeli communities and military bases, killing around 1,200 people and abducting about 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. – ReutersDistance between Israel and Hamas has not been narrowed by US amendmentsGen Z are drinking far less than their parents. That’s not all good news Salmon that escaped from fish farm have been found in three of Ireland’s most important angling riversMobile phones set to be banned across all second-level schools under new Government plansUkraine and Russia claim capture of villages in opposing territories amid Kyiv’s ongoing Kursk incursion
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