Gaza Metropolis:
Hamas representatives will go to Cairo on Saturday for talks on a potential ceasefire in Gaza, an official within the Palestinian militant group informed AFP on Friday.
“A Hamas delegation will go to Cairo tomorrow for a number of conferences with Egyptian officers to debate concepts for a ceasefire and a prisoner accord within the Gaza Strip,” the official stated, talking on situation of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the subject.
The announcement got here two days after a ceasefire went into impact between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah, a Hamas ally.
America has additionally introduced a brand new diplomatic effort with Qatar, Turkey and Egypt to succeed in a Gaza ceasefire and the discharge of hostages taken throughout Hamas’s October 7, 2023, assaults on Israel that set off the present combating.
That assault on Israel resulted within the deaths of 1,207 folks, most of them civilians, based on an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Israel’s retaliatory navy offensive has killed 44,363 folks in Gaza, based on figures from the territory’s well being ministry, which the United Nations considers dependable.
Some 251 hostages had been additionally taken on October 7, and 97 are believed nonetheless in Gaza, together with 34 individuals who the Israeli military says are useless.
The one ceasefire to date, in November 2023, noticed the discharge of about 100 hostages by Hamas and its allies in alternate for 240 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
America, Qatar and Egypt have led a number of failed efforts because the begin of the 12 months to succeed in a brand new ceasefire and hostage launch.
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