At least 19 people were killed overnight in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, as mediators hope to seal a ceasefire deal after months of contentious negotiations.
Israeli airstrikes on Gaza caused the death of at least 19 people overnight, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to the region on Sunday to seal a ceasefire deal.
The latest Israeli bombardment hit a home early Sunday in the central city of Deir al-Balah. A woman and her six children were among the deadaccording to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
Mohammed Awad Khatab, the children’s grandfather, said his daughter, a schoolteacher, was with her husband and children when their house was hit. The children’s ages ranged from 18 months to 15 years, he said, adding that the father was hospitalized after the attack.
Other attack in the northern city of Jabaliya He reached two apartments in a residential building. Two men, a woman and her daughter diedaccording to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for UNRWA, the UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, released a video showing the magnitude of damage caused by Israelduring the 10 months of war in northern Gaza.
Other attack in central Gaza killed four peopleaccording to Awda Hospital, and late Saturday an attack near Jan Younis killed four people from the same family, according to Nasser Hospital.
Negotiations that seem to be moving forward: What do they require?
After months of controversial negotiationsthe American, Egyptian and Qatari mediators seemed to get closer to ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas after two days of talks in Doha.
American and Israeli officials expressed a cautious optimismbut Hamas has signaled its resistance to what it sees as new demands from Israel.
The evolving proposal appears to provide for a process in three phases in which Hamas would release the hostages taken during their October 7 attack on Israel, which sparked the deadliest war ever fought between Israelis and Palestinians.
In exchange, Israel would withdraw its forces from Gaza y would free the prisoners Palestinians.
An Israeli delegation will travel to Cairo on Sunday to continue talks and it is expected that Blinken to meet Netanyahu on Monday.
Mediators hope to end a war that has killed more than 40,000 Palestiniansaccording to local health authorities, has displaced the vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents and caused a humanitarian catastrophe.
Experts have continued to warn of famine and the outbreak of diseases such as polio while the war rages and continues to devastate the Palestinians.
