Gaza ceasefire talks set to resume in Doha as Israeli airstrikes continue

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Renewed momentum for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire

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Indirect negotiations betwixt Israel and Hamas for a imaginable ceasefire successful Gaza are acceptable to resume Sunday successful Doha amid the backdrop of continued deadly Israeli attacks successful the Strip.

Israeli airstrikes killed astatine slightest 38 Palestinians successful Gaza, infirmary officials told the Associated Press connected Sunday, arsenic Israel's subject said it has struck implicit 100 targets successful the embattled enclave successful the past day.

Twenty radical were killed and 25 wounded aft strikes deed 2 houses successful Gaza City, according to Mohammed Abu Selmia, the manager of Shifa Hospital.

In confederate Gaza, 18 Palestinians were killed by strikes successful Muwasi, an country connected Gaza's Mediterranean seashore wherever galore displaced radical unrecorded successful tents, officials astatine Nasser Hospital successful the adjacent metropolis of Khan Younis told The Associated Press. Two families were among the dead, according to the hospital.

The Israeli subject had nary contiguous remark connected the idiosyncratic strikes, but said it struck 130 targets crossed the Gaza Strip successful the past 24 hours.

Fire erupts aft  Israeli strikes successful  Gaza A presumption of the country wherever a ample occurrence broke retired pursuing Israeli service strikes connected a antecedently warned flat gathering connected Omar Mukhtar Street successful Gaza City, Gaza. Khames Alrefi/Anadolu via Getty Images

It said the strikes targeted Hamas bid and power structures, retention facilities, weapons and launchers, and that they killed a fig of militants successful bluish Gaza.

Ceasefire woody nether negotiation

The strikes occurred arsenic efforts to scope a ceasefire woody appeared to summation momentum implicit the weekend.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bureau said his government sent a negotiating squad to talks successful Qatar connected Sunday to behaviour indirect talks, but helium was quoted arsenic saying that Hamas was seeking "unacceptable" changes to a U.S.-led proposal.

The planned talks successful Qatar travel up of Netanyahu's planned sojourn connected Monday to Washington to conscionable President Trump to sermon the deal. It is unclear if a woody volition beryllium reached up of Netanyahu's White House meeting.

Mr. Trump has floated a program for an archetypal 60-day ceasefire that would see a partial merchandise of hostages held by Hamas successful speech for an summation successful humanitarian supplies allowed into Gaza. The projected truce calls for talks connected ending the 21-month war altogether.

PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT Smoke billows eastbound of Gaza City, successful the cardinal Gaza Strip, during Israeli bombardment connected July 6, 202. BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images

Hamas has sought guarantees that the archetypal truce would pb to a full extremity to the warfare and withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. Previous negotiations person stalled implicit Hamas' demands for guarantees that further negotiations would pb to the war's end, portion Netanyahu has insisted connected Israel being capable to resume warring to fulfill his extremity of destroying the militant group.

A Palestinian authoritative acquainted with the talks and adjacent to Hamas told AFP the talks successful Doha would absorption connected conditions for a imaginable ceasefire, including hostage and captive releases. The authoritative said Hamas would besides question the reopening of Gaza's Rafah crossing to evacuate the wounded.

The warfare successful Gaza began erstwhile Hamas terrorists attacked Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, sidesplitting immoderate 1,200 radical and taking 251 others hostage. Many of those hostages person since either been released oregon their bodies person been recovered successful ceasefire agreements oregon different deals. 

Israel responded with an violative that has killed much than 57,000 Palestinians, much than fractional of them women and children, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry successful Gaza. The ministry does not differentiate betwixt civilians and combatants.

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