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Israel launched a massive ground operation on Gaza Sunday in addition to A fierce air campaign that says territorial health authorities killed more than 100 people a night and shut down the enclave’s final functional hospital North.
Israeli military ground operations Northern and Southern Gaza come when international mediators promote progress in Cerez-fire talk.
Hamas-run Al-Nunu has confirmed that Hamas and Israel have launched indirect talks in Qatar’s capital Doha on Saturday, and Hamas’ official Tamas Al-Nunu has confirmed that “negotiations without prerequisites” have begun.
There is optimism in the lecture, but the breakthrough appears uncertain. Israel on Sunday showed openness to end the war in Gaza, if Hamas surrenders, a proposition that is unlikely to be accepted by extremist groups.
“If Hamas wants to talk about ending the war through Hamas’ surrender, we will be ready,” an Israeli source said.
A senior Hamas leader told CNN Sunday that the group agreed to release seven or nine Israeli hostages in exchange for a 60-day ceasefire and the release of 300 Palestinian prisoners.
The Israeli army claimed that their new military campaign, called “Gideon’s Tanks,” was announced late Friday, a reference to Biblical warriors. However, analysts and officials say it is likely that Hamas agreed to resume consultations after President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East.
“Following the debate between Qatar and the US during President Trump’s visit to Doha, there will be a new push by mediators from the US, Qatar and Egypt to see if a new ceasefire agreement can be reached.”
Over the past week, Netanyahu has instructed Israeli negotiation teams to head to Qatar for consultation, but revealed that he is only committed to negotiating the proposal proposed by US Middle Eastern envoy Steve Witkov. The proposal did not guarantee an end to the war.
Trump was in Doha on Wednesday as part of a trip to the Middle East that skipped Israel. Trump said this month that he wanted to end Gaza’s “brutal war.”
He also bypassed Israel twice this month to reach bilateral deals with regional extremist groups. Hamas released an Israeli-American hostage last week, and the Houtis agreed to stop firing on American ships in the Red Sea, pledging to continue the fight against Israel.
However, Trump denied that Israel was on the sidelines. “This is good for Israel,” he said. But on Thursday he said he wanted the US to “take” Gaza and turn it into a “free zone.”
“I have the concept of Gaza. I think it’s very good. Let’s make it a free zone, let the US participate, just a free zone,” Trump said from Qatar.
While on the Gulf, Trump acknowledged that people were hungry for Gaza and said the US would “take care of” the situation in Gaza.
Meanwhile, the UN and prominent aid organizations have issued warnings about a new Israeli attack in Gaza, saying it is civilians who will bear the brunt of the attack.
More than 300 people have been killed and more than 1,000 have been injured after Israel stepped up a severe strike since Thursday, according to CNN counts in Palestinian Ministry of Health data this week.
The whole family was killed while sleeping together, according to the Ministry of Health.
In the Almawasi region of southern Gaza, the infant, his two young siblings and parents who lived in the evacuation camp were killed on Saturday, Dr. Munier Al Barsh, director of the Ministry of Health, told CNN.
As artillery fire continues and death toll rise, Gaza’s healthcare system is pushing even further to the brink.
Over the past week, Israeli forces have carried out strikes near several hospitals in the enclave, including Indonesian Hospital in Beitrahiya, the last functional medical facility in northern Gaza, and have removed it from service.
Hospital director Dr. Munir al-Sultan said Friday there was a “very violent explosion” around the hospital, cutting off the ventilators that some patients needed to stay alive. CNN reached out to Israel for comments on the strike. The military frequently accused Hamas of evacuating at such facilities.
On Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said “all public hospitals in the northern part of the Gaza Strip are currently not working.”
The United Nations is now warning that more than 2.1 million people, the entire population of Enclave, are facing the risk of hunger, and is now exacerbated by Israel’s 11-week block of aid after 19 months of conflict and mass displacement.
On Friday, UN Human Rights Director Volkar Tark said in a statement that the updated bombing campaign amounts to ethnic cleansing.
“The latest barrage of this bomb and the denial of humanitarian assistance seem to violate international law and seek permanent demographic changes in Gaza, which are equivalent to ethnic cleansing,” the Turks said.
The number of people killed in the Israeli attacks in Gaza after the attack on October 7, 2023 exceeded 53,000.
Despite the resumption of talks in Qatar, Omar Kandil, whose brother, step-sister and four-month-old Nie were killed in a one-night air strike in central Gaza, said he feels the world has turned a blind eye to their suffering.
“They were all asleep… targeted in every bedroom,” he said.
“I don’t know what we can say anymore. We spoke a lot. No one is looking at us. No one is Arabs, no one is Muslims.”
Contributors to Kooler and Abia Salman. Khader al-Za’ananuno
