Quadruplets among Gaza dead as Blinken looks for a deal

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Quadruplets among Gaza ***** as Blinken looks for a deal

******** strikes across Gaza have ******* 28 people, including young quadruplets, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to the region to try to seal a ceasefire deal after months of negotiations.

The US and fellow mediators Egypt and Qatar said they were closing in on a deal after two days of talks in Doha, with ********* and ******** officials expressing cautious optimism.

But ****** has signalled resistance to what it called new demands by *******.

The evolving proposal calls for a three-phase process in which ****** would release all hostages abducted during its October 7 *******, which triggered the deadliest war fought between Israelis and Palestinians.

In exchange, ******* would withdraw its forces from Gaza and release ************ prisoners.

The war has ******* more than 40,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, displaced the vast majority of the territory’s 2.3 million residents and led experts to warn of famine and the outbreak of ********* like polio.

“It is as if we live a primitive life,” said Sanaa Akela, a displaced ************ now in the central town of Deir al-Balah, where sewage flooded some streets.

******-led militants ******* some 1200 people, mostly civilians, in the October 7 ******* and abducted around 250.

Of those, some 110 are still believed to be in Gaza, though ******** authorities say around a third are *****.

More than 100 hostages were released in November during a week-long ceasefire.

The latest ******** bombardment included a strike on a home in Deir al-Balah that ******* a woman and her six children, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

An Associated Press reporter there counted the bodies.

Mohammed Awad Khatab, the children’s grandfather, said his daughter, a teacher, was with her husband and their children when their house was struck.

He said the children were as young as 18 months and included quadruplets.

“The six children have become body parts. They were placed in a single bag,” he told reporters.

“What did they do? Did they ***** any of the Jews? … Will this provide security to *******?”

Another strike east of Deir al-Balah ******* at least four people, according to an AP journalist at the hospital.

A strike in the northern town of Jabaliya hit two apartments, ******** two men, a woman and her daughter, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Another two strikes in central Gaza ******* nine people, according to Al-Awda Hospital.

Late Saturday, a strike near the southern city of Khan Younis ******* four people from the same family, including two women, according to Nasser Hospital.

******* says it only targets militants and blames civilian deaths on ****** because the group conceals fighters, weapons, tunnels and rockets in residential areas.

But the ******** bombardment has wiped out entire extended families and orphaned thousands of children.

Mediation efforts gained new urgency after the targeted ******** of two top militants last month, both attributed to *******, brought vows of revenge from Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah, raising fears of an all-out war across the Middle East.

An ********* official said Friday that mediators were beginning preparations for implementing the latest ceasefire proposal, and ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office expressed “cautious optimism” that a deal could be reached.

An ******** delegation was travelling to Cairo on Sunday for further talks, and Blinken will meet with Netanyahu on Monday morning.

Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting there are areas where ******* can be flexible and unspecified areas where it won’t be.

“We are conducting negotiations and not a scenario in which we just give and give,” he said.

****** has cast doubt on whether an agreement is near, saying the latest proposal diverged significantly from a previous iteration it had accepted in principle.

****** has rejected *******’s demands for a lasting military presence along the Gaza-Egypt border and a line bisecting Gaza where ******** forces would search Palestinians returning to their homes.

******* says both are needed to prevent militants from rearming and returning to the north.

******* showed flexibility on retreating from the border corridor, and a meeting between Egyptian and ******** military officials was scheduled for the week ahead to agree on a withdrawal mechanism, according to two Egyptian officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss the private negotiations.

In Lebanon, three UN peacekeepers were lightly wounded when an ********** struck their vehicle near the southern village of Yarin.

The peacekeeping mission, known as UNIFIL, said the incident was under investigation and did not give details.

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