Ceasefire talks continue as conditions worsen in Gaza

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Ceasefire talks continue as conditions worsen in Gaza

****** says its negotiators have arrived in Cairo to hear about the latest round of Gaza ceasefire and ******** talks from mediators, after the UN reported badly worsening humanitarian conditions with malnutrition soaring and polio discovered.

******** military strikes across Gaza have ******* 50 people on Saturday, ************ health authorities said. Victims of fighting over the past 48 hours remain lying on roads where fighting continues or trapped under rubble, the authorities said.

Months of on-off talks have so far ******* to produce a breakthrough to end *******’s devastating military campaign in Gaza or free the remaining hostages seized by ****** in the militant group’s October 7 ******* that triggered the war.

******** negotiators were in Cairo on Thursday to meet mediators from the ******* States, which has presented a “bridging proposal” aimed at resolving continued disputes, focused on *******’s presence in strategic areas of Gaza.

However there was no sign of any breakthrough on key sticking points, including *******’s insistence that it must retain control of the so-called Philadelphi Corridor, on the border between Gaza and Egypt.

****** has accused ******* of going back on things it had previously agreed to in the talks, which ******* denies. The group says the ******* States is not mediating in good ******.

In *******, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has locked horns with ******** ceasefire negotiators over whether ******** troops must remain all along the border between Gaza and Egypt, a person with knowledge of the talks said.

Meanwhile, US Air Force General C.Q. Brown, chairman of the ****** Chiefs of Staff, began an unannounced visit to the Middle East on Saturday to discuss ways to avoid any new escalation in tensions that could spiral into a broader conflict, as the region braces for a threatened Iranian ******* against *******.

Continuing the war will worsen the plight of Gaza’s 2.3 million people, nearly all of them homeless in tents or shelters among the ruins, with malnutrition rampant and ******** spreading, and risk the lives of remaining ******** hostages.

The October 7 ******* ******* 1200 people according to ******** tallies. *******’s Gaza campaign has ******* more than 40,000 people, ************ health authorities say.

The amount of food aid entering Gaza in July was one of the lowest since October, when ******** imposed a full siege, UN humanitarian agency OCHA said in a Friday update.

In July the number of children with acute malnutrition in northern Gaza was four times higher than in May, while in the more accessible south, where fighting is less severe, the number more than doubled, OCHA said.

The World Health Organisation said on Friday a 10-month-old baby had been paralysed with polio, the first such case in the territory in 25 years, raising fears of a wider outbreak given the lack of proper sanitation for people living in ruins.

More warfare also risks major new escalations, with Iran still weighing retaliation for the ************** of ****** leader Ismail Haniyeh on its territory in July.

Fighting between ******* and Iranian-backed Hezbollah since October 7 has ramped up recently, including with ******** strikes across southern Lebanon and into the Bekaa, and with more Hezbollah rocket ***** into northern *******.

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