Israel sends delegation to negotiate hostage release deal with Hamas

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******* sends delegation to negotiate ******** release deal with ******

Dust and ****** smoke rises moments after an ******** air strike targeted a residential building in the city of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip on June 3, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between ******* and the ************ ****** militant group. 

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******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday he has decided to send a delegation to resume stalled negotiations on a ******** release deal with ******, Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.

In a phone call between the two leaders, Netanyahu repeated his position that ******* would only end its nearly nine-month 

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 when all its objectives had been achieved, the statement said.

*******’s Channel 12 said the head of *******’s Mossad intelligence agency would lead the ******** delegation for the talks, though this was not immediately confirmed.

Netanyahu is scheduled later on Thursday to have consultations with his negotiating team, and then discuss the ******** release talks with his security cabinet.

It was not clear where the ******** delegation would go to resume the talks. Prior efforts to end the Gaza conflict were mediated by Egypt and Qatar, with talks held in both locations.

******* received ******’ response on Wednesday 

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 made public at the end of May by Biden that would include the release of about 120 hostages held in Gaza and a ceasefire in the ************ enclave.

A ************ official close to the mediation effort told Reuters that ******, the militant group that controls Gaza, has shown flexibility over some clauses that would allow a framework agreement to be reached should ******* approve.

Two ****** officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. ****** has said any deal must end the war and bring a full ******** withdrawal from Gaza. ******* maintains it will accept only temporary pauses in the fighting until ****** is eradicated.

The plan entails the gradual release of ******** hostages still being held in Gaza and the pullback of ******** forces over the first two phases, and the freeing of ************ prisoners. The third phase involves the reconstruction of the war-shattered territory and return of the ******** of deceased hostages.

‘Enough is enough’

In Gaza, Palestinians reacted cautiously ahead of *******’s response.

“We hope that this is the end of the war, we are exhausted and we can’t stand more setbacks and disappointments,” said Youssef, a father-of-two, now displaced in Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave.

“Every more hour into this war, more people ****, and more houses get destroyed, so enough is enough. I say this to my leaders, to ******* and the world,” he told Reuters via a chat app.

On Thursday, Gaza’s health ministry said the ************ ****** toll in the nearly nine months of war had passed 38,000, with 87,445 wounded. The health ministry does not distinguish between civilians and fighters in its figures.

The war in Gaza began when ******-led gunmen burst into southern ******* on Oct. 7, ******* 1,200 people and took around 250 hostages back into Gaza, according to ******** tallies.

An ******** strike hit a school in Gaza City and the Civil Emergency Service said five Palestinians were ******* and others wounded, while other ******** strikes on Gaza City’s old town on Thursday ******* a woman and wounded several others, medics said.

The ******** military said it had been operating to dismantle ******’ military and administrative capabilities. It said it was acting in accordance with international law and taking feasible precautions to minimize civilian casualties.

******** tanks also shelled several areas on the eastern side of Khan Younis after the army issued evacuation orders on Tuesday, but there has been no movement by the tanks into those areas, residents said.

Seeking shelter

On Thursday, many Palestinians were still seeking shelter following the evacuation orders, which also included the border city of Rafah and which the ******* Nations said was the largest such edict since 1.1 million people were told to leave the north of the enclave in October.

Khan Younis residents said many families slept on the road because they could not find tents.

******** planes and tanks bombed several areas in the northern Gaza areas of Shejaia, Sabra, Daraj and Tuffah, ******** several Palestinians, including children, and wounding others, health officials said.

The ******** military said its troops and aircraft ******* dozens of militants in those areas and in Rafah, in southern Gaza, which ******* has described as ******’ last stronghold.

*******’s leaders have said they are winding down the phase of intense fighting against ****** and would soon move to more targeted operations.

However, after months of conflict ****** still claims to have munitions to ****** back. On Thursday, ******’ armed wing said it had targeted the ******** operations command headquarters east of Gaza City with missiles.

The group also claimed that its militants were able to ***** a *******-built anti-aircraft missile towards an Apache helicopter in the sky over the Shejaia neighborhood, east of Gaza City, without saying if it had been hit.

******* did not comment on the claims.

The war has created a humanitarian crisis and destroyed the majority of the enclave’s medical facilities.

On Thursday, the Gaza health ministry said generators at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, the only main hospital still functioning, would run out of fuel within hours and appealed to international humanitarian organizations for help to secure fresh supplies.

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