Hamas says it’s waiting for Israeli response on Gaza ceasefire proposal

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****** says it’s waiting for ******** response on Gaza ceasefire proposal

A ************ man reacts as people check the damage in a house hit by ******** bombardment in Zawayda in the central Gaza Strip on July 7, 2024. ******* carried out deadly air strikes in the Gaza Strip on July 7 as the war between ******* and the ****** movement entered its 10th month, with fighting raging across the ************ territory and fresh diplomatic efforts underway to halt the *********.

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****** is waiting for a response from ******* on its ceasefire proposal, two officials from the ************ group said on Sunday, five days after it accepted a key part of a U.S. plan aimed at ending the 

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 in Gaza.

“We have left our response with the mediators and are waiting to hear the occupation’s response,” one of the two ****** officials told Reuters, asking not to be identified.

******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was scheduled to hold consultations on Sunday on the next steps in negotiating the three-phase plan that was presented in May by U.S. President Joe Biden and is being mediated by Qatar and Egypt.

It aims to end the war and free around 120 ******** hostages being held by ******.

Another ************ official, with knowledge of the ceasefire deliberations, said ******* was in talks with the Qataris.

“They have discussed with them ******’ response and they promised to give them *******’s response within days,” the official, who asked not to be identified, told Reuters on Sunday.

Netanyahu has said that negotiations would 

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 but has not given any detailed timeline.

****** has dropped a key demand that ******* first commit to a permanent ceasefire before it would sign an agreement. Instead, it said it would allow negotiations to achieve that throughout the six-week first phase, a ****** source told Reuters on Saturday on condition of anonymity because the talks are private.

A ************ official close to the peace efforts has said the proposal could lead to a framework agreement if embraced by ******* and would end the war.

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns will travel to Qatar this week for negotiations, a source familiar with the matter said.

The conflict was triggered nine months ago on Oct. 7 when fighters led by ******, controlling Gaza, attacked southern *******, ******** 1,200 people and taking around 250 hostages, according to ******** figures.

More than 38,000 Palestinians have been ******* in *******’s military onslaught, according to Gaza health officials, and the coastal enclave has largely been reduced to rubble.

On Sunday, an ******** airstrike ******* Ehab Al-Ghussein, the ******-appointed deputy minister of labor, and three other people at a *******-run school in western Gaza City sheltering ********** and ******* families, ****** media and the Civil Emergency Service said.

The ******** military said that after it took steps to minimize the risk of civilians being harmed there, it struck militants who were hiding in the school, as well as a facility in the vicinity where weapons were being made.

Ghussein’s wife and children had been ******* in an ******** strike in May.

The U.N. agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, called the situation increasingly tragic, saying in a post on X, “families continue to face forced displacement, massive destruction and constant *****. Essential supplies are lacking, the heat is unbearable, ********* are spreading”.

Protests in *******

In *******, p

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 took to the streets across the country to pressure the government to agree to the Gaza ceasefire deal, which would bring back 120 hostages still being held in Gaza.

They blocked rush hour traffic at major intersections across the country, picketed politicians’ houses and briefly set ***** to tires on the main Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway before police cleared the way.

Meanwhile, fighting continued to rage across Gaza, and north ******* came under rocket ******* from Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Air raid sirens sent residents of 24 ******** towns running for shelter. One person was seriously wounded, police said. Hezbollah said it had fired rockets at an army base.

In Gaza, ************ health officials said at least 15 people were ******* in separate ******** military strikes

An ******** air strike on a house in the town of Zawayda, in central Gaza, ******* at least six people and wounded several others, while six others were ******* in an air strike on a house in western Gaza, the health officials said.

Gaza’s health ministry does not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants but officials say most of the ***** throughout the war have been civilians. ******* has lost 323 soldiers in Gaza and says at least a third of the ************ ***** are fighters.

In central and northern areas of Rafah, on the southern Gaza border with Egypt, ******** tanks deepened their raids.

Health officials there said they had recovered three bodies of Palestinians ******* by ******** ***** in the eastern part of the city.

The ******** military said on Sunday its forces had ******* 30 ************ gunmen in Rafah during close combat and air strikes in the past day.

In Shejaia, an eastern suburb of Gaza City, the military said its forces ******* several ************ gunmen, and located weapons and explosives. It published a drone video showing gunmen, some appearing to be wounded or *****, in a house.

Reuters could not immediately verify the video.

The armed wings of ****** and Islamic ******, an allied militant group, said fighters attacked ******** forces in several locations across the Gaza Strip with anti-tank rockets and mortar ******.

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