Family members mourn about bodies of family members killed in an Israeli strike on a school protection that is displaced Palestinians near the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Thursday.
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Gaza City and Washington-de Israeli military intensified strikes in Gaza on Friday, even when President Trump indicated that talking about a potential cease-fire of 60 days between Israel and Hamas was close by.
“We will see what happens – we will know the next 24 hours,” he told reporters early on Friday morning and said it was up to Hamas to agree with the framework of the deal because Israel already had it. Israeli officials have not publicly said whether they have agreed or not.
Israeli officials have not publicly said whether they have agreed, but have said that there are positive signs that they are ready to negotiate.
In a statement that was released on Friday, Hamas said that the mediators gave a reaction that “can be characterized as positive on the proposal”, and emphasizes that it is ready to start negotiations in an attempt to implement a deal.
A high Hamas officer who was not authorized to speak publicly, NPR said that the group wants guarantees to permanently terminate the war – something that Israel has refused to do in earlier negotiations – in addition to a partial Israeli military withdrawal from the enclave of assistance in the Gazza -Distributor Nations.
Israel has informed the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a contractor funded by the US, to spread food in Gaza after a blockage of almost three months of help. The distribution sites are chaotic and often deadly for Palestinians who try to get food.
Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to meet on Monday in Washington, where the two will probably discuss the possible stuck -the fire. It will be the third trip from Netanyahu to the White House since Trump returned to the office in January.
The last ceases -the fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza was in January and lasted almost two months, until Israel broke it with a series of surprising air strikes.
Earlier in the week, Trump told Hamas to accept the deal before the circumstances in Gaza got worse.
“I hope, for the benefit of the middle, that Hamas takes this deal, because it doesn’t get better – it will only get worse,” he wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.
The exact details of the deal have not been made public, but would concentrate on the return of Israeli hostages who have been held on the Hamas on the Hamas since the attack on the southern of Israel in the Hamas-conducted attack on the Hamas. There are still 50 hostages held in Gaza, of which, according to Israel, more than half are considered dead.
Family members mourn about bodies of family members killed in an Israeli strike on a school protection that is displaced Palestinians near the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Thursday.
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Intensify Israeli strikes in Gaza
In the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Palestinians mourned the bodies of loved ones, including various children, who were killed in an Israeli strike at a nearby school protection that displaced on Thursday. NPR witnessed at least nine bodies in the mortuary, while dozens of injured people were treated in the hospital.
Othman Abdu, whose niece lost her three children in the attack, said he wanted to get a message to both parties trying to negotiate a ceasefiring -firing.
“Enough malicious politics,” he said. “Have mercy with us. Innocent people are killed.”
Hospitals in Gaza have been flooded with patients in recent days, because Israeli strikes have been intensified, even if conversations have had a possible cease -the Fire Deal have had a number of Palestinians carefully optimistic.
According to Gaza Health officials, at least 138 Palestinians were killed and more than 400 injured on Thursday and Friday. More than 60 of the killed and hundreds of wounded were waiting for help.
NPR’s Anas Baba reported from Gaza City. NPRs Hadeel Al-Shalchi and Alon Avital contributed to this report from Tel Aviv. Abu Bakr Bashir has contributed from London and Ahmed Abuhamda has contributed from Cairo.
NPR’s Anas Baba reported from Gaza City. NPRs Hadeel Al-Shalchi and Alon Avital contributed to this report from Tel Aviv. Abu Bakr Bashir has contributed from London and Ahmed Abuhamda has contributed from Cairo.
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