A demonstrator participates in a performance during a protest that demands the end of the war and immediate release of hostages of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Saturday 31 May 2025.
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Tel Aviv, Israel -Hamas is looking for changes to the last American ceases -the proposal for Gaza, a high official with the group told the Associated Press on Saturday, but the American envoy Steve Witkoff called the Hamas reaction “totally unacceptable”.
The latest friction in negotiations comes when the fighting is approaching 20 months of war, and as despair grows under hungry Palestinians and relatives of hostages in Gaza.
The Hamas officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the conversations, said that proposed changes were aimed at “the American guarantees, the timing of hostages, the delivery of help and the withdrawal of Israeli troops.” There were no details.
A separate Hamas statement said that the proposal strives for a permanent stop -the fire, an extensive Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and an insurance flow of help. It said that 10 living hostages and the bodies of 18 others would be released “in exchange for an agreed number of Palestinian prisoners.” Fifty -eight hostages continue to exist and Israel believes that 35 are dead.
Instead, Witkoff on social media described a 60-day cease-fire deal that would free half of the living hostages in Gaza and half would return from those who died. At Hamas he insisted on accepting the proposal framework as the basis for conversations that he said could start next week.
Israeli officials have approved the American proposal for a temporary ceasefiring. US President Donald Trump has said that negotiators were approaching a deal.
People participate in a protest that the end of the war and immediate release of hostages of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Tel Aviv, in Tel Aviv, in Tel Aviv, in Tel Aviv, in Tel Aviv, in Tel Aviv, in Tel Aviv.
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A senior civil servant of Hamas, Bassem Naim, accused Israel of disagreing with agreed provisions and claimed a “complete bias against the other side” of which he said he violates the honesty of mediation.
“We want the bloodshed to stop,” said Motasim, a man from the Albureij Refugee Camp in Central Gaza, about the conversations. “I swear for God, we are tired.”
Despair rises in Gaza
Palestinians in Gaza blocked and discharged 77 food trucks, said the UN World Food Program, while hunger is approaching the months -long blockade of the territory of Israel. The WFP said that the help, usually flower, was taken before the trucks could reach their destination.
A witness in the southern city of Khan Younis, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said that the AP was stopped that the UN -Konvooi was stopped at an improvised road barrier and was loaded in their thousands by desperate citizens.
The almost three months of blockade on Gaza has pushed the population of more than 2 million on the edge of famine. Although Israel has given some help in recent days, aid organizations say that is far from enough.
The military body of Israel responsible for help with help in Gaza, Cogat, said that 579 trucks had arrived last week. The UN said that 600 a day came in under the previous cease -the Fires that Israel ended with a new bombing.
The WFP said that the fear of hunger in Gaza is high. “We have to flood with food in the coming days to calm fears,” said it in a statement. It added that it has more than 140,000 tons of food – enough to feed Gazans for two months – ready to be brought in.
Earlier this month, the United Nations said that the Israeli authorities forced them to use uncovered routes within areas controlled by the army of Israel in the eastern areas of Rafah and Khan Younis, where armed gangs are active and trucks were stopped.
Attacks, gangs and lack of protection hinder the UN distribution
An internal document that is shared with auxiliary groups about security incidents, seen by the AP, said that four incidents of facilities were being looted at the end of May, excluding Saturday.
The UN says it was unable to get enough help because of fighting.
A new American and Israeli -supported foundation started this week in Gaza in Gaza and distributed food at various locations in a chaotic rollout.
Israel says that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation will ultimately replace the assistance by the UN and others. It says that the new mechanism is necessary and Hamas accuses the heels of large quantities of help. The UN denies that important distraction takes place.
A young Palestinian is waiting to collect donated food in a food distribution kitchen in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Friday 30 May 2025.
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The GHF works with armed contractors, who says it is necessary to distribute food safely. Auxiliary groups have accused the basis of militarizing help. The GHF said that on Saturday 30 truck loads spread food and called it their greatest distribution so far.
Israeli strikes kill at least 60
Israël continued his military campaign in Gaza and said that it had taken dozens of goals in the past day. The Ministry of Health of Gaza said that at least 60 people were killed by Israeli strikes for the past 24 hours.
The ministry said that three people were killed early in Rafah by Israeli gunfire. Three others were killed – parents and a child – when their car was beaten in Gaza City. An Israeli strike hit another car in Gaza City and killed four. And an Israeli strike touched a tent protection that displaced people in Khan Younis, killing six, said Weam -Tariffs, a spokesperson for the Nasser Hospital.
Israel’s army said that various projectiles from Gaza fell in open areas.
The war started when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, in which around 1200 people, most civilians, killed and 250 hostages.
Israeli strikes have killed more than 54,000 inhabitants of Gaza, mainly women and children, according to the Gaza Minister of Health, which makes no distinction between citizens and fighters in his count.
A group of hostages’ family members again argued for an extensive cessation -the fires that would free everyone at the same time and said that the remaining hostages’ the constant military pressure will not survive ‘.
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