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Hamas, the organization considered terrorist by the EU and the United States that has
de facto
governed Gaza since 2007, has received a proposal for a 40-day ceasefire for the Strip agreed in Paris by Israel, the United States, Qatar and Egypt.
The truce would involve the handover of some 40 hostages kidnapped by the militia - women, children under 19, people over 50 and sick - in exchange for Israel's release of some 400 Palestinian prisoners, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. negotiations that have been taking place since yesterday in Qatar, where the Islamist militia has its political office.
The pause in fighting - it would be the second since the war began on October 7 - would also include the repair of hospitals and bakeries, the entry of 500 trucks a day with humanitarian aid and the delivery of thousands of tents and caravans for the displaced population.
Furthermore, US President Joe Biden has stated in New York that he hopes that a ceasefire in Gaza will materialize in the coming days.
“I hope by the weekend…” the president said when asked by journalists.
“My hope is that by next Monday we will have a ceasefire,” he added.
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The resignation of the Palestinian Government paves the way for the return of the ANP to Gaza
Antonio Pita
Since the war in Gaza began last October, the prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) who resigned this Monday, Mohamed Shtayeh, responds with a metaphor when asked about the possibility of the PNA regaining control of Strip once Israel puts an end to Hamas, which has ruled it alone since 2007: “We will not return to Gaza aboard an F-16 or an Israeli military tank.”
There is no such risk, because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear that he does not want the ANP managing the rubble of Gaza.
But Shtaye's resignation is the most significant step in the four and a half months of war for him to do so at the hands of the United States.
The decision – accepted by the president, Mahmud Abbas, who has asked him to continue serving – opens the door to the “day after” that Washington desires and is pressing for: that a reformed ANP with new faces regains international legitimacy. necessary to take care of the day to day.
“Revitalized,” as the president of the United States, Joe Biden, has said.
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ACT.27 FEB 2024 - 11:04
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Israel continues its offensive in northern, central and southern Gaza
The Israeli army reported this Tuesday attacks in the north, center and south of Gaza, which have caused fatal casualties and destroyed infrastructure and weapons, while the Islamist group Hamas studies a truce proposal negotiated last weekend in Paris by Israel, the USA, Qatar and Egypt.
In air force raids and bombings in the northern neighborhood of Zaytun, “forces located a weapons manufacturing facility, rocket launchers and systems used by Hamas in combat,” in addition to killing an unknown number of suspected militiamen and destroy a tunnel, as detailed today in a military statement.
In central Gaza, Israeli troops claim to have eliminated fighters and destroyed, with the help of the engineering corps, “dozens of strategic sites belonging to Hamas,” while in western Khan Yunis (south) there was new fighting, according to the Army, for the area “adjacent to Israeli communities” close to Gaza.
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ACT.27 FEB 2024 - 09:55