Six months after the start of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement, the Hamas Ministry of Health announced on Sunday a new toll of 32,226 people killed in the Gaza Strip.
Mossad and CIA chiefs leave Doha after new phase of talks
The heads of US and Israeli intelligence services have left Doha after a new round of talks on a truce in the Gaza Strip.
The head of the CIA, Bill Burns, and that of the Mossad, David Barnea, left the Qatari capital at the end of the day on Saturday
“to inform their respective teams in their countries of this round”
of negotiations, said a source close to the negotiations , on condition of anonymity.
These talks
"focused on details and a ratio for the exchange of hostages and prisoners"
, she added, specifying that the
"technical teams remained in Doha"
.
The mediating countries - the United States, Qatar and Egypt - have been engaged for weeks in talks on a truce, after five and a half months of devastating war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, and an agreement to release the hostages held in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
A Hamas official on Saturday reported
“deep differences”
with Israel in discussions on a truce in Gaza, particularly on the ceasefire, the full return of displaced people and the management of humanitarian aid.
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“There are deep differences of positions in the negotiations between Hamas and the occupier, because the enemy took the flexibility of our movement for weakness. The occupier is trying to use the negotiations as a means to continue its crimes and its aggression
,” this official familiar with the ongoing negotiations in Doha told AFP on condition of anonymity.
“The response of the occupier is absolutely unacceptable, and no Palestinian can accept this offer, particularly the fact that it refuses the return of the displaced and wishes to maintain the occupation within the Gaza Strip
,” he said. he said again.
Guterres calls on Israel to
“remove the last obstacles to aid”
for Gaza, threatened with famine
UN boss Antonio Guterres called on Sunday in Cairo
“Israel to remove the last obstacles to aid”
for the Gaza Strip, threatened with famine, once again urging Israel and Palestinian Hamas to
“cease it -immediate fire”
.
After almost six months of war, Antonio Guterres had already denounced on Saturday, during a trip to the Egyptian side of the crossing point with the besieged Palestinian territory, the
“pain”
of the Palestinians, prisoners of
“an endless nightmare”
.
Four people injured in Lebanon by Israeli strikes
Four people were injured by Israeli nighttime strikes in the Baalbeck region, a Hezbollah stronghold in eastern Lebanon.
Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in October, Hezbollah has exchanged daily fire with Israel on the Israeli-Lebanese border, in support of its Palestinian ally in the Gaza Strip.
“Last night, Israeli Defense Force fighter jets struck a production site containing weapons in the Baalbeck area
,” the Israeli army announced in a statement.
According to the AFP correspondent,
“Israeli aircraft fired five missiles at a two-story inhabited building in al-Osseira, on the outskirts of Baalbeck”
.
The strikes targeted a Hezbollah center that had been deserted for a while, he added, reporting four injured residents of nearby buildings.
A previous report reported three injuries.
“In response to the bombing”
in Baalbeck, Hezbollah said it launched almost an hour later
“more than 60 Katyusha-type rockets”
on two Israeli military positions in the Syrian Golan occupied by Israel.