Hamas stated on Tuesday it could examine a brand new ceasefire proposal within the warfare with Israel in Gaza, hours after Israeli commandos killed three Palestinian militants in a raid on a hospital within the occupied West Financial institution.
The raid underscored the chance of the Gaza warfare spreading to different fronts, whereas Israeli forces fought new battles with Hamas fighters within the Palestinian enclave.
Clashes in northern Gaza pressured extra Palestinian residents to flee to safer areas, and southern elements of the coastal enclave have been hit by Israeli air strikes.
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh stated the group had obtained a ceasefire proposal put ahead after talks in Paris. He stated he would examine the plan and go to Cairo for discussions on it.
The precedence for the Palestinian militant group was to finish the Israeli offensive and a full pull-out of Israeli forces from Gaza, he stated.
Haniyeh gave no particulars of the ceasefire proposal however it adopted talks in Paris involving CIA Director William Burns, Qatar’s prime minister, the chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service and the pinnacle of Egyptian intelligence.
Whereas the West Financial institution – an space that Palestinians envisage as a part of a hoped-for unbiased state – had seen elevated violence even earlier than the outbreak of the Gaza warfare in October, the hospital raid might gasoline a extra intense part of unrest.
CCTV footage appeared to point out a couple of dozen troops, together with three in ladies’s garb and two dressed as Palestinian medical workers, pacing by way of a hall in Ibn Sina hospital within the metropolis of Jenin with rifles.
Hamas stated one of many lifeless was a member of the militant Islamist group. The allied faction Islamic Jihad stated the opposite two killed have been brothers who belonged to it. Ibn Sina stated one of many brothers had been receiving remedy for an harm that paralysed his legs.
The Israeli army stated a type of killed had a pistol, and that the incident confirmed militants have been utilizing civilian areas and hospitals as shelters and “human shields”. Hamas has beforehand denied such allegations.
Palestinian sources stated the three weren’t engaged in any combating. They stated one, Basel Al-Ghazzawi, was wheelchair-bound after being wounded in his again this month, and was within the hospital for remedy. His brother Mohammad was staying there to assist him, and the third man was a pal, the sources stated.
The Israeli undercover squad broke into the hospital, headed to the third flooring and killed them utilizing silenced pistols, hospital sources stated.
Palestinian Well being Minister Mai Alkaila known as the incident a warfare crime and urged the United Nations and worldwide rights teams to place an finish to such actions. Israel has beforehand denied committing warfare crimes.
The Israeli army recognized one of many slain males as Mohammed Jalamneh, 27, from Jenin, who it stated had contacts with Hamas headquarters overseas and was planning an assault impressed by the Hamas rampage in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
Israel unleashed its assault on Gaza in response to that assault during which 1,200 Israelis have been killed and 253 taken hostage. Greater than 100 hostages stay captive in Gaza.
Since then, 26,751 Palestinians have been killed and 65,636 wounded by Israeli actions in Gaza, the Gaza well being ministry stated. Some 114 Palestinians have been killed and 249 injured previously 24 hours, it stated.
Israel says its forces have killed round 9,000 Palestinian combatants in Gaza, and that 221 of its troopers have been killed within the combating.
The warfare has created a humanitarian disaster, with large areas of Gaza flattened, a whole lot of 1000’s of individuals left destitute, and provides of meals, water and medicines nearly exhausted.
The World Well being Group stated the inhabitants of Gaza was on the verge of famine.
“It is getting worse by the day,” WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier advised a briefing in Geneva.
She stated one convoy tried to succeed in the Nasser Hospital on Tuesday morning however individuals helped themselves to provides earlier than they might be distributed.
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Israel mounted a brand new push in northern Gaza after earlier reporting successes towards Palestinian militants there. The militants’ presence within the space suggests Israel’s marketing campaign to eradicate Hamas will not be going to plan.
Hamas seems to have been capable of regroup in Gaza Metropolis because the warfare drags on and worldwide concern over the plight of civilians mounts.
A lot of Tuesday’s motion in Gaza was centered on the Seashore refugee camp and close to the Al Shifa hospital, residents stated. Israeli tanks broke into one shelter web site and troopers rounded up dozens of males.
Residents and well being officers additionally stated an Israeli tank opened fireplace towards dozens of Palestinians close to Al-Kuwaiti Sq. on the southern fringe of Gaza Metropolis the place help vehicles unload their shipments, killing two individuals and wounding others.
The combating induced extra individuals to flee inside Gaza Metropolis and to the south in direction of Deir Al-Balah within the centre. Heavy bombing additionally hit western and southern suburbs of Gaza.
Within the south, Israeli forces stored up stress in Khan Younis, sustaining their encirclement of the town’s two fundamental hospitals.
Palestinian well being officers stated not less than 10 Palestinians have been killed in two separate Israeli air strikes in Khan Younis and in Deir Al-Balah.
The Israeli army stated in a abstract of in a single day operations that motion continued within the western a part of Khan Younis, the place militants have been killed and lots of arms seized. In northern and central Gaza, troopers killed “quite a few” militants, together with a rocket-propelled grenade squad.
Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch and Daniel Williams in Jerusalem, Nidal Al Mughrabi in Doha, Suleiman Al-Khalidi in Amman, Clauda Tanios in Dubai, Writing by Michael Perry and Angus MacSwan, Enhancing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Timothy Heritage
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