Israel made an air strike on Sunday in the northern gauze, raising already fragile truce How fresh talks will be held on Monday.
The Israeli army announced that the air strike was targeting the terrorists of Hamas who were “identified as they operated near the IDF hull, trying to plant an explosive device in the country in northern Gazi.”
It was not immediately clear whether any injury were reported from the strike.
The air strike comes just before the talks about the future of the tribute should start this week.
The certificate that began in mid -January brought a break in Israel’s campaign of bombing and ground insults in Gaza, aimed at destroying Hamas after a terrorist attack on October 7, 2023.
The first phase of the ceasefire appeared 25 Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and the bodies of eight others in exchange for liberation of almost 2,000 Palestinians closed in Israel.
Since the end of the first phase, Hamas has repeatedly called to the immediate start of the negotiations, Israel requested an extension of the first phase by mid -April, demanding the release of half of the remaining hostages.
Earlier this month, Israel banned all food, fuel, medicines and other supplies Since entering Gaza for about 2 million people, demanding that Hamas accept the revised contract.
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On Sunday, Israel said it reduced the supply of electricity from Gaza. The complete effects of this are not immediately clear, but desalinization facilities are given the power to produce drinking water.
Gaza is largely devastated by war, and generators and solar panels are used for some of the power supply.
Said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel will send a delegation to Qatar on Monday to improve negotiations on the interruption of fire. The Prime Minister’s office did not give details except to say that “she accepted the invitation of intermediaries who support the US.”
Representatives of Hamas met during the weekend of the mediators in Cairo, emphasizing the urgent need to continue the delivery of humanitarian aid to besieged territory “without restriction or conditions,” the Hamas statement said.
“Hamas emphasizes the urgency of forcing the occupation to start negotiations immediately in the second phase according to the agreed parameters,” Hamas Mahmoud Mardawi’s high leader Hamas, adding that he would run the way for the constant end of the fight.
Adam Boehler, Trump’s candidate to be a special hostage envoy, held Unprecedented direct conversations with Hamas This week. Said to CNN’s “Union” state that he was convinced that he could be achieved “within a few weeks” to release all civilians that still hold Hamas.
Boehler said he understood the Israeli “concern” that they had talked to the group now, but said he wanted to jump on “fragile” negotiations.
“In the end, I think it was a very useful meeting,” he said, adding, “I think something could be gathered within a few weeks … I think there is an agreement in which I can draw all prisoners, not just Americans.”
Said a high Hamas official Reuters On Sunday, meetings with Boehler also focused on publishing an American-Israeli hostage holding a militant group.
“We have informed the US delegation not to oppose the release of prisoners within these conversations,” Nono told Reuters.
Special envoy of Mr. Trump Steve Witkoff told reporters at the White House last week that the publication of Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old New Jersey man who is believed to have been the last life of the US Hamas in Gaza “mainly a” main priority for us. “
Of the 251 hostages taken by Palestinian militants during the attack on October 7, 2023, 58 remained in Gaza, including five Americans. Four American prisoners were confirmed dead.
Hamas’s attack resulted in a death of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to official data.
The Israeli retaliated campaign killed at least 48,458 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to the Ministry of Health of the HAMAS TERRITORY.
