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Σorμερα στηνΝ&tau χινιγιτπσ&pi ;υρσστηΓζα /></p> <p>Indirect negotiations aimed at concluding a cease-fire agreement in the Gaza Strip are scheduled to resume today in Qatar, three AFP sources briefed on the matter said Wednesday, as the Palestinian enclave, besieged and in ruins after ten and months of war, it continues to be hammered by the Israeli armed forces.</p> <p> The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which are fighting in the narrow coastal strip of land, after the Palestinian Islamist movement launched an unprecedented offensive in southern sectors of the Israeli territory on October 7, is a demand put forward by almost the entire international community.</p> <p>US President Joe Biden estimated yesterday Tuesday that the declaration of an armistice could prevent an attack by Iran against Israel. Tehran has warned that there will be retaliation for the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital on July 31, which it blamed on Israel. the effort to achieve this goal even though the negotiations have proven to be "difficult".</p> <p>The White House announced that the head of state and Kamala Harris, his vice president and Democratic presidential candidate in the November elections, were briefed yesterday by their advisers on national security issues in the Situation Room, the nerve center of the American government apparatus. in cases of international crises.</p> <p>There is no “time to lose”, said the special envoy of the US president, Amos Hoxtyn, yesterday in Beirut, judging that the truce would help to stop the practically daily exchanges of fire between the Israeli armed forces and the Lebanese armed movement Hezbollah, which is an ally of Hamas and Tehran.</p> <p> Hezbollah announced in the evening the death of two of its fighters in new Israeli bombardments in southern Lebanon.</p> <p>The new talks, following the invitation of the mediating countries — Qatar, the USA and Egypt— are based on a proposal presented on May 31 by Mr. Biden. In its first phase, it provides for a six-week ceasefire, the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from densely populated areas of the Gaza Strip and the release of Hamas hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinians held in Israeli detention centers.</p> <p> They will take place in the presence of the director. of the CIA William Burns, according to a US source, as well as the heads of the Mossad and Shin Bet (Israel's espionage and counterintelligence services, respectively), according to the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.</p> <p>The latter discussed a possible deal with US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday, Axios news website reported yesterday, citing US sources.</p> <p>The involvement of Hamas remains uncertain. An official of the Palestinian Islamist movement said yesterday that the talks “with the mediators (…) have intensified”, repeating that Hamas “wants the implementation of the Biden plan and not to negotiate for the sake of negotiating”.</p> <p> < p> The Israeli armed forces meanwhile continue operations in the Gaza Strip. The enclave's civilian defense reported shelling in Gaza City, Beit Lahia (north), Deir al-Bala (central), Khan Younis and Rafah (south).</p> <p>Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, which the US and EU designate as a terrorist organization after its attack on southern sectors of the Israeli territory on October 7, in which they lost 1,198 people, most of them civilians, were killed, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli data.</p> <p> Of the 251 people kidnapped during the attack, 111 are still being held hostage in the Gaza Strip. , however 39 are presumed dead, according to the Israeli military.</p> <p>Israel's large-scale military retaliatory operations have since killed at least 39,965 people in the enclave, according to the latest figures from Hamas' health ministry.</p> <p> In Lebanon, ten months of hostilities have claimed the lives of at least 570 people, mostly Hezbollah fighters, but also at least 118 civilians, according to an AFP count.</p> <p>In Israel and the occupied Golan Heights, 22 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed, according to Israeli authorities.</p> <p> Mediators have so far been able to secure only a week-long ceasefire. in November. That agreement allowed the release of approximately one hundred hostages and in exchange 240 Palestinians.</p> <p> In Israel, Abigail Ginzburg, an Israeli flight attendant, 22 years old, said yesterday that she was "very anxious", about the risk of an attack by Iran. and in view of today's negotiations.</p> <p>Iran on Tuesday rejected a call from Western countries to abandon plans to attack Israel in retaliation for the killing of Ismail Haniya. The Islamic Republic's allies in Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen also threatened to avenge the death, like the one a few hours earlier, on the evening of July 30, of Hezbollah's military wing leader Fouad Shukr in an Israeli bombardment. in a southern suburb of Beirut.</p> <p>Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that his country remains in a state of “high alert”.</p> <p> As part of diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the region, the head of French diplomacy, Stéphane Cezournet, is expected in Beirut today. .</p> <p> US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken discussed yesterday with the Prime Minister of Qatar, Mohammed bin Abdelrahman al-Thani, while the latter also exchanged views with the head of Turkish diplomacy, Hakan Fidan.</p> <p> "We hope that tomorrow the negotiations will have a positive result, that the war will end," Ibrahim Hunter, a Palestinian from Deir al-Bala, told AFP. “War is a disaster, there are no winners,” he added.</p> <p> The Israeli armed forces announced yesterday that they had carried out more than 40 airstrikes against “terrorist infrastructure”. in the Gaza Strip.</p> <p> Civil protection announced that it pulled four bodies of members of the same family from the wreckage of a large apartment building near Khan Younis.</p> <p> In Nuseirat (center), Palestinians said how they heard "awesome explosion" in the middle of the night. Jihad al-Sharif said his family found the remains of children in the middle of the road.</p> <p> The war has plunged the Palestinian enclave into humanitarian disaster and displaced almost the entire population of 2.4 million people.</p> <p> > </p> <p> Source: RES-MPE</p> <p><noindex></p> <div class=Source: www.sigmalive.com

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