The United States proposal is being examined by Israel, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyhau is cautious. Meanwhile, the bombings continue. Around 50 military targets were hit by the army in the last 24 hours in raids on the Strip, but victims were also reported in refugee camps
Alessandro Guarasci – Vatican City
Perhaps there is a turning point in the crisis in the Middle East. Hamas would have accepted the truce proposal presented by the USA. This was stated by the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry. Meanwhile, the Hamas Ministry of Health has updated the death toll in the Gaza Strip to date, counting 36,479 victims since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement.
Netanyhau: details still to be defined
The agreement includes a ceasefire but also an exchange of prisoners. “The first statements from Hamas indicate that it has welcomed the proposal, now we await the Israeli response”, Shoukry said during a press conference with his Spanish counterpart. For now, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyhau has confirmed that “the proposed agreement includes a temporary ceasefire for the release of the hostages”. Then, quoted by the media, he added that the scheme presented by Biden “is partial because there are other details that have not been published”. “The war – he however specified – will come stop with the aim of returning the kidnapped ones and then we will discuss”.
Hit Khan Younis and Rafah
Meanwhile, around 50 military targets were hit by the Israeli army in raids on the Strip in the last 24 hours. The spokesperson said that the targets included “terrorist infrastructures of armed groups and weapons depots”. The death toll from tonight’s attacks on homes and refugee camps in the Gaza Strip has risen to 22, according to Al Jazeera, citing local media. At least 12 people were killed, including women and children, in shelling by Israeli forces on the towns of Khan Younis and Rafah, in southern Gaza, the news agency reports. Wafa. Two Israeli attacks on the refugee camps of Bureij and Nuseirat, in central Gaza, however, killed another ten people, according to Wafa.
