Officers say Egypt has launched a brand new proposal to try to get the Israel-Hamas ceasefire again on observe.
Hamas would launch 5 dwelling hostages, including an American-Israeli, in return for Israel permitting humanitarian help into the Gaza Strip and a weekslong pause within the preventing, an Egyptian official stated. Israel would additionally launch tons of of Palestinian prisoners.
A Hamas official stated the group had “responded positively” to the proposal, with out elaborating.
Each officers spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t licensed to transient media on the closed-door talks.
Israel ended the prevailing ceasefire final week by launching a shock wave of airstrikes that killed tons of of Palestinians. That got here after Hamas rejected Israeli-backed proposals to vary the settlement as a way to free extra hostages earlier than talks on an enduring ceasefire, which have been supposed to start in early February.
Hamas has stated it can solely free the remaining 59 hostages — 24 of whom are believed to be alive — in trade for the discharge of tons of of Palestinian prisoners, an enduring ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal.
— Samy Magdy
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An American trauma surgeon working in Gaza says a lot of the sufferers injured in an Israeli assault on the most important hospital in southern Gaza had been beforehand wounded when Israel resumed airstrikes final week.
Californian surgeon Feroze Sidhwa, who’s working with the medical charity MedGlobal, stated Monday he had been within the intensive care unit at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis when an airstrike hit surgical wards on Sunday.
Many of the injured had been recovering from wounds suffered in airstrikes final week when Israel resumed the struggle, he stated.
“They have been already trauma sufferers and now they’ve been traumatized for a second time,” Sidhwa, who was raised in Flint, Mich., advised Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Sidhwa stated he had operated on a person and boy days earlier than who died within the assault.
