Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel raided and destroyed another skyscraper in Gaza city on Monday after warning residents to evacuate. The largest city in Palestine. The military said it was targeting Hamas observation posts and bombs placed around a 12-storey office building.
Israel was destroyed for several days Multiple skyscrapers in Gaza Citydenounces Hamas of incorporating surveillance infrastructure. It ordered people to run away Before the attack on the city with around 1 million residents, experts say I’m experiencing hunger.
President Donald Trump said he was giving Hamas a “final warning” Possibility of a ceasefireArab officials have explained a new US proposal for the immediate release of all remaining hostages in exchange for a temporary ceasefire with 3,000 Palestinian prisoners. A Hamas official called it a “humiliating surrender document,” but extremist groups said it would continue to negotiate.
Two Palestinian gunmen in Jerusalem Fired at the bus stopkilled six people and injured 12 people in the worst attacks on Israelis in nearly a year. Tensions have skyrocketed across Israel and the occupied West Bank in two years since Hamas’ attacks from Gaza on October 7 sparked the war.
Gaza’s health ministry said the hospital received 65 bodies killed in Israeli fires over the past 24 hours, and another 320 people were injured.
AP Audio: Israel is another Gaza city skyscraper as the US advances its new ceasefire proposal
Associated Press Correspondent Charles de Ledesma said paramedics killed at least five people in the shooting attack in Jerusalem.
Four soldiers killed in the attack in Gaza city
Israeli forces said four soldiers were killed in Gaza city on Monday when a group of extremists threw explosive devices into tanks. Another soldier was injured in the subsequent shootout, according to the military.
Israeli attacks killed Most of Hamas’ top leadership And its military capabilities have been greatly reduced. However, the group is still carrying out sporadic guerrilla-style attacks. Since the ground invasion began in 2023, more than 450 Israeli troops have been killed in Gaza.
The loss of more soldiers could further undermine support for the war in Israel. A massive protest was held In recent weeks, they have called for a ceasefire contract with Hamas, which will return hostages.
“Final Warning” suggestion
The “final warning” proposal, presented by Trump’s Middle Eastern envoy, Steve Witkov, calls for the end of negotiations and withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza after hostages are released and a ceasefire has been established.
The prisoner exchange includes hundreds of Palestinians serving life sentences, Hamas, Islamic jihad and Egyptian officials added. Details of the proposal were first reported by Axios.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saa spoke with a Hungarian reporter to confirm that Israel has accepted the latest US proposal and acknowledged that it hopes it will succeed.
Hamas official Bassem Naim said the proposal appears to be designed to be denied as it calls for the release of all hostages on the first day and is seeking Hamas to be disarmed, conditioning the withdrawal of Israeli forces against the establishment of a government in Gaza that is accepted by Israel.
He said Hamas and the alliance group are seeking an agreement to “end the war.” Stop genocideand opens the horizon of political solutions that achieve our legitimate national goals, but not signing humiliating surrender documents. ”
Egyptian officials said the new proposals that Arab mediators received from the United States were broader than before, demanding negotiations to end the war, withdrawal of Israeli forces and Israeli demands that Hamas be disarmed.
The controversy over the end of the war has hampered efforts for a ceasefire
Hamas-led militants lured 251 people in the attack on October 7th, killing around 1,200 civilians. The 48 hostages are still in Gaza, and it is believed that around 20 of them are alive.
Israeli retaliatory attacks have killed at least 64,522 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Approximately half of those killed were women and children. Most of the metropolitan cities have been completely destroyed, displaced about 90% of the Palestinian population of around 2 million.
Hamas said he would only return the remaining hostages (its only negotiation tip) in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a permanent ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. It says he is willing to hand over power to politically independent Palestinians.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected those conditions and said the war would continue until all hostages are returned and Hamas is disarmed. He says Israel will maintain and promote open-ended security controls against Gaza. What he explains As voluntary migration of many of the population that Palestinians and many others view as a plan for forced expulsion.
The mediators previously focused on mediating temporary ceasefires and the release of some hostages, but both continued discussions on a more permanent ceasefire. Witkov left those talks in July, after that Hamas accepted the proposal The mediator said it was roughly the same as the previous ones approved by Israel.
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Ridman reported from Jerusalem from Maggidi of Cairo.
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