Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip (AP)-At least 40 Palestinians died in the Israeli air strike in the Gaza strip, hospital officials said on Wednesday that international mediators raced to complete the ceasefire deal.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu near A Second meeting with US President Donald Trump in two days At the White House on Tuesday evening. Trump is insisting on a ceasefire that can end the 21 -month war in Gaza. Israel and Hamas are considering a new US-supported ceasefire proposal that will stop the war, free the Israeli hostages and send very important assistance to Gaza.
Nasir Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis said that 17 women and 10 children were included in the dead. It said that a strike killed 10 people from the same family, including three children.
The Israeli army did not comment on the specific strike, but said that the previous day Gaza had more than 100 targets, including terrorists, booby-trapped structures, arms storage facilities, missile launchers and tunnels. Israel accused Hamas of hiding arms and fighters among the citizens.
Struggle to secure food and water
Many Palestinians are watching a ceasefire conversation with desperation to the end of war with war.
In the huge coastal mousi area, where many people live in ad hoc tents after being displaced from their homes, Abeyer al-Nazar said she was struggling during a constant bombing to secure enough food and water for her family. “I pray to God that there will be a break, and not only a break where they lie to us with a month or two, then start doing what they are doing. We want a complete ceasefire.”
Her husband, Ali al-Nazar, said that life has been particularly difficult in summer, there is no access to drinking water in crowded tent in the Middle Eastern Summer. “We hope this will end our grief and we can reconstruct our country again,” he said, before running through the crowd with two buckets to fill with a water truck.
People chased the vehicle as it moved to another place.
Amani Abu-Omar said that the water truck comes every four days, not for its dehydrated children. He complained of skin rashes in summer heat. She said that she was desperate for a ceasefire, but feared she would be disappointed again. “We had expected a ceasefire on several occasions, but it was nothing,” he said.
Hamas launched the war after attacking Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and held 251 hostage. Most hostages have been released in earlier ceasefire. The aggressive Israel’s aggressive in Gaza killed more than 57,000 Palestinians, according to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, more than half of them.
The Ministry, which is under the Hamas-Interested Government of Gaza, does not distinguish between citizens and fighters. The United Nations and other international organizations see its figures as the most reliable figures on war casualties.
Netanyahu and Trump meet again
Netanyahu told reporters at Capital on Tuesday that he and Trump see “eye to eye” at the need to destroy Hamas. He said that cooperation and coordination between Israel and America is currently the best which has been still in Israel’s 77 years of history.
At the end of this week, Tram’s Middle East Envoy, Steve Witcoff is expected to be the head of the Katri capital of Doha to continue indirect talks with Hamas on the resolution of ceasefire.
Witcoff said late Tuesday night that three major areas of disagreement were resolved, but this is still an important issue. He was not detailed.
After the second meeting, Netanyahu said that he and Trump also discussed the “great victory” over Iran from Israel and American strike during 12-day war It ended two weeks ago.
“For expansion, opportunities have been opened here to expand the circle of peace Abraham Agreement, ” Netanyahu said, referring to generalization agreements between Israel and several Arab countries, who was a broker in his first term by Trump. Washington is Emphasis for generalization Between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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Cheheb reported from Berut, and Lidman reported from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated press writer Amer Madhani contributed to this report in Washington.
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Wafa Shurafa, Karim Cheheb, and Melanie Lidman, The Associated Press
