The talks took place this week in the Egyptian capital Cairo.
Palestinian territories:
Hamas threatened on Saturday to suspend cease-fire talks unless urgent aid was delivered to the northern Gaza Strip, where aid agencies have warned of impending famine.
“The movement intends to suspend negotiations until aid reaches northern Gaza,” a senior Palestinian activist source told AFP.
“Negotiations cannot take place when the Palestinian people are suffering from hunger,” he said, requesting anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the issue.
Talks were held this week in the Egyptian capital Cairo to halt Israel’s four-month war with Hamas in Gaza.
The outcome of the negotiations remains unclear as Israel prepares to enter the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah as part of a mission to neutralize an October 7 attack by Hamas.
But a growing number of people, including Israel’s closest international allies, are calling not to enter the city because the 1.4 million displaced Gazans who have taken refuge there have nowhere to go.
The U.N. World Food Program has warned that Gazans are inching closer to famine, with the northern part of the coast the most worrying because it is inaccessible to aid agencies.
Andrea de Domenico, head of the UN humanitarian agency OCHA in the Palestinian territories, said he had “no idea” how the roughly 300,000 people still in the north had survived.
“What we’ve managed to put forward is absolutely not enough. It’s pure misery,” he told AFP this week.
Calls are growing to allow more trucks carrying aid into Gaza, but Israel has stepped up inspections, saying it is necessary to prevent Hamas leaders from escaping and weapons being smuggled in.
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