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🔴Live: Qatar sends delegation to Cairo to secure truce as Israel presses with Rafah attacks
Qatar will send a delegation to Cairo on Tuesday with a view to securing a truce agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the country’s foreign ministry said. Read our liveblog for all the latest developments in the Israel-Hamas war.
Issued on: 07/05/2024 – 01:55
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Smoke billows after Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 6, 2024.
Smoke billows after Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 6, 2024. © AFP
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Hamas on Monday said it accepted an Egyptian-Qatari proposal for a ceasefire to halt the war in Gaza. Details of the deal were not immediately available.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s office said the Hamas proposal was “far from Israel’s essential demands”, but that Israel would send a team of negotiators to Egypt.
Israel says Rafah is Hamas’ last stronghold, but the United States opposes a full-scale invasion of the city bordering Egyptian unless Israel provides a “credible” plan for protecting civilians there.
A Qatari delegation will head to Cairo on Tuesday to resume indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas through the mediators, Qatar’s foreign ministry said early on Tuesday.
A ground invasion of Rafah would be “intolerable,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday, calling on Israel and Hamas “to go an extra mile” to reach a ceasefire deal.
At least 34,735 Palestinians have been killed and an estimated 78,108 have been wounded in Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory. Some 1,170 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people were taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.
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Qatar to send a delegation to Cairo for truce talks
Qatar will send a delegation to Cairo on Tuesday with a view to securing a truce agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the country’s foreign ministry said.
“The Qatari delegation will head to Cairo on Tuesday morning to resume indirect negotiations between the two parties,” the ministry said in a statement, with the “hope that the talks will culminate in reaching an agreement for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza strip.”
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Yesterday’s key developments:
Israel’s war cabinet on Monday night unanimously approved a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
In a phone call Monday between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the US president “reiterated his clear position” opposing a planned Rafah offensive, said a White House readout.
During the phone call, Netanyahu “agreed to ensure the Kerem Shalom crossing is open for humanitarian assistance“, added the White House readout.
France’s foreign ministry responded to events in Rafah in a strongly worded statement, noting that the “forced displacement of a civilian population constitutes a war crime under international law”.
The Israeli army called Monday on some 100,000 Gazans to leave eastern Rafah for a “humanitarian area” in the Palestinian territory ahead of an expected military operation in the southern Gaza city.
About casualty figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry:
Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. For more on the health ministry’s casualty figures, click here.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, Reuters, AP)
