Israel’s military has said the expansion of its campaign is aimed at “achieving all the war’s objectives” including releasing hostages and “the defeat of Hamas”.
In a statement on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said that “even at this very moment, the negotiation team in Doha is working to exhaust every possibility for a deal -- whether according to the Witkoff framework or as part of ending the fighting,“ referring to US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff who has been involved in previous discussions.
Ever since a two-month ceasefire fell apart in March as Israel resumed its offensive, negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States have failed to reach a breakthrough.
Senior Hamas official Taher al-Nunu said on Saturday that the talks in Doha had kicked off “without any preconditions from either side”.
‘No one left’
AFPTV footage showed people sifting through the wreckage of ruined shelters and rescuers treating the wounded.
“All my family members are gone. There is no one left,“ said a distraught Warda al-Shaer standing amid the wreckage in Al-Mawasi.
Bassal said that the “series of violent Israeli air strikes” across Gaza overnight and in the early morning resulted in a total of “at least 33 martyrs, more than half of whom were children”.
Israel’s intensified assault comes as international concern has mounted over worsening humanitarian conditions in Gaza due to a blockade on aid imposed on March 2.
The summit’s final statement urged the international community “to exert pressure to end the bloodshed”.
In Tel Aviv, demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday to protest against Netanyahu’s government and demand it strike a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages.
Of the 251 hostages taken during Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack that triggered the war, 57 remain in Gaza, including 34 the military says are dead.
On Sunday, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza accused Israel of laying siege to the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, where it said “a state of panic and confusion is prevailing”.
With “the shutdown of the Indonesian Hospital, all public hospitals in the North Gaza Governorate are now out of service”, it said.
The Gaza health ministry said that at least 3,193 people have been killed since Israel resumed strikes on March 18, taking the war’s overall toll to 53,339.
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