Hamas meet Egypt’s spy chief, says Israel’s attacks on Gaza threaten truce

The gathering successful Cairo comes arsenic Palestinians successful Gaza held funerals for the dozens of radical killed successful Israel’s latest attacks.

A elder delegation from Hamas has met Egypt’s quality main successful Cairo to sermon Israel’s breaches of the ceasefire agreement, the radical said, arsenic Palestinians successful Gaza held funerals for dozens of people killed successful caller Israeli attacks.

In a connection connected Sunday, the radical said it reaffirmed its committedness to implementing the archetypal signifier of the ceasefire statement successful its gathering with Hassan Rashad, but accused Israel of “continued violations” that it said threatened to “undermine the deal”.

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Hamas, whose delegation included its exiled Gaza main Khalil al-Hayya, called for a “clear and defined mechanism” nether the supervision of mediators to papers and halt immoderate breaches of the deal.

Egypt, Qatar and the United States person been mediating betwixt Hamas and Israel, securing the ceasefire that came into effect past month.

The Palestinian radical said it besides discussed with Egypt ways to urgently resoluteness the contented of Hamas fighters holed up successful passageway networks successful Rafah successful Israeli-controlled areas of Gaza.

It said connection with the fighters has been severed.

The gathering came a time aft Israeli forces launched a question of aerial attacks crossed Gaza, destroying homes, makeshift shelters and a car, sidesplitting astatine slightest 24 Palestinians, including children.

The Israeli subject said it was targeting Hamas members aft the radical sent a combatant into Israeli-controlled Gaza territory to onslaught Israeli soldiers there. The subject said a section Hamas commandant was among those killed successful the Saturday strikes.

Hamas has rejected the allegations, saying Israel was looking for an excuse to kill. The radical connected Saturday called connected the mediators – Egypt, Qatar and the US – to intervene urgently and exert unit connected Israel to “immediately halt these violations”.

According to the Gaza Government Media Office, Israel has violated the ceasefire astatine slightest 497 times since it came into effect connected October 10.

Some 342 civilians person been killed successful the attacks, with children, women and the aged accounting for the bulk of the victims, it said.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Gaza City, said Palestinians determination fearfulness an enlargement of Israel’s attacks.

“It’s precise hard to archer that there’s a letup successful presumption of Israel’s attacks connected Gaza. We are seeing continuous attacks beyond the ‘yellow line’, which are the areas nether Israeli control. We are seeing demolition and systematic demolition of civilian infrastructure and landmarks, and the turning of this country into a barren landscape,” Abu Azzoum said.

“People present are acrophobic astir the imaginable enlargement of Israel’s attacks to different areas successful Gaza successful the coming days. People are besides sceptical of the anticipation of moving from signifier 1 of the ceasefire to signifier 2 arsenic they are inactive waiting to spot if the woody tin beryllium sustained and if determination volition beryllium advancements successful presumption of the travel of humanitarian assistance and reconstruction efforts,” helium added.

Phase 1 of the ceasefire – based connected US President Donald Trump’s bid program – involves the speech of captives and prisoners, the transportation of humanitarian assistance and the opening of the Rafah crossing with Egypt.

So far, Hamas has released each remaining surviving captives and returned dozens of bodies, but for three. Israel has released astir 2,000 Palestinians, including prisoners serving beingness sentences. But it has placed restrictions connected borderline crossings that proceed to impede the transportation of aid, according to humanitarian groups.

Israel has besides refused to let the Rafah crossing to open.

Phase 2 of the ceasefire meantime calls for Gaza to beryllium governed nether a technocratic Palestinian committee, with oversight and supervision of the Trump-led “board of peace”. The committee is to besides deploy a impermanent International Stabilisation Force to unafraid borderline areas, bid Palestinian constabulary and besides demilitarise Gaza.

Hamas, however, says it volition not laic down weapons arsenic agelong arsenic the Israeli concern continues.

Tump’s program besides says nary Palestinian would beryllium forced to permission Gaza and that “Israel volition not inhabit oregon annex” the territory.

The program has present been endorsed by the United Nations Security Council.