For the first time in months, there are signs that Hamas may be willing to entertain a longer-term ceasefire in Gaza.
A Hamas delegation arrived in Egypt's Cairo on Saturday to discuss efforts toward reaching a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
In the latest sign of a deepening internal fracture within the Palestinian leadership, President Mahmoud Abbas has launched an unprecedented verbal attack on Hamas, calling them “sons of dogs” and demanding they release hostages, disarm, and cede control of Gaza to his Palestinian Authority (PA).
A Hamas delegation met with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in the Qatari capital Doha over the latest developments in the Gaza Strip.
At least 29 Palestinians were killed and more than 50 others injured on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike that hit a residential block in the Shuja'iyya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, Hamas said.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said that its troops in Gaza have found a cache of weapons at Al-Shifa Hospital's maternity ward and MRI centre.
Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has announced the death of the first Israeli hostage due to "shortages of medicine and food".
Sources in the Israeli Defense Ministry told IANS that Israel would stick to its terms, which the war cabinet had agreed upon.
The ongoing indirect peace talks in Qatar capital have hit a roadblock after Israel refused to budge on many demands put forward on behalf of Hamas
US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, will visit Egypt later this week and will be reviewing the ongoing peace talks between Israel and Hamas.
