Israel bombards Gaza City; Hamas leader visits Cairo in bid to salvage ceasefire talks
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Egypt sends 2,300 tonnes of humanitarian relief to Gaza
Trucks delivered 2,300 tonnes of humanitarian relief to Gaza, including 2,200 food baskets, flour and medicines. The trucks entered the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Abu Salem crossing, located at the southesternmost point of the territory.
Aid trucks delivered 2,300 tonnes of humanitarian relief to Gaza, including 2,200 food baskets, flour and medicines. The effort is part of “Zad Al-Izza: From Egypt to Gaza,” an initiative launched on July 27 which also delivered flour, baby milk, medical and therapeutic medicines, personal care supplies and large quantities of fuel.
The trucks entered the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Abu Salem crossing, located at the southesternmost point of the territory. The crossing is controlled by Israel.
The Egyptian Red Crescent said that the Rafah crossing, controlled by Egypt on its side of the border, remains operational, with more than 36,000 trucks delivering about half a million tonnes of humanitarian aid, supported by 35,000 volunteers since the conflict began.
In May 2024, Israeli forces launched a military attack on Rafah, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying the Rafah crossing terminal.
Israeli forces have only allowed minimal aid to enter Gaza through Rafah since the beginning of the war in 2023.
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France backs joint appeal with Saudi Arabia on Gaza proposing UN-led peacekeepers. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Barrot: “It’s the only way of ending permanent war and building peace and stability in the region” The UN Security Council has called for a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza conflict.
DUBAI: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot voiced support on Tuesday for a joint appeal made with Saudi Arabia at the United Nations for the release of hostages, the disarmament of Hamas, and its exclusion from any future role in governing a Palestinian state.
Warning that any expansion of Israeli military operations into Gaza City and the Al-Mawasi area would be “a recipe for disaster,” the minister said such a move would cause more civilian casualties, endanger hostages, and risk turning the conflict into a war without end.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out his vision of victory in Gaza following 22 months of war – with the military ordered to attack the last remaining Hamas strongholds in Gaza City and the central camps further south.
With a pre-war population of some 760,000, according to official figures, Gaza City was the biggest of any municipal area in the Palestinian territories.
The Barrot called for a permanent ceasefire, the protection of civilians, and the large-scale delivery of humanitarian aid, while proposing a temporary international stabilization mission under a UN mandate to lay the groundwork for lasting peace.
The Security Council should mandate this mission, the minister said, adding that work with international partners had already begun.
“It’s the only credible way of ending permanent war and building peace and stability in the region. Let’s not waste any time,” he said.
France backs joint appeal with Saudi Arabia on Gaza proposing UN-led mission
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot voiced support on Tuesday for a joint appeal made with Saudi Arabia at the United Nations. He called for the release of hostages, the disarmament of Hamas, and its exclusion from any future role in governing a Palestinian state. Barrot called for a permanent ceasefire, the protection of civilians, and the large-scale delivery of humanitarian aid.
Warning that any expansion of Israeli military operations into Gaza City and the Al-Mawasi area would be “a recipe for disaster,” the minister said such a move would cause more civilian casualties, endanger hostages, and risk turning the conflict into a war without end.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out his vision of victory in Gaza following 22 months of war – with the military ordered to attack the last remaining Hamas strongholds in Gaza City and the central camps further south.
With a pre-war population of some 760,000, according to official figures, Gaza City was the biggest of any municipal area in the Palestinian territories.
The Barrot called for a permanent ceasefire, the protection of civilians, and the large-scale delivery of humanitarian aid, while proposing a temporary international stabilization mission under a UN mandate to lay the groundwork for lasting peace.
The Security Council should mandate this mission, the minister said, adding that work with international partners had already begun.
“It’s the only credible way of ending permanent war and building peace and stability in the region. Let’s not waste any time,” he said.
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France backs joint appeal with Saudi Arabia on Gaza proposing UN-led peacekeepers. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Barrot: “It’s the only way of ending permanent war and building peace and stability in the region” The UN Security Council has called for a temporary ceasefire in the Gaza conflict.
DUBAI: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot voiced support on Tuesday for a joint appeal made with Saudi Arabia at the United Nations for the release of hostages, the disarmament of Hamas, and its exclusion from any future role in governing a Palestinian state.
Warning that any expansion of Israeli military operations into Gaza City and the Al-Mawasi area would be “a recipe for disaster,” the minister said such a move would cause more civilian casualties, endanger hostages, and risk turning the conflict into a war without end.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid out his vision of victory in Gaza following 22 months of war – with the military ordered to attack the last remaining Hamas strongholds in Gaza City and the central camps further south.
With a pre-war population of some 760,000, according to official figures, Gaza City was the biggest of any municipal area in the Palestinian territories.
The Barrot called for a permanent ceasefire, the protection of civilians, and the large-scale delivery of humanitarian aid, while proposing a temporary international stabilization mission under a UN mandate to lay the groundwork for lasting peace.
The Security Council should mandate this mission, the minister said, adding that work with international partners had already begun.
“It’s the only credible way of ending permanent war and building peace and stability in the region. Let’s not waste any time,” he said.
Israeli air strikes rock Gaza as Hamas chief arrives in Cairo for ceasefire push
Israeli strikes on Gaza City killed at least 11 people overnight, medics said Tuesday. Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya touched down in Cairo for talks to revive a stalled US-backed ceasefire plan. The latest push comes amid a mounting civilian death toll and deep divisions over terms for ending the war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to expand military control over Gaza, expected to be launched in October, has increased a global outcry over the widespread devastation of the territory and a hunger crisis spreading among Gaza’s largely homeless population of over two million. Israel has since said it will launch a new offensive and seize control of Gaza City, which it captured shortly after the war’s outbreak in October 2023 before pulling out of the negotiating table. The new deaths raised the number of deaths from the same causes to 227, including 103 children, since the war started, it added. It has also raised fears of further displacement and hardship among the estimated one million Palestinians in the Gaza City region.
Israeli planes and tanks kept bombarding eastern areas of Gaza City overnight, killing at least 11 people, witnesses and medics said on Tuesday, with Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya arrived in Cairo for talks to revive a US-backed ceasefire plan.
The latest round of indirect talks in Qatar ended in deadlock in late July with Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas trading blame over the lack of progress on a US proposal for a 60-day truce and hostage release deal.
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Israel has since said it will launch a new offensive and seize control of Gaza City, which it captured shortly after the war’s outbreak in October 2023 before pulling out. Militants regrouped and have waged largely guerrilla-style war since then.
It is unclear how long a new Israeli military incursion into the sprawling city in north Gaza, now widely reduced to rubble, could last or how it would differ from the earlier operation.
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to expand military control over Gaza, expected to be launched in October, has increased a global outcry over the widespread devastation of the territory and a hunger crisis spreading among Gaza’s largely homeless population of over two million.
It has also stirred criticism in Israel, with the military chief of staff warning it could endanger surviving hostages and prove a death trap for Israeli soldiers. It has also raised fears of further displacement and hardship among the estimated one million Palestinians in the Gaza City region.
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Witnesses and medics said Israeli planes and tanks pounded eastern districts of Gaza City again overnight, killing seven people in two houses in the Zeitoun suburb and four in an apartment building in the city centre.
In the south of the enclave, five people including a couple and their child were killed by an Israeli air strike on a house in the city of Khan Younis and four by a strike on a tent encampment in nearby, coastal Mawasi, medics said.
The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports and that its forces take precautions to mitigate civilian harm.
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Separately, it said on Tuesday that its forces had killed dozens of militants in north Gaza over the past month and destroyed more tunnels used by militants in the area.
More deaths from starvation, malnutrition
Five more people, including two children, have died of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza in the past 24 hours, the territory’s health ministry said. The new deaths raised the number of deaths from the same causes to 227, including 103 children, since the war started, it added.
Israel disputes the malnutrition fatality figures reported by the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave.
The war began on October 7, 2023 when Hamas-led militants stormed over the border into southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, according to Israeli figures, in the country’s worst ever security lapse.
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Israel’s ground and air war against the Islamist Hamas in Gaza since then has killed more than 61,000 Palestinians, left much of the enclave in ruins and wrought a humanitarian disaster with grave shortages of food, drinking water and safe shelter.
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Netanyahu, whose far-right ultranationalist coalition allies want an outright Israeli takeover and re-settlement of Gaza, has vowed the war will not end until Hamas is eradicated. A Palestinian official with knowledge of the ceasefire talks said Hamas was prepared to return to the negotiating table.
However, the gaps between the sides appear to remain wide on key issues including the extent of any Israeli military withdrawal and demands for Hamas to disarm, which it has ruled out before a Palestinian state is established.
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An Arab diplomat said mediators Egypt and Qatar have not given up on reviving the negotiations and that Israel’s decision to announce its new Gaza City offensive plan may not be a bluff but served to bring Hamas back to the negotiating table.
(FRANCE 24 with Reuters)