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According to some reports, the tanks reached about 200 meters from the border crossing point with Egypt, the one through which the aid for the population of the Gaza Strip enters. More than half of the enclave’s residents are crammed into Rafah, driven from their homes by the Israeli offensive that began in the north of the territory after Hamas attacks on October 7. Israel asked people to leave an area about 10 kilometers to the north.
Qatar is sending a delegation to Cairo on Tuesday to continue negotiations for a truce
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar announced during the night from Monday to Tuesday that it will send a delegation to Cairo, in Egypt, in order to obtain the conclusion of an armistice agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“The Qatari delegation will go to Egypt on Tuesday morning to relaunch indirect negotiations between the two sides (…) with the hope of reaching an agreement for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in exchange for prisoners and hostages”, he indicated in a press release the spokesperson of diplomacy from Doha, Majed al-Ansari.
UN: The “invasion” of Rafah is “intolerable”
The “invasion” of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, where Israel has promised to carry out a major ground operation, would be “intolerable”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres insisted on Monday, urging Israel and Hamas to make an “additional effort”. for a truce.
“We have issued a very strong call today to the Israeli government and Hamas leaders to make an additional effort to materialize a vital agreement,” he said, echoing the words of his spokesman earlier in the day after Hamas said it had accepted a proposal truce.
“It is an opportunity that cannot be missed. The ground invasion of the city of Rafah would be intolerable because of its devastating humanitarian consequences and its destabilizing impact in the region”, insisted the Secretary General in front of the press, receiving Italian President Sergio Mattarella.
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas announced late Monday that it had accepted a truce proposal presented by mediators, after the start of an Israeli operation to evacuate tens of thousands of people from Rafah, on the southern edge of the besieged Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the proposal was “far from Israeli demands”, adding at the same time that the country would send a delegation “to mediators to exhaust the possibilities of reaching an agreement” on a truce.
After the announcement by Hamas, the Israeli army carried out intense bombardments in the east of the overpopulated city of Rafah, where the residents were urged to leave, writes Agerpres.
“Today’s evacuation orders for the eastern city of Rafah will simply increase the suffering of civilians. (…) A massive evacuation of this magnitude is impossible to do safely,” Antonio Guterres’ spokesman, Stéphane, told the media on Monday. Dujarric
UNICEF, for its part, declared itself alarmed by the fate of approximately 600,000 children huddled in Rafah, threatened with a “new imminent catastrophe”.
The armed wing of Islamic Jihad claims to have launched rockets from the Gaza Strip at Israel
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad reported on Monday evening that it had fired rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, amid intense Israeli bombardment of the city of Rafah and Hamas’s approval of a draft truce.
“We targeted with rocket barrages (the city of) Sderot, (kibbutz) Nir Am and other settlements” in the area of Israel located around the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian armed group indicated in a statement.
The Israeli military indicated that sirens were heard in areas around the Gaza Strip.
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