[🇧🇩] Israel and Hamas war in Gaza-----Can Bangladesh be a peace broker?

[Saif]

Hamas says ready to start Gaza ceasefire talks 'immediately'

Hamas on Friday said it was ready to start talks "immediately" on a proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, where the civil defence agency said Israel's ongoing offensive killed more than 50 people.

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Hamas says ready to start Gaza ceasefire talks 'immediately'

AFP Gaza City
Updated: 05 Jul 2025, 11: 47

Most areas in Gaza have turned into ruins from the Israeli strikes. Reuters file photo

Hamas on Friday said it was ready to start talks "immediately" on a proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, where the civil defence agency said Israel's ongoing offensive killed more than 50 people.

The announcement came after it held consultations with other Palestinian factions and before a visit on Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, where President Donald Trump is pushing for an end to the war, now in its 21st month.

"The movement is ready to engage immediately and seriously in a cycle of negotiations on the mechanism to put in place" the terms of a draft US-backed truce proposal received from mediators, the militant group said in a statement.

Hamas ally Islamic Jihad said it supported ceasefire talks, but demanded "guarantees" that Israel "will not resume its aggression" once hostages held in Gaza are freed.

The conflict in Gaza began with Hamas's unprecedented attack on Israel on 7 October, 2023, which sparked a massive Israeli offensive aimed at destroying Hamas and bringing home all the hostages seized by militants.

Two previous ceasefires brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the United States have seen temporary halts in fighting, coupled with the return of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.

Netanyahu earlier on Friday vowed to bring home all the hostages held in Gaza, after coming under massive domestic pressure over their fate.

"I feel a deep commitment, first and foremost, to ensure the return of all our abductees, all of them," he said.

Trump said on Thursday he wanted "safety for the people of Gaza". "They've gone through hell," he said.

60-day truce proposal

A Palestinian source familiar with the negotiations told AFP earlier this week that the latest proposals included "a 60-day truce, during which Hamas would release half of the living Israeli captives in the Gaza Strip" -- thought to number 22 -- "in exchange for Israel releasing a number of Palestinian prisoners and detainees".

Out of 251 hostages seized by Palestinian militants during the October 2023 attack, 49 are still held in Gaza, including 27 the Israeli military says are dead.

Nearly 21 months of war have created dire humanitarian conditions for the more than two million people in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has recently expanded its military operations.

The military said in a statement it had been striking suspected Hamas targets across the territory, including around Gaza City in the north and Khan Yunis and Rafah in the south.

Civil defence says aid-seekers killed

Gaza civil defence official Mohammad al-Mughayyir said Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 52 people on Friday.

The Israeli military said it was looking into reports, except for a handful of incidents for which it requested coordinates and timeframes.

Media restrictions in Gaza and difficulties in accessing many areas mean AFP is unable to independently verify the tolls and details provided by the civil defence agency.

In a separate statement, the Israeli military said a 19-year-old sergeant "fell during combat in the southern Gaza Strip".

Mughayyir said the Palestinians killed included five shot while waiting for aid near a US-run site near Rafah in southern Gaza and several who were waiting for aid near the Wadi Gaza Bridge in the centre of the territory.

They were the latest in a spate of deaths near aid distribution centres in the devastated territory, which UN agencies have warned is on the brink of famine.

At Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, crowds mourned 16 people killed on Thursday by what the civil defence agency said was shooting close to a nearby aid centre.

"I lost my brother in the American distribution centre that they set up to feed people," cried one mourner, Narmin Abu Muammar. "They are killing people, not feeding them."

Medical aid charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Abdullah Hammad, who recently finished a contract working for it, was among those killed in Thursday's shooting.

It said he was the 12th colleague the group had lost in the Gaza war. "We demand an end to this bloodshed," MSF said in a statement.

The US- and Israeli-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has distanced itself from reports of deadly incidents near its sites.

Displaced civilians

Mughayyir told AFP that eight people, including a child, were killed in an Israeli air strike on the tents of displaced civilians near Khan Yunis.

The civil defence official said eight more people were killed in two other strikes on camps on the coast, including one that killed two children early Friday.

The Israeli military said it was operating throughout Gaza "to dismantle Hamas military capabilities".

The Hamas attack of 7 October 2023 resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli official figures.

Israel's retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 57,268 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry. The United Nations considers the figures reliable.​

 

[Saif]

Over 500 killed around GHF aid distributions in Gaza: UN

More than 500 people have been killed in the vicinity of the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's sites since late May, the United Nations said Friday.

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Over 500 killed around GHF aid distributions in Gaza: UN

AFP Geneva
Published: 05 Jul 2025, 10: 07

More than 500 people have been killed in the vicinity of the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's sites since late May, the United Nations said Friday. Reuters file photo

More than 500 people have been killed in the vicinity of the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's sites since late May, the United Nations said Friday.

An officially private effort, the GHF began operations on 26 May after Israel halted supplies into the Gaza Strip for more than two months, sparking famine warnings.

GHF operations have been marred by chaotic scenes and near-daily reports of Israeli forces firing on people waiting to collect rations in the Palestinian territory, where the Israeli military is seeking to destroy Hamas.

Overall, "we have recorded 613 killings" near GHF distribution points and near humanitarian convoys since the GHF began operations, until noon on 27 June, UN human rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters.

"Of the 613 figure that I mentioned, 509 people killed were killed near the GHF distribution." The others were killed "near UN and non-UN convoys", she said.

Shamdasani said the figures were evolving as the UN human rights office receives "further reports of killings since then that we are working to corroborate".

Call for investigation

Shamdasani said the task was being made more difficult by lack of access to the Gaza Strip.

"It is clear that the Israeli military has shelled and shot at Palestinians trying to reach the distribution points," she added.

"How many killings? Who is responsible for that? We need an investigation. We need access. We need an independent inquiry, and we need accountability for these killings."

The United Nations and major aid groups have refused to cooperate with the foundation over concerns it was designed to cater to Israeli military objectives and violates basic humanitarian principles.

Based in Delaware in the United States, GHF said Thursday it had handed out more than a million boxes of foodstuffs in Gaza.

GHF's chairman is Johnnie Moore, a Christian evangelical leader allied to US President Donald Trump.

"We have not had a single violent incident in our distribution sites. We haven't had a violent incident in close proximity to our distribution sites," he told journalists in Brussels on Wednesday.

Rik Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization's representative in the Palestinian territories, spoke about the deaths, saying: "The senseless killing in Gaza must stop".

Peeperkorn visited the territory's Nasser Medical Complex this week, saying there were "patients everywhere: on the floor, in the corridors", he said.

"It's mainly boys, young adolescents, young men, and we all know that they go to these so-called safe, non-UN food distribution sites," he added. "There are so many of these cases shot in the head, shot in the neck, shot in the chest."​

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Hamas seeks ceasefire guarantees as scores more are killed in Gaza

Hamas is seeking guarantees that a new US ceasefire proposal for Gaza would lead to the war's end, a source close to the militant group said on Thursday, as medics said Israeli strikes across the territory had killed scores more people. Israeli officials said prospects for reaching a ceasefire dea

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Hamas seeks ceasefire guarantees as scores more are killed in Gaza

REUTERS
Published :
Jul 03, 2025 18:35
Updated :
Jul 03, 2025 18:35


Hamas is seeking guarantees that a new US ceasefire proposal for Gaza would lead to the war's end, a source close to the militant group said on Thursday, as medics said Israeli strikes across the territory had killed scores more people.

Israeli officials said prospects for reaching a ceasefire deal and hostage deal appeared high, nearly 21 months since the war between Israel and Hamas began.

Efforts for a Gaza truce have gathered steam after the U.S. secured a ceasefire to end a 12-day aerial conflict between Israel and Iran, but on the ground in Gaza intensified Israeli strikes continued unabated, killing at least 59 people on Thursday, according to health authorities in the territory.

On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said that Israel had accepted the conditions needed to finalise a 60-day ceasefire with Hamas, during which the parties will work to end the war.

Hamas is seeking clear guarantees that the ceasefire will eventually lead to the war's end, the source close to the group said. Two Israeli officials said that those details were still being worked out.

Ending the war has been the main sticking point in repeated rounds of failed negotiations.

Egyptian security sources said Egyptian and Qatari mediators were working to secure U.S. and international guarantees that talks on ending the war would continue as a way of convincing Hamas to accept the two-month truce proposal.

A separate source familiar with the matter said that Israel was expecting Hamas' response by Friday and that if it was positive, an Israeli delegation would join indirect talks to cement the deal.

The proposal includes the staggered release of 10 living Israeli hostages and the return of the bodies of 18 more in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, sources say. Of the 50 remaining hostages in Gaza, 20 are believed to still be alive.

A senior Israeli official close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said preparations were in place to approve a ceasefire deal even as the premier heads to Washington to meet Trump on Monday.

'READINESS TO ADVANCE'

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen, who sits on Netanyahu's security cabinet, told news website Ynet that there was "definitely readiness to advance a deal."

In Gaza, however, there was little sign of relief. At least 17 people were killed in an Israeli strike that hit a school in Gaza City where displaced families were sheltering, according to medics.

"Suddenly, we found the tent collapsing over us and a fire burning. We don’t know what happened," one witness, Wafaa Al-Arqan, told Reuters. "What can we do? Is it fair that all these children burned?"

According to medics at Nasser hospital farther south, at least 20 people were killed by Israeli fire en route to an aid distribution site.

The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports and that its forces were taking precautions to mitigate harm to civilians as it battled Palestinian militants throughout Gaza.

The war began when Hamas fighters stormed into Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.

Israel's subsequent military assault has killed more than 57,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza health ministry, while displacing most of the population of more than 2 million, triggering widespread hunger and leaving much of the territory in ruins.

Israel says it won't end the war while Hamas is still armed and ruling Gaza. Hamas, severely weakened, says it won't lay down its weapons but is willing to release all the hostages still in Gaza if Israel ends the war.​

If Hamas can not sustain war than why scratched it so long. You got whole civilian area bombed and now presse for ceasefire. Had you provoked Israel to get your civilian area destroyed and make millions homeless, children leaving education etc. *&*&*&*&*&*&*&*& want peace after ruining habitat of millions.

 

[Saif]

If Hamas can not sustain war than why scratched it so long. You got whole civilian area bombed and now presse for ceasefire. Had you provoked Israel to get your civilian area destroyed and make millions homeless, children leaving education etc. &&&&&&&& want peace after ruining habitat of millions.

Hamas should not have attacked Israel alone because the Israeli army is far more powerful than Hamas.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Hamas should not have attacked Israel alone because the Israeli army is far more powerful than Hamas.

No issue in Attacking Israeli army. Why are you killing civilians? Pared girls naked . Killing infants. When you do that, you loose sympathy of non Muslims.