[🇧🇩] 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."​

 

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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.

 

[Saif]

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.

Israel has killed close to 60 thousand innocent Palestinians which includes women and children. Could you please show me some proofs about the killing of infants by Hamas? Israel has destroyed even the hospitals, schools and UN food centers.

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Israel has killed close to 60 thousand innocent Palestinians which includes women and children. Could you please show me some proofs about the killing of infants by Hamas? Israel has destroyed even the hospitals, schools and UN food centers.

Here is the news of 9 month old abducted and later his dead body was returned.

Hamas returns 4 bodies, including 2 young children taken hostage but not their mother, Israel says

Hamas released four bodies, including the youngest captive taken in the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack, Kfir Bibas, and his brother.

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When you (Any individual or group) become aggressor and kill inocent, there is no rule that your when enemy kills same number of people, they will stop. If your enemy is powerful, its response will be disproportionate. Had palestinians not backed Hamas, their casually would have been very low. They should have demonstrated just once against the killing of 1500 innocent Israeli civilians.

Pakistan under the leadership of Xia ul Haque had killed 25000 palestinians. You have no issue with that. Saudi get Thousands of Muslims killed. Even your own army committed biggest genocide of the century of your own people. You don't have any issues with them. That is why your selective sympathy is meaningless. When Muslims celebrates the inhuman killing of others and expects world to sympathies with them, it will not happen. Fake Muslim brotherhood and Ummah is purely political. No civilized world has the power ko kill more civilians than Muslims themselves.

 

[Saif]

Here is the news of 9 month old abducted and later his dead body was returned.

Hamas returns 4 bodies, including 2 young children taken hostage but not their mother, Israel says

Hamas released four bodies, including the youngest captive taken in the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack, Kfir Bibas, and his brother.

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When you (Any individual or group) become aggressor and kill inocent, there is no rule that your when enemy kills same number of people, they will stop. If your enemy is powerful, its response will be disproportionate. Had palestinians not backed Hamas, their casually would have been very low. They should have demonstrated just once against the killing of 1500 innocent Israeli civilians.

Pakistan under the leadership of Xia ul Haque had killed 25000 palestinians. You have no issue with that. Saudi get Thousands of Muslims, even your own army committed biggest genocide of your own people. You don't have any issues with them. That is why your selective sympathy is meaningless. When Muslims celebrates the inhuman killing of others and expects world to sympathise with them, it will not happen. Fake Muslim brotherhood and Ummah is purely political. No civilized world has the power ko kill more civilians than Muslims themselves.

Palestinians see Israel as an aggressor who forcefully occupied their land in the 40s. Israel conducted a genocide to grab Palestinians land. The level of hatred that exists between them is impossible to comprehend. But killing of innocent children by anybody be that Hamas or IDF should not be condoned.

 

[Saif]

Israeli Prime Minister says he believes Trump can help seal a ceasefire deal

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he believed his discussions with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday would help advance talks on a Gaza hostage release and ceasefire deal that Israeli negotiators resumed in Qatar on Sunday. Israeli negotiators taking part in the ceasefire talks h

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Israeli Prime Minister says he believes Trump can help seal a ceasefire deal

REUTERS
Published :
Jul 07, 2025 00:05
Updated :
Jul 07, 2025 00:05

An Israeli tank maneuvers in Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, July 6, 2025. Photo : REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he believed his discussions with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday would help advance talks on a Gaza hostage release and ceasefire deal that Israeli negotiators resumed in Qatar on Sunday.

Israeli negotiators taking part in the ceasefire talks have clear instructions to achieve a ceasefire agreement under conditions that Israel has accepted, Netanyahu said on Sunday before boarding his flight to Washington.

"I believe the discussion with President Trump can certainly help advance these results," he said, adding that he was determined to ensure the return of hostages held in Gaza and to remove the threat of Hamas to Israel.

It will be Netanyahu's third visit to the White House since Trump returned to power nearly six months ago.

Public pressure is mounting on Netanyahu to secure a permanent ceasefire and end the war in Gaza, a move opposed by some hardline members of his right-wing coalition. Others, including Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, have expressed support.

Palestinian group Hamas said on Friday it had responded to a U.S.-backed Gaza ceasefire proposal in a "positive spirit", a few days after Trump said Israel had agreed "to the necessary conditions to finalize" a 60-day truce.

But in a sign of the potential challenges still facing the two sides, a Palestinian official from a militant group allied with Hamas said concerns remained over humanitarian aid, passage through the Rafah crossing in southern Israel to Egypt and clarity over a timetable for Israeli troop withdrawals.

Netanyahu's office said in a statement that changes sought by Hamas to the ceasefire proposal were "not acceptable to Israel". However, his office said the delegation would still fly to Qatar to "continue efforts to secure the return of our hostages based on the Qatari proposal that Israel agreed to".

Netanyahu has repeatedly said Hamas must be disarmed, a demand the militant group has so far refused to discuss.

Netanyahu said he believed he and Trump would also build on the outcome of the 12-day air war with Iran last month and seek to further ensure that Tehran never has a nuclear weapon. He said recent Middle East developments had created an opportunity to widen the circle of peace.

HOSTAGES

On Saturday evening, crowds gathered at a public square in Tel Aviv near the defence ministry headquarters to call for a ceasefire deal and the return of around 50 hostages still held in Gaza. The demonstrators waved Israeli flags, chanted and carried posters with photos of the hostages.

The latest bloodshed in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict was triggered on October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.

Gaza's health ministry says Israel's retaliatory military assault on the enclave has killed over 57,000 Palestinians. It has also caused a hunger crisis, displaced the population, mostly within Gaza, and left the territory in ruins.

Around 20 of the remaining hostages are believed to be still alive. A majority of the original hostages have been freed through diplomatic negotiations, though the Israeli military has also recovered some.​

 

[Saif]

Gaza truce talks to resume in Doha before Netanyahu heads to US

Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas are set to resume Sunday in Doha for a Gaza truce and hostage release deal, ahead of a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House...

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Gaza truce talks to resume in Doha before Netanyahu heads to US
Agence France-Presse . Jerusalem, Undefined 06 July, 2025, 23:46

A smoke plume billows from a building that was hit by Israeli bombardment in the Nuseirat camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on July 6, 2025. | AFP photo

Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas are set to resume Sunday in Doha for a Gaza truce and hostage release deal, ahead of a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House.

Netanyahu had earlier announced he was sending a team to Qatar, a key mediator in the conflict, though he said Hamas’s response to a draft US-backed ceasefire deal contained ‘unacceptable’ demands.

Under mounting pressure to end the war, now approaching its 22nd month, Netanyahu is scheduled to meet on Monday with US President Donald Trump, who has been making a renewed push to end the fighting.

A Palestinian official familiar with the talks and close to Hamas said international mediators had informed the group that ‘a new round of indirect negotiations... will begin in Doha today’.

The talks would focus on conditions for a possible ceasefire, including hostage and prisoner releases, and Hamas would also seek the reopening of Gaza’s Rafah crossing to evacuate the wounded, the official told AFP.

Hamas’s delegation, led by its top negotiator Khalil al-Hayya, was in Doha, the official told AFP. Israel’s public broadcaster said the country’s delegation had left for the Qatari capital in the early afternoon.

Netanyahu met Israeli President Isaac Herzog for talks on Gaza and efforts to expand ties with Arab states before his departure for the United States at 5:00 pm (1400 GMT).

In Tel Aviv on Saturday, protesters gathered for a weekly rally demanding the return of hostages held in Gaza since Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack, which triggered the war.

Macabit Mayer, the aunt of captives Gali and Ziv Berman, called for a deal ‘that saves everyone’.

Two Palestinian sources close to the discussions told AFP the proposal included a 60-day truce, during which Hamas would release 10 living hostages and several bodies in exchange for Palestinians detained by Israel.

However, they said, the group was also demanding certain conditions for Israel’s withdrawal, guarantees against a resumption of fighting during negotiations, and the return of the UN-led aid distribution system.

On the ground, Gaza’s civil defence agency said 14 people were killed by Israeli forces on Sunday.

The agency said 10 were killed in a pre-dawn strike on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radawn neighbourhood, where AFP images showed Palestinians searching through the rubble for survivors with their bare hands.

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.

Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military said it could not comment on specific strikes without precise coordinates.

Sheikh Radawn resident Osama al-Hanawi told AFP: ‘The rest of the family is still under the rubble.’

‘We are losing young people, families and children every day, and this must stop now. Enough blood has been shed.’

Since the Hamas attack sparked a massive Israeli offensive with the aim of destroying the group, mediators have brokered two temporary halts in fighting, during which hostages were freed in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli custody.

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

Recent efforts to broker a new truce have repeatedly failed, with the primary point of contention being Israel’s rejection of Hamas’s demand for a lasting ceasefire.

The war has created dire humanitarian conditions for the more than two million people in the Gaza Strip.

Karima al-Ras, from Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, said ‘we hope that a truce will be announced’ to allow in more aid.

‘People are dying for flour,’ she said.

A US- and Israel-backed group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, took the lead in food distribution in the territory in late May, when Israel partially lifted a more than two-month blockade on aid deliveries.

UN agencies and major aid groups have refused to cooperate with the GHF over concerns it was designed to cater to Israeli military objectives.

The UN human rights office said more than 500 people have been killed waiting to access food from GHF distribution points.

The Hamas attack of 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 campaign has killed at least 57,418 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry. The United Nations considers the figures reliable.​