Israel increases strikes in the Gaza Strip on Friday after the departure, without agreement, of the two camps from the negotiating table aimed at achieving a truce and preventing an Israeli offensive on Rafah. In the early hours of Friday, AFP teams reported Israeli artillery fire towards Rafah, on the Egyptian border, and witnesses of airstrikes and fighting in the northern city of Gaza.
Egypt calls on Hamas and Israel to demonstrate “flexibility“in order to achieve”as soon as possible” to a truce in the fighting in Gaza associated with the release of hostages, according to a press release from his Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Hamas gave the green light Monday to a proposal presented by mediators which includes, according to the movement, a truce in three phases, each lasting 42 days, including an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza as well as an exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners with a view to a “permanent ceasefire“.
But Israel responded that this proposal was “far from his demands“and repeated his opposition to a definitive ceasefire as long as Hamas, in power in Gaza since 2007 and which he considers a terrorist organization along with the United States and the European Union, is not”defeated“.
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