The two officials called to talk about “the proposal to achieve a full ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of the Hamas hostages, according to Miller. Deadly Israeli bombings continued to target the Gaza Strip on Sunday, after almost eight months of war.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), Israel also struck a factory near Aleppo during the night from Sunday to Monday.in northern Syria, killing “at least twelve pro-Iranian fighters of Syrian and foreign nationalities”.
Since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, Israel has struck the country hundreds of times, targeting the army of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the pro-Iranian groups based there and supporting it.
On April 13, Tehran carried out an unprecedented attack against Israel in response to a strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus which notably killed senior Iranian officers. In Gaza, despite protests from the international community, the Israeli army continues its offensive in Rafah, a border town with Egypt in the south of the Palestinian territory, intended according to it to destroy the last battalions of the Islamist movement.
After the presentation on Friday by American President Joe Biden of an Israeli plan for a cease-fire, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed his determination to continue the war until the elimination of Hamas.
