Middle East live blog: ++ Hamas sees no progress in negotiations ++


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As of: April 8, 2024 11:15 a.m

While Israel’s media talks about a rapprochement in the negotiations, Hamas disagrees – it sees no progress. Israel’s army is making military preparations on the border with Lebanon. All developments in the live blog.

A Palestinian woman has been killed in an attempted knife attack, according to the Israeli military. The woman initially refused to identify herself at an army barrier in the occupied West Bank and then tried to attack soldiers with a knife. The soldiers then shot at them and “knocked them out.” There were no injuries among the troops.

The information cannot currently be independently verified. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah confirmed the woman’s death from gunfire in the incident near the town of Tubas.

Australia has appointed former armed forces chief Mark Binskin to investigate the Israeli army’s deadly airstrike on international aid workers in the Gaza Strip. Seven World Central Kitchen helpers were killed in the attack last week, including an Australian woman.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he expected full cooperation from Israel with Biskin as Australia’s special adviser. It is also about the Israeli reaction to the incident. “We don’t find these explanations satisfactory so far,” Albanese told ABC. It is also unacceptable that almost 200 aid workers have died since the beginning of the Gaza war.

According to its own information, the UN World Food Program (WFP) is waiting for rapid processing at the border crossings from Israel to the Gaza Strip with food that will last for more than a million people for three months. These accumulated goods just need to be brought into the Gaza Strip in order to be able to alleviate hunger, especially among younger children, with suitable food, said Cindy McCain, the director of the WFP, to the US broadcaster CNN. You are literally on the verge of famine.

A hearing has begun at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Nicaragua’s accusation that Germany is violating the Genocide Convention by supporting Israel. Nicaragua argues that Germany is enabling genocide in the Gaza Strip by providing political, financial and military aid to the Israeli government and cutting funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for the Palestinians (UNRWA).

Israel has accused the militant Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas of firing rockets at Israel from a “humanitarian zone” in the south of the Gaza Strip. Israeli fighter jets targeted and destroyed three Hamas launch pads in such a zone to the west of the city of Khan Yunis, the army said. The military withdrew from Khan Yunis on Sunday after a month-long ground operation.

On Sunday, three projectiles were fired at Israeli towns from the conflict-free area in Khan Yunis, the statement said. They struck in an open area. No civilians were endangered in the subsequent Luftwaffe attack on the launch pads. Hamas initially did not comment on the incidents.

Conflict parties as a source

In the current situation, information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by official bodies of the Russian and Ukrainian parties to the conflict cannot be directly verified by an independent body.

Gray areas: Built-up areas in the Gaza Strip, hatching: Israeli army

The Israeli army says it has deliberately killed an important commander of the pro-Iranian Shiite militia Hezbollah. He is a commander of the Radwan Force, an elite Hezbollah unit in southern Lebanon. He and two other Hezbollah fighters under his command were killed in an air strike in Sultaniya. Hezbollah confirmed the commander’s death but gave no further details.

According to the militant Islamist Hamas, there is said to have been no progress in the indirect negotiations for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The Qatari TV channel Al-Jazeera reported this morning, citing circles in the Islamist terrorist organization, that the Israeli delegation had not responded to any of Hamas’ demands. Representatives of the group left Cairo for consultations with their leaders.

Israeli media, however, reported that both sides had shown more flexibility. There is currently no official information on the current status of negotiations. There is currently no official information on the current status of negotiations. There had previously been reports of progress towards an agreement.

According to security sources, three people were killed in an Israeli attack on southern Lebanon. Among them was a commander of the Lebanese Hezbollah’s Al Radwan special forces, two insiders said.

According to an Egyptian TV report, progress has been made in ceasefire talks. There is agreement on the key points, reported the broadcaster Al-Kahera News, citing an Egyptian insider.

The Israeli army says it has made further preparations for a possible war on the border with Lebanon. “A new phase in the Northern Command’s preparation for war has been completed,” the military said. The army is thus able to “call up and equip all the soldiers it needs within a few hours and bring them to the front for defensive and offensive missions.”

Around 50,000 people demonstrated in Jerusalem for the return of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas. A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of those kidnapped are being negotiated in Cairo. Sunday’s live blog for reading.

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