- Israeli military says it has begun an extensive ground assault throughout northern and southern Gaza with hundreds of Palestinians killed over the past few days.
- The relentless bombardment of Gaza has killed at least 144 Palestinians and rendered all the public hospitals in northern Gaza out of service.
- Israel’s attacks come as it resumes ceasefire talks with Hamas in Qatar.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 53,339 Palestinians and wounded 121,034, according to the Health Ministry. The Government Media Office updated the death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the rubble are presumed dead.
- An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 taken captive.
Here’s what happened today
This live page will soon close. Here’s some of the major developments of the day:
- The Israeli military announced the beginning of a wide-scale ground offensive in northern and southern Gaza after calling up 60,000 troops.
- Israel said it will allow a “basic amount” of humanitarian aid into Gaza to avoid a famine, more than two months after imposing a total blockade that has left much of the population facing starvation.
- Yemen’s Houthi group warned it will carry out military strikes targeting Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport and other airports in response to Israel’s expanded attack on Gaza.
- Fighting around the Indonesian Hospital and an Israeli military “siege” prompted it to shut down, meaning there are no functioning health centres in northern Gaza.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel “will achieve victory in the Gaza Strip” without addressing ongoing ceasefire negotiations in Doha.
Israel’s aid announcement doesn’t mean aid will flow into Gaza
Israel’s announcement that it will allow desperately needed aid into Gaza does not translate into action, a US-based analyst warns.
“We have not seen anything happen yet. One hopes it will happen immediately and it begins to meet the needs of the people on the ground,” said Yousef Munayyer from the Arab Center Washington DC.
“But everything we’ve seen historically suggests this is not something going to be done in any way out of care or respect for the needs of the Palestinian people.”
Munayyer said the announcement may have been made to stave off the pressure mounting on Israel to halt its punishing blockade that threatens famine in Gaza.
“I wouldn’t call this any kind of significant change just yet,” he told Al Jazeera.
Is the US a barrier to a ceasefire in Gaza?
Emboldened by US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is intensifying his war on Gaza.
The US has blamed Hamas for the renewed Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. But is Washington’s support complicating efforts to reach a permanent ceasefire?
Famine stalks Gaza’s children, with death toll expected to rise
The United Nations had warned of the risk of famine in Gaza long before the aid blockade was imposed on the coastal enclave, and doctors at Kamal Adwan Hospital told a World Health Organization team last year that at least 10 children had starved to death.
Israel has faced increasing pressure to lift its aid blockade, as UN agencies warn of critical shortages of food, clean water, fuel and medicine.
Marwan al-Hams, director of field hospitals at Gaza’s Health Ministry, said that since the blockade began, “57 children have died in Gaza as a result of famine, but in the coming days this number will increase due to the depletion of available food supplies”.
At least 3,193 people have been killed since Israel resumed strikes on March 18, taking the war’s overall toll to 53,339, the ministry said on Sunday.
Ethnic cleansing of Gaza – now and then
Every year, Palestinians around the world remember the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians during the creation of the state of Israel.
Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist militias attacked Palestinian cities and villages, killing about 13,000 people and destroying more than 530 villages. At least 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes, becoming refugees.
Here are the stories of five Palestinians who share their memories of displacement and loss – as well as their hope to return home.
Huge crowd piles pressure on Dutch gov’t to blacklist Israel
Tens of thousands of red-clad protesters have marched through The Hague in the Netherlands to demand that their government do more to halt Israel’s war on Gaza, in what organizers called the country’s biggest demonstration in two decades.
Human rights groups and aid agencies – including Amnesty International, Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) – estimated the peaceful crowd at more than 100,000 people on the streets of The Hague.
“We are calling on the Dutch government: stop political, economic and military support to Israel as long as it blocks access to aid supplies and while it is guilty of genocide, war crimes and structural human rights violations in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories,” said Marjon Rozema of Amnesty.
David Prins, 64, said he was attending the protest “to speak out against the atrocities”.
Israeli strikes batter Gaza hospital as bombing intensifies
In its latest assault on Gaza’s decimated healthcare system, Israel has again targeted the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, this time with drones.
Health officials said fighting around the Indonesian Hospital and an Israeli military “siege” forced it to shut down.
Read the full story here.
Israeli High Court delays Gaza media access hearing for sixth time
Israel’s High Court of Justice has postponed hearing set for May 21 on a petition for independent media access to Gaza, the Times of Israel reports.
The court did not provide a reason for the postponement or set a new date to hear the petition filed by the Foreign Press Association (FPA), which represents international journalists working in Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Israel has prevented all international journalists from reporting independently inside Gaza since the outbreak of the war in October 2023.
‘American pressure’ likely led to Israeli government letting aid in
Yousef Munayyer from the Arab Center Washington DC says the timing of Israel’s announcement that it will allow “basic” aid into Gaza comes as pressure mounts and famine warnings rise.
Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office said the move was made to assist the expansion of its military action in Gaza, but “that obviously does not make sense”, Munayyer told Al Jazeera.
“The timing suggests this was not an announcement that was planned. What all of this suggests is that there’s been some pressure, particularly American pressure, on the Israeli government to let this aid in. Aid has been completely blocked for more than 78 days, and we’re seeing really scary images of starvation and malnutrition, particularly affecting the most vulnerable in Palestinian society.”
France says aid to Gaza must be ‘immediate, massive, and unhindered’
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said that as Israel has finally announced the resumption of some goods to the Gaza Strip after months of total blockade, the entry of aid to the Strip “must be immediate, massive, and unhindered”.
He said in a post on X that the aid “must put an end to the catastrophic humanitarian situation and definitively halt the famine”.
Israel secures Syrian archive on executed spy Eli Cohen
Israel says it has retrieved the official Syrian archive on spy Eli Cohen – a cache of 2,500 documents, photographs, and personal effects linked to the Mossad agent executed in Damascus in 1965.
“In a complex covert operation by the Mossad, in cooperation with a strategic partner service, the official Syrian archive on Eli Cohen was brought to Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. “The trove contains thousands of items that had been kept under tight security by Syrian intelligence for decades.”
Among the items recovered are a handwritten will penned by Cohen hours before his execution, audio recordings and files from his interrogations and those of his sources, letters he wrote to family members in Israel, and photographs from his clandestine mission in Syria.
Netanyahu said retrieving the archive reflected Israel’s “unwavering commitment to bringing back all our missing, prisoners, and hostages”.
Woman killed in Israeli air strike in central Gaza
A Palestinian woman was killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a tent housing displaced people on Al-Barakah Street in Deir el-Balah, the central Gaza Strip, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.
Several others were also injured in the attack.
Unclear when ‘minimal’ aid will start entering starved Gaza
Israel will now allow the flow of humanitarian aid back into Gaza after a near 12-week blockade of humanitarian assistance.
They’re going to allow the minimum amount of food “to ensure a hunger crisis does not develop”. It’s worth mentioning this hunger crisis has already ensued. The population has been starving. Once the ceasefire stopped, Israel completely blocked all aid.
We’re not just talking about food. We’re talking about water, medical supplies, fuel for hospitals. None of that has entered Gaza in nearly three months. There’s been a lot of pressure on the prime minister, on the Israelis from a lot of international partners.
You even had Donald Trump say “people are starving in Gaza”. Because of this pressure, Netanyahu finally decided to allow aid back in. But what the Israelis are saying is this will be a minimum amount of aid, just food, and it’s unclear still when exactly this will take place.
Ben-Gvir says Israeli decision to allow aid into Gaza a ‘grave mistake’
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has denounced Netanyahu’s move to allow aid into Gaza as a “grave mistake”.
“Any humanitarian aid that enters Gaza will benefit Hamas while the hostages suffer in the tunnels,” Ben-Gvir said.
“Netanyahu is making a grave mistake by deciding to bring in aid, and he doesn’t even have a majority for the decision. Hamas must be crushed, not given the means to survive.”
Netanyahu said earlier that his cabinet had approved a decision to allow a “basic” amount of food into Gaza to enable Israel to expand its new military operation.
Israel has imposed a complete blockade on all goods entering Gaza since March 2.
US says it won’t allow humanitarian disaster in Gaza
Israel has blocked the entry of medical, food and fuel supplies into Gaza since the start of March. Health experts are warning that famine is imminent if the war isn’t stopped and aid deliveries resumed.
US President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said the United States won’t allow a worsening disaster to come to fruition in Gaza.
“We do not want to see a humanitarian crisis, and we will not allow it to occur on President Trump’s watch,” Witkoff told ABC News.
The Israeli military campaign has devastated the enclave, pushing nearly all residents from their homes and killing more than 53,000 people, according to Gaza’s health authorities.
Arab states ‘haven’t taken substantive action’ to end Israel’s war on Gaza
As Arab leaders meet in Iraq, Mohamad Elmasry, a professor at the Doha Institute of Graduate Studies, says that while Arab states express a desire to end Israel’s war on Gaza, they haven’t taken “substantive action”.
Israel says it will allow ‘basic amount’ of humanitarian aid into Gaza
Israel says it will allow a “basic amount” of humanitarian aid into Gaza to avoid a famine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has said, more than two months after Israel imposed a total blockade on goods that has left much of the Gaza Strip’s population facing starvation.
“Due to the need to expand the fighting, we will introduce a basic amount of food to the residents of Gaza to ensure no famine occurs,” the prime minister’s office said in a statement.
“A famine might jeopardise the continuation of Operation Gideon’s Chariots aimed at eliminating Hamas.”
The PM’s office said that Israel would prevent Hamas from controlling the distribution of aid to ensure that it does not reach fighters.
It was not immediately clear when aid would enter Gaza, or how.
On March 2, Israel imposed a blockade on food, water and other critical supplies to the already besieged coastal territory.
Israeli prime minister promises ‘victory in Gaza’ amid escalating war
Benjamin Netanyahu has said in a video that Israel “will achieve victory in the Gaza Strip” as Israeli forces expand their operations in Gaza, without addressing the ongoing ceasefire negotiations in Doha.
“There are two interconnected goals for the operation, which are to eliminate Hamas and to free the hostages, and we will achieve both,” he said.
Netanyahu also said that Israel will “establish a barrier along the Jordan River from the [occupied Golan Heights] to Eilat to prevent the infiltration of terrorists and cells”.
Israel’s army ‘directly targeting’ northern Gaza hospital: Doctor
Health officials say fighting around the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza and an Israeli military “siege” prompted it to shut down.
It was the main medical facility in the north after Israeli air strikes last year forced the Kamal Adwan and Beit Hanoon hospitals to stop providing health services.
“There is direct targeting on the hospital including the intensive care unit,” Indonesian Hospital director Dr Marwan al-Sultan said in a statement, adding that no one could reach the facility, which had about 30 patients and 15 medical staff inside.
Israel has repeatedly targeted hospitals during its 19-month war on Gaza. Human rights groups and United Nations-backed experts have accused Israel of systematically destroying Gaza’s healthcare system.
Israeli forces, settlers wage attacks and demolitions in West Bank
Here are details on some of the latest Israeli raids, settler attacks, and demolitions in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian news agency Wafa is reporting:
- Settlers attacked Palestinian citizens in the Rabi’a area, east of Bethlehem. Security sources told Wafa the settlers forced them to leave their land at gunpoint.
- Israeli forces attacked citizens’ vehicles in the towns of Kafr ad-Dik and Bruqin, west of Salfit.
- Local sources reported troops smashed the windows of residents’ cars as they continued raids on the two towns for the fourth consecutive day.
- Israeli authorities forced a Palestinian citizen to demolish his own home in the Shu’fat refugee camp, north of occupied East Jerusalem. Israeli troops said the building lacked a permit.
Every pregnancy in Gaza is high risk, doctor says
Asil Al Jallad – an obstetrician and gynaecologist who has volunteered in Gaza twice, most recently in March when the ceasefire ended – says every pregnancy is classified as high risk in Gaza amid the threat of constant Israeli attacks and endemic malnourishment.
“Imagine being pregnant and going into labour and not knowing how to get to a hospital because there’s no safe way to get [there],” she said, speaking from Doha, Qatar.
“After most of the ambulances were targeted in Gaza, you don’t have a properly functioning ambulance service with the ability to deliver you to a hospital. Some women opted to go by a cart pulled by a donkey or a bike. Some of the women ended up walking in immense darkness because there’s no electricity.”
She said she sometimes spoke to displaced people in tents on the phone to talk them through how to deliver a baby.
Al Jallad said there were still about 67,000 babies delivered in Gaza from October 7, 2023, to the end of January this year. She said she saw many women who were struggling to conceive still seeking treatment, and she spoke about the joy she witnessed from new mothers.
“Despite bombing in the background, despite not knowing if she can actually get home safely, despite the fact that she knows she might not be able to feed him or care for him properly, it’s that thing that comes by instinct – she just enjoys her newborn baby,” she said.
“These people are holding on to every single bit of hope and life.”
US policy shifts on Syria, Yemen, Iran – but not Israel
The US-Israeli plan to get humanitarian aid into Gaza as famine threatens the enclave enables Israel to “force the ethnic cleansing of a huge part of Gaza’s population”, argues Matt Duss, the executive vice president of the Center for International Policy.
Trump visited the Middle East, which saw a shift in US policy on Yemen, Iran and Syria.
Duss tells Steve Clemons, host of The Bottom Line, that the Democratic Party would be wise to learn from Trump’s foreign policy. “The Democrats have completely left the antiwar, pro-diplomacy, pro-peace lane open for Donald Trump to fill,” he said.
Israeli forces kill at least 144 people in Gaza since dawn
At least 144 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn today, medical sources have told to Al Jazeera.
Several people detained at Israeli protest marching towards Gaza
About 10 protesters have been detained by Israeli police while trying to march from the southern city of Sderot towards Gaza, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports.
Alon-Lee Green, national director of the Jewish-Palestinian activist group Standing Together, was reportedly among those detained.
“The arrests are a panicked attempt to silence the growing protest against the killing, abandonment, starvation and destruction,” Standing Together said in a statement.
“We will not stop until the war ends and a deal is reached that returns all the hostages and guarantees a safe future for everyone.”
‘Palestinians not seen as part of humanity,’ says rights group
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned the inaction of the international community as Israel intensifies “its genocidal campaign of mass slaughter and starvation in Gaza”.
“Israel’s genocide, and the world community’s failure to stop its crimes against humanity, have exposed international law as a myth that is only invoked when those the West regards as human beings are impacted,” said Nihad Awad, CAIR’s national executive director, in a statement.
“It is clear that after a decades-long and systematic dehumanization campaign, Palestinians are not seen as part of humanity, otherwise the genocide would have ended long ago.”
CAIR said it is “now or never” for elected officials to speak out against Israel’s plan to “flatten and occupy” Gaza and finish the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.
People in Gaza trying to flee westwards
We’re seeing a series of attacks from the north to the south. One of the latest attacks targeted a house in Jabalia without any warning. At least one Palestinian has been killed and dozens more injured.
More people are fleeing to the western parts of Gaza, trying to escape the Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling. They are evacuating under fire.
Palestinian Civil Defence teams are saying they’re unable to reach the wounded and those trapped underneath the rubble because Israeli quadcopters are targeting whoever approaches these destroyed homes. They’re also saying they don’t have the necessary equipment to rescue victims.
Photos: Thousands in The Hague protest against Israel’s war on Gaza
Three Palestinians killed in new Israeli attack on tent camp in al-Mawasi
An Israeli attack on a tent camp for displaced people in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza, has killed at least three people and wounded others, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.
Families of Israeli captives warn against Israel’s expanded assault
Israel’s expansion of military activity in Gaza could lead to the deaths of living captives and eliminate the chance of recovering the dead, says the Israeli Hostages and Missing Families Forum.
A report by the group’s Hagai Levine and by Tamir Pardo, former head of Israeli intelligence, has warned of “serious dangers” arising from the continued fighting.
The “unstable mental state” of the captives constitutes an “immediate risk factor”, the group said, citing the report.
Intensified fighting could collapse tunnels, change the terrain, and lead to “the disintegration of the chain of command, and the lack of up-to-date intelligence information”.
“The current policy kills lives and erases the dead,” said the group. “Every bomb, every delay increases the danger … Israel can now choose life and return all the abductees. It is time to choose whether to save lives or abandon them.”
‘Gruesome milestone’ as 300 UNRWA workers killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
The chief of the United Nations agency says a “gruesome milestone” has been reached today as the death toll of UNRWA workers killed in Gaza has surpassed 300.
“The vast majority of staff were killed by the Israeli Army with their children & loved ones: whole families wiped out,” Philippe Lazzarini wrote in a post on X.
“Several were killed in the line of duty while serving their communities. Those killed were mostly UN health workers & teachers, supporting their communities.
“Nothing justifies these killings. Impunity will lead to more killing. Those responsible must be held accountable.”
Red Cross urges ‘immediate protection of civilians’
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it has been inundated with hundreds of calls from people desperately seeking help amid the bloodshed in Gaza in recent days, a situation that is “overwhelming” and “beyond our capacity to respond”.
In a statement, it called for “the immediate respect and protection of civilians by all parties during increased military operations”.
“Constant care must be taken to spare them,” it said.
Israeli army says two projectiles launched from Gaza after air raid sirens sound
The Israeli army said two projectiles were launched from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, shortly after it announced it had commenced “extensive ground operations” across the besieged Palestinian territory.
“Following the sirens that sounded in Kissufim [a kibbutz in the northwestern Negev Desert], two projectiles were identified crossing into Israel from the central Gaza Strip,” the army said, adding that one was intercepted and the other fell in an open area.
Hamas’s armed wing claimed responsibility, saying the launches were linked to the new ground operation.
Israel’s military issues forced displacement orders for central Gaza
Israel’s Arabic-language army spokesperson Avichay Adraee has urged residents in parts of central-eastern Gaza to evacuate immediately, warning of an imminent military attack.
In a post on X, Adraee listed the newly designated red zones – shown on a map – as al-Qarara in southern Deir el-Balah, along with the nearby neighbourhoods of Ja’afrawi, al-Sawar, Abu Haddab and al-Satar.
“This is a final and preemptive warning before the attack. We will attack with extreme force every area used to launch rockets,” said the message, which urged civilians to head west towards al-Mawasi.
Western governments unwilling to stop Israel’s attack on Gaza
Since the two-month ceasefire, Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular have intensified the bombing and plans for dividing Gaza, taking it over, and ethnically cleansing it. So this is an ongoing process.
Because of Arab impotence and Western indifference and hypocrisy, what we have today is Israel bombing like there’s no tomorrow. It’s impunity on steroids. It’s racism on steroids. They can bomb whatever moves in Gaza – the children, the hospitals, the tents, and the “safe zone” areas.
Western societies that have leverage over Israel have moved to cautiously understand that this is a war crime happening in Gaza, and it needs to stop. The continuation of more of the same is an unraveling genocide.
There is more and more consciousness of that, and governments seem to understand that, too. There are shy and timid calls for Israel to stop. But none of the Western governments with leverage over Israel are willing to apply the pressure necessary to do so.
Far-right Israeli cabinet members saying ‘the quiet part out loud’ on captives
Netanyahu’s office has noted that there are negotiations for an end to the war but there are pretty strict conditions there: Hamas would need to completely disarm, lay down all of its weapons, and its fighters and members would be exiled outside of the Gaza Strip.
How that would work exactly is still a little bit unclear.
But also, according to Netanyahu, there are military objectives and goals that need to be achieved – which is why they are interested in prolonged fighting.
Meanwhile, members of Netanyahu’s right-wing government only want to see an expansion of the war, and they have said the quiet part out loud: that the captives are not the main goal for Israel any more, that the main goal for them is defeating Hamas no matter what the cost that Israel has to pay.
Houthis warn of attacks on Israeli airports over Gaza assault
Yemen’s Houthi group will carry out military strikes targeting Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport and other airports, says senior official Nasr al-Din Amer.
“This is due to the recent Zionist escalation against the Gaza Strip and the aggression against Yemen, and in continuation of the Yemeni leadership’s decision to impose a ban on this airport and other airports, in addition to the naval ban and the closure of the Umm al-Rashrash port until the aggression stops and the siege on Gaza is lifted,” said Amer.
He warned airlines and passengers, especially foreigners, to leave for their safety.
The Houthis have carried out a campaign of attacks against Israel in self-proclaimed solidarity with Palestinians after Israel launched its assault on Gaza in October 2023.
Two people killed in Israeli attack in northern Gaza
Al-Aqsa TV reports Israeli aircraft have bombed the home of the Labad family in the al-Faluja area of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, killing two people and wounding others.
The al-Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, is undergoing artillery shelling, it said.
The Israeli military said today that it has begun “extensive ground operations” throughout northern and southern Gaza as part of a new campaign.
Death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn rises to 140
Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that 140 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday.
The sources said that 69 people have been killed in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip.
Hospital officials said earlier that one Israeli attack hit a camp sheltering displaced people in al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, killing dozens of people – including children – as they slept in their tents.
No sign of Trump pressuring Israel to halt Gaza attack
Despite skipping Israel on his Middle East tour last week, Trump and his administration have voiced full support for Israel’s actions in Gaza, and the president has shown no public sign of pressuring Netanyahu’s government over the aid cut-off or the mass deaths of civilians.
Hamas released an Israeli-American soldier before Trump’s visit to Gulf Arab countries last week in what it said was a goodwill gesture aimed at getting the long-stalled ceasefire talks back on track.
Trump has said he wants to get the rest of the captives out but hasn’t called on Israel to end the war.
Instead, he has proposed resettling much of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million Palestinians in other countries and redeveloping the territory for others.
Israel has embraced the proposal, which has been condemned by Palestinians, Arab countries and much of the international community. Legal experts said it would violate international law.
‘Struggling to get one meal per day’ in Gaza
The food situation in Gaza has not gotten any better. Palestinians are struggling to get one meal per day. There are even families who say they have not had a meal in three days as the Israeli blockade continues.
The situation is deteriorating every second. Some people are saying that if they escape the air strikes, there is no way they are going to escape the forced starvation.
We’re seeing a series of attacks from the north to the south. There has been continuous artillery shelling. There’s been an advancement of Israeli tanks near the buffer zone. Israeli drones are constantly buzzing in the sky.
Hospitals in the northern part of the Gaza Strip are overwhelmed with wounded Palestinians.
Far-right Dutch politician calls protesters pro-Hamas
Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right, anti-Islam Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, has denounced antisiege protesters in The Hague as being “confused” and pro-Hamas.
“Today a demo in The Hague against Israel + for Hamas,” Wilders said in a post on X without substantiating his characterisation. “Thousands of confused people draw a red line.”
The protest organiser, Oxfam Novib, said participants were marching against Israel’s nearly three-month total siege of Gaza, where more than half a million people face starvation.
Israeli army: No casualties after rockets launched from Gaza
Two rockets have been detected crossing from central Gaza towards Israeli territory, a military statement says.
“One of them was intercepted and the other fell in open territory; no casualties,” it added.
Earlier, the army said warning sirens were activated in the Kissufim settlement near Israel’s fence with Gaza.
Truce talks in Doha include ‘unacceptable’ ideas: Hamas
Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas leader, says some “unacceptable” proposals have been put forward during ceasefire talks in Qatar.
“We are still negotiating, and ideas that are unacceptable to us are being put forward, and we are also putting forward ideas,” Hamdan told Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency.
No final agreement has been reached, he added.
The release of an American-Israeli captive last week was an initiative by Hamas to accelerate the establishment of a ceasefire, he said.
The Palestinian people will decide who their leaders will be, and the only way to achieve this is through elections, Hamdan added.
