<\/p>\n
The first phase of the Israel-Hamas truce is due to expire on Saturday, but negotiations on the next stage, which should secure a permanent ceasefire, have so far been inconclusive.<\/p>\n
The ceasefire took effect on January 19 after more than 15 months of war sparked by Hamas\u2019s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, the deadliest in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
Over several weeks, Gaza militants freed 25 living hostages and returned the bodies of eight others to Israel, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The second phase of the fragile truce, which was brokered by the United States, Qatar and Egypt after months of gruelling negotiations, should begin on Sunday, and should secure the release of dozens of hostages still in Gaza.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to hold a ministerial meeting with security officials, according to Israeli media, after he sent a delegation to Egypt for discussions on phase two of the truce.<\/p>\n
On Thursday, Egypt\u2019s State Information Service said: \u201cThe relevant parties have begun intensive talks to discuss the next phases of the truce agreement, amid ongoing efforts to ensure the implementation of the previously agreed understandings.\u201d<\/p>\n
It also said Israeli, Qatari and US delegations were in Cairo for the talks.<\/p>\n
By early Saturday, there was no sign of consensus, or of a presence of a Hamas delegation in the Egyptian capital.<\/p>\n
Max Rodenbeck, of the International Crisis Group think tank, said the second phase cannot be expected to start on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think the ceasefire probably won\u2019t collapse also,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The preferred Israeli scenario is to free more hostages under an extension of the first phase, rather than a second phase, Defence Minister Israel Katz said.<\/p>\n
Hamas, for its part, has pushed hard for phase two to begin, after it suffered staggering losses in the devastating war.<\/p>\n
In a statement, it said that it \u201caffirms its full commitment to implementing all the provisions of the agreement in all its stages and details\u201d.<\/p>\n
The group also called for global pressure on Israel \u201cto immediately enter the second phase of the agreement without any delay\u201d.<\/p>\n
Of the 251 hostages seized during Hamas\u2019s attack, 58\u00a0are still held in Gaza, including 34 the\u00a0Israeli\u00a0military says are dead.<\/p>\n
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal \u201cmust hold\u201d, with just hours to go before the initial phase expires.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe coming days are critical. The parties must spare no effort to avoid a breakdown of this deal,\u201d Guterres said in New York.<\/p>\n
The truce enabled greater aid flows into the territory, where more than 69 percent of buildings were damaged or destroyed, almost the entire population was displaced, and widespread hunger occurred because of the war, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n
In Gaza and throughout the Muslim world, this weekend is also the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n
Among the rubble of a war-devastated neighbourhood of Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, traditional Ramadan lanterns hung.<\/p>\n
The Gaza war began with Hamas\u2019s October 7 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of official figures.<\/p>\n
The Israeli retaliation has killed more than 48,000 people in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory, figures the UN has deemed reliable.<\/p>\n
In a relatively rare incident during the truce, Israel\u2019s military said an air strike on Friday targeted two \u201csuspects\u201d approaching troops in southern Gaza, as a hospital in Khan Yunis said it had received the body of one person killed \u201cin a strike\u201d.<\/p>\n
Among the Israeli hostages released during the first phase of the truce was Eli Sharabi, now 53, who recounted his suffering in a televised interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a year and four months my legs were shackled with chains with very, very heavy locks that cut into your flesh,\u201d Sharabi said.<\/p>\n
He spoke of intense hunger and food deprivation.<\/p>\n
In return for the release of Sharabi and other captives, Israel released around 1,800 Palestinian prisoners from its jails.<\/p>\n
The Israeli branch of Physicians for Human Rights issued a report that denounced mistreatment \u201camounting to torture\u201d of Gazan health care workers in Israeli custody. It said more than 250 have been detained by Israel since the Gaza war began.<\/p>\n
Gaza militants also released five Thai hostages outside the truce deal\u2019s terms.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Rephrase in a different way as if you were a native American speaker as a content creation expert and do not talk about yourself or your experience in the text and do not show yourself as an artificial intelligence who wrote and fill the bullet point in the topic and speak the heart of the topic itself and dont take date of blog in ther first and dont take text like box of newsliter subscribe on post from content and romove all linke insert in content and and remove all affiliate disclosure phrases on content like this “This post may contain Amazon or other affiliate links that allow us to earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Please see our Disclosure Policy for more info” and “#” put in its place bullet point, and romove name of the web site or his links we are take a content from our new creation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first phase of the Israel-Hamas truce is due to expire on Saturday, but negotiations on the next stage, which should secure a permanent ceasefire, have so far been inconclusive. The ceasefire took effect on January 19 after more than 15 months of war sparked by Hamas\u2019s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, the deadliest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[940,3092,3096,3097,1182,143,234,3095,5914,5912,3093,5346,3088,3094,3098,5913],"class_list":{"0":"post-6609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-characters","10":"tag-content","11":"tag-creation","12":"tag-dont","13":"tag-due","14":"tag-experience","15":"tag-expert","16":"tag-expire","17":"tag-israelhamas","18":"tag-native","19":"tag-phase","20":"tag-rephrase","21":"tag-speaker","22":"tag-talk","23":"tag-truce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfanouscar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfanouscar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfanouscar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfanouscar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfanouscar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alfanouscar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6611,"href":"https:\/\/alfanouscar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6609\/revisions\/6611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfanouscar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfanouscar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfanouscar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfanouscar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}