#ceasefire-negotiations

#ceasefire-negotiations

The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will stay closed until further notice, Israel has said, after the Palestinian embassy in Cairo said the territory's sole gateway to the outside world would reopen on Monday. The statement by Benjamin Netanyahu's office said reopening Rafah would depend on how Hamas fulfils its ceasefire role of returning the remains of all 28 dead hostages.

Israeli officials are in Cairo negotiating a ceasefire agreement with Hamas based on a 20-point plan presented by US President Donald Trump. The agreement would see the remaining 47 Israeli hostages returned (25 of whom are presumed dead), a cessation of Israel's bombing campaign and the creation of an interim government for Gaza led by former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry says it condemns and denounces in the strongest terms the brutal Israeli aggression'. An Israeli attack in Qatar's capital, Doha, targeting Hamas officials has drawn swift condemnation from across the region and beyond with the UN chief calling the air strikes a flagrant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office confirmed that the Israeli military carried out the attack in Doha on Tuesday against Hamas leaders.

"I renew my heartfelt appeal to allow access for decent humanitarian aid and to end the hostilities, whose heartbreaking price is paid by children, the elderly and the sick."

Moscow squanders another opportunity to put an end to the killings. This once again demonstrates that Russia's only goal is to prolong the war.

"It's a war that would have never happened if I was president. It's Biden's war. It's not my war. I have nothing to do with it."