Talks to solidify a Gaza truce between Israel and Hamas are underway, with “technical meetings” between the events, Qatar’s overseas ministry stated Tuesday.
“The technical meetings are still happening between both sides,” ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari stated, referring to conferences with lower-level officers on the small print of an settlement. “There are no principal meetings taking place at the moment.”
Mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States have been engaged in months of talks between Israel and Hamas which have failed to finish the devastating battle in Gaza.
Al-Ansari stated there have been “a lot of issues that are being discussed” within the ongoing conferences, however declined to enter particulars “to protect the integrity of the negotiations.”
Hamas stated on the finish of final week that oblique negotiations in Doha had resumed, whereas Israel stated it had approved negotiators to proceed the talks within the Qatari capital.
A earlier spherical of mediation in December ended with either side blaming the opposite for the deadlock, with Hamas accusing Israel of setting “new conditions” and Israel accusing Hamas of throwing up “obstacles” to a deal.
In December, the Gulf emirate expressed optimism that “momentum” was returning to the talks following Donald Trump’s election victory within the United States.
A month earlier, Doha had stated it was placing its mediation on maintain, and that it will resume when Hamas and Israel confirmed “willingness and seriousness.”
The little progress in cease-fire talks comes regardless of continued Israeli violence in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces killed at the least three Palestinians in stepped-up operations throughout the occupied West Bank on Tuesday following the killing of three Israelis close to a Jewish settlement.
The Palestinian Health Ministry stated an 18-year-old was killed in a single day in an Israeli airstrike in Tamun, a city northeast of Nablus metropolis, whereas a 40-year-old was shot lifeless within the close by village of Taluza.
The Israeli navy stated that after clashes within the Tamun space, its warplanes struck and killed two folks. The official Palestinian news company WAFA additionally reported a second Palestinian killed in a strike in Tamun.
The Israeli navy stated a 3rd particular person was killed in a firefight in Taluza and a number of other had been arrested in varied incidents. Hamas’ armed al-Qassam Brigades confirmed the person killed in Taluza was certainly one of its members.
WAFA in the meantime reported revenge assaults by Jewish settlers, who it stated had set hearth to a automobile in a single day and attacked a Palestinian village.
Violence within the West Bank has intensified in parallel with Israel’s 15-month genocidal warfare between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, with elevated Israeli navy raids and airstrikes and an increase in assaults by Jewish settlers.
Hundreds of Palestinians and dozens of Israelis have been killed.
Meanwhile, the Health Ministry in Gaza stated Tuesday that at the least 31 folks had been killed within the Palestinian territory up to now 24 hours, taking the general dying toll to 45,885 because the warfare entered its sixteenth month.
The ministry additionally stated in a press release that at the least 109,196 folks had been wounded within the warfare, triggered by the Palestinian group’s Oct. 7, 2023 incursion.
Source: www.dailysabah.com