By Nidal al-Mughrabi
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli army strikes killed no less than 36 Palestinians throughout the Gaza Strip on Sunday, most of them within the north of the enclave, Palestinian well being officers mentioned, as efforts to safe a ceasefire within the greater than year-long conflict resumed in Qatar.
The administrators of the CIA and Israel’s Mossad intelligence company will meet with Qatar’s prime minister on Sunday in Doha, an official briefed on the talks advised Reuters.
The negotiations will search a short-term ceasefire and the discharge of some hostages being held by Hamas in trade for Israel’s launch of Palestinian prisoners, the official mentioned.
The talks purpose to get Israel and Hamas to comply with a halt in combating for lower than a month within the hope it could result in a extra everlasting ceasefire.
There was no instant remark from Hamas.
The U.S., Qatar and Egypt have been main negotiations to convey an finish to the conflict, which broke out after Hamas fighters stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7 final 12 months, killing 1,200 and taking greater than 250 hostages, by Israeli tallies.
The loss of life toll from Israel’s retaliatory marketing campaign in Gaza is approaching 43,000, with the densely populated enclave in ruins.
It was not clear if Egyptian officers had been additionally becoming a member of the talks on Sunday.
At the very least 34 of these killed on Sunday had been in northern Gaza, the place Israeli troops have returned to root out Hamas fighters who it says have regrouped there.
Twenty folks had been killed following an airstrike on homes in Jabalia, the most important of the Gaza Strip’s eight historic refugee camps, which has been the main focus of an Israeli army offensive for greater than three weeks, medics and the Palestinian official information company WAFA mentioned.
Whereas an Israeli air strike on a college sheltering displaced Palestinian households in Shati camp in Gaza Metropolis, killed 4 folks and wounded 20 others, many in important situation, medics mentioned.
On Sunday, Israel’s army mentioned it had “eliminated over 40 terrorists” within the Jabalia space prior to now 24 hours, in addition to dismantling infrastructure and finding “large quantities of military equipment”.
As well as, Israel mentioned its forces had eradicated a “terrorist cell” throughout a close-quarter encounter in central Gaza.
RISING DEATH TOLL
In the meantime, the loss of life toll from an Israeli airstrike late on Saturday on a residential district within the close by city of Beit Lahiya rose to 40, the official Palestinian information company WAFA mentioned.
The Israeli army mentioned it had carried out “a precise strike using precise munitions on Hamas terrorists within a structure in the area of Beit Lahiya in the Gaza Strip. A number of terrorists have been hit in the strike.”
It added that the excessive variety of casualties talked about within the media report didn’t align with the kind of munitions used within the precision assault.
Israeli army strikes on the cities of Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza have to date killed round 800 folks throughout a three-week offensive, the Gaza well being ministry mentioned.
Palestinian well being officers mentioned the continued Israeli aerial and floor offensive has crippled the healthcare system in northern Gaza and was blocking medical groups from reaching bombed websites.
The Civil Emergency Service introduced two days in the past that their operations had been halted after Israel detained and wounded a number of of their personnel and bombed their solely fireplace truck.