U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken postponed trip to Middle East, but expects talks to proceed in Qatar Thursday
A Palestinian boy wearing the headband of Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas , looks out of a damaged window with another child during an Israel i raid, in Tubas, in the Israel i-occupied West Bank, August 14, 2024.The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Wednesday it would not take part in a new round of Gaza ceasefire talks slated for Thursday in Qatar , dimming hopes for a negotiated truce that Iranian sources say could hold back an Iranian attack on Israel .
The Israeli government said it would send a delegation to Thursday’s talks, but Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls Gaza, requested a workable plan to implement a proposal it has already accepted rather than more talks. Israel said it was responding to Hamas rocket fire towards Tel Aviv on Tuesday and had struck rocket launching pads and militants among 40 military targets over 24 hours, including in central Gaza, Khan Younis, and western Rafah in the south.
Hamas wants an agreement to end the war and a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza as a basic pre-condition for releasing hostages, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will only agree to a pause in fighting to allow as many hostages to return as possible. He has repeatedly said the war can only end when Hamas is eradicated.
In an attempt to deter a separate escalation between Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel, after the latter killed a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut’s southern suburbs last month, Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, landed in Beirut on Wednesday.
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