No aid is reaching Gaza, UN aid agency says; Israel will send a delegation to Egypt to continue ceasefire negotiations, Netanyahu’s office says
A Palestinian man inspects the destruction outside the house of the Derbi family which was struck by Israel i bomb in Rafah 's Tal al-Sultan district.The Israel i military took control of the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, the main corridor for humanitarian aid going into Gaza , as Israel ’s invasion of Rafah , the last Gaza n city beyond its control, gathered pace on Tuesday.
“Erez will simply not be enough,” said James Elder, a spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund. “If Rafah gate closes for an extended period, it’s hard to see how famine in Gaza can be averted.” The Israeli military's seizure of the Rafah border crossing in the Gaza Strip comes as Israeli authorities said it was moving forward with an offensive in the southern city even as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remain on a knife’s edge. The move comes after hours of whiplash in the Israel-Hamas war, with the militant group on Monday saying it accepted an Egyptian-Qatari mediated cease-fire proposal.
The Oct. 7 assault saw Hamas kill more than 1,100 Israelis and foreigners, and take more than 200 others back to Gaza as prisoners. Israel believes that many of the more than 100 hostages Hamas is still holding have since died in captivity. Mr. Netanyahu’s office has dismissed the terms Hamas agreed to as “a proposal” that was far from meeting Israel’s demands. Israel nonetheless sent a team to Cairo on Tuesday to continue negotiations, and delegates from Qatar and Hamas were also in the city, as was the United States’ CIA director, William Burns.
The Israeli army on May 6 ordered tens of thousands of people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah to begin evacuating, signaling that a long-promised ground invasion could be imminent. The announcement complicated last-ditch efforts by international mediators, including the director of the CIA, to broker a cease-fire.Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, however, seemed to indicate that the Rafah operation could be halted if Hamas began releasing hostages.
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