International mediators have held a new round of talks aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war and securing the release of scores of hostages, with a potential deal seen as the best hope of heading off an even larger regional conflict.
By Abby Sewell and Tia Goldenberg, Associated PressA Palestinian girl cries after taking the last look at the bodies of Palestinians Ahmed Sheikh Khalil, 20 and Wael Misha, 18, both killed by an airstrike overnight during an army operation in the occupied West Bank, during their funeral in the refugee Camp of Balata, in Nablus, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024.
A cease-fire in Gaza would likely calm regional tensions. Diplomats hope it would persuade Iran and Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group to hold off on retaliating for the killings of a top Hezbollah commander in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut and of Hamas’ top political leader in a Tehran explosion. A Palestinian official who closely follows the negotiations said Hamas would not take part in Thursday’s talks but that its senior officials, who reside in Qatar, were ready to discuss any proposals from the mediators, as they have in past rounds.
More recently, Hamas has objected to what it says are new Israeli demands to maintain a presence along the Gaza-Egypt border and a road dividing northern and southern Gaza. Israel denies these are new demands, saying it needs a presence along the border to prevent weapons smuggling and that it must search Palestinians returning to northern Gaza to ensure they are not armed.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed 40,005 Palestinians, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday, without saying how many were militants. The offensive has left a swath of destruction across the territory and driven the vast majority of Gaza’s 2.3 million people from their homes, often multiple times.
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