As talks continued to sputter, Israel’s military moved into Gaza City in the north of the Strip, prompting widespread civilian displacement.
By Leo Sands, Hazem Balousha , Loveday Morris, Joby Warrick and Heba Farouk Mahfouz, The Washington PostDestroyed buildings stand in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, July 8, 2024.
Residents and U.N. and civil defense workers described chaos as tanks moved into neighborhoods where some families had just arrived after following evacuation orders in other parts of the city a day earlier. “The population that followed evacuation orders and moved to the west have inadvertently put themselves in active fighting areas,” said Georgios Petropoulos, the head of the Gaza office for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
New evacuation orders over the past two weeks have covered 70% of the city, according to Mahmoud Bassal, a civil defense spokesman. “We had no safe streets or area to walk through,” Reem said, describing climbing walls to try to find cover from the shooting. “They were shooting anything moving,” she said.
Netanyahu’s office also said that any deal would need to prevent the smuggling of weapons from Egypt into Gaza and “maximize the number of living hostages” released by Hamas — rather than the return of all the hostages. In May, President Biden outlined a three-phase plan that includes a six-week initial stage with a cease-fire and a surge in humanitarian aid, forming the basis of the current round of talks.CIA Director William J. Burns, a key U.S. participant in past cease-fire negotiations, is returning to the Middle East this week as the Biden administration seeks to nudge the process forward, according to a Middle East government official familiar with the arrangements.
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