Israel-Hamas War: The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says 112 people have been killed in the strip in the past 24 hours. With this, the number of Palestinians killed in the ongoing war has increased to 28,775. The Times of Israel has reported that these figures cannot be independently verified. These are the figures of both civilians and Hamas killed in Gaza.
Israel states that this figure also includes deaths as a result of terrorist groups’ own rocket misfires. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says that on October 7, it has killed about 11 thousand terrorists in Gaza, apart from one terrorist inside Israel.
Mossad chief is going to Cairo
David Barnia, head of Israel’s spy agency Mossad, will visit Cairo this week to discuss the release of hostages from Hamas. America, Qatar and Egypt are also involved in this conversation. Barnia will meet senior leaders of Qatar and Egypt in Cairo for a proposed ceasefire, which would also allow the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
There was doubt over the peace talks and there were reports that Egypt would withdraw from the talks after Israeli troops entered the Rafah border, but Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has denied such speculations. US President Joe Biden has said that a proposal for a six-week ceasefire and the release of hostages has been made and is being discussed.
Intelligence reports are that there have been differences of opinion among the top leaders of Hamas regarding the ceasefire. Leaders such as Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashael want a temporary ceasefire, while others, including Yahya Simwar and Mohammed Deif, the alleged masterminds of the October 7 massacre in Gaza, want a permanent ceasefire. On the other hand, Israel has also agreed to release the Palestinian prisoners lodged in its jails.
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