ALAMEIN, Egypt: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pushed for progress towards a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal as he visited Egypt on Tuesday (Aug 20), but major areas of dispute are still to be resolved in talks planned for later this week.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken , left, meets with Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty in El-Alamein, Egypt, Tuesday, Aug 20, 2024. ALAMEIN, Egypt: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pushed for progress towards a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal as he visited Egypt on Tuesday , but major areas of dispute are still to be resolved in talks planned for later this week.
The war in Gaza began on Oct 7, 2023, when Hamas gunmen stormed into Israeli communities, killing around 1,200 people and abducting about 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.. According to Israeli authorities, 109 hostages now remain in the Palestinian territory, of whom around a third are believed to be dead.
Officials from the US, Hamas, Israel, Egypt or Qatar have not spelled out what is in the proposal or how it differs from previous versions."There are questions of implementation and making sure that it's clearly understood what each side will do to carry out its commitments," Blinken said on Monday. Months of on-off talks have circled the same issues, with Israel saying the war can only end with the destruction of Hamas as a military and political force and Hamas saying it will only accept a permanent, not temporary, ceasefire.
Members of civil defence work to recover bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, Aug 20, 2024.
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