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The Israel-Hamas war that has devastated the Gaza Strip entered its seventh month on Sunday, with talks towards a truce and hostage release deal expected to resume in Cairo.
US President Joe Biden in a terse phone call with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday demanded vastly greater aid deliveries into the territory now threatened by famine.Biden also urged an “immediate ceasefire” and hinted at making US support for Israel conditional on curtailing the killing of civilians and improving humanitarian conditions.“We continue to stand by Israel’s right to defeat the threat from Hamas terrorists and defend their security,” Sunak said.
“Isn’t the bombing, death and destruction enough? There are bodies still under the rubble. We can smell the stench.”The Gaza war broke out on October 7 with an unprecedented attack from Gaza by Hamas militants that resulted in the deaths of 1,170 people, mostly civilians, Israeli figures show. Vast areas of Gaza have been turned into a rubble-strewn wasteland and its people have been trapped in a dire humanitarian crisis amid an Israeli siege.
After fierce battles there, Al-Shifa is “now an empty shell with human graves”, said World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.Months of stop-start ceasefire talks have made no headway since a week-long truce in November saw some hostages exchanged for Palestinian prisoners detained by Israel.
Biden wrote to Egypt and Qatar’s leader ahead of the talks urging them to secure commitments from Hamas to “agree to and abide by a deal”, a senior administration official told AFP.
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