Efforts to secure a deal on a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza are ongoing, Israel's intelligence agency Mossad says, despite dimming hopes for a truce during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Israel and Hamas have traded blame over the apparent deadlock in talks in the run-up to Ramadan.Negotiations continue, but a Hamas source said the group's delegation was "unlikely" to make another visit to Cairo over the weekend for talks.
Israel and Hamas, the militant Islamist group that rules the Palestinian enclave, have traded blame over the apparent deadlock in talks in the run-up to Ramadan, which begins on or around March 10. A Palestinian woman and a child inspect the site of an Israeli air strike on a building in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.In a statement on Saturday marking Ramadan, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh vowed the Palestinians would continue to fight Israel "until they regain freedom and independence".
"The pain and anger are still running through my blood," said Agam Goldstein, a teenager freed from Gaza with her mother and two brothers in November, addressing the hostage rally. A small group of Israelis is using a range of tactics to delay or block the flow of aid into Gaza, saying all supplies should be blocked until the remaining hostages are released."People were startled, running down the stairs, some fell, it was chaos. People left their belongings and money," said Mohammad Al-Nabrees, adding that among those who tripped down the stairs during the panicked evacuation was a friend's pregnant wife.
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