US, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the
President of Egypt on Tuesday as he continued to press
for a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in the
Gaza Strip. Lincoln's meeting in Cairo followed talks with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A day earlier,
Lincoln said Netanyahu had accepted what the US diplomat called
a bridging proposal aimed at narrowing the gaps between the
two sides after the talks last week paused without a
breakthrough. Us officials have not spelled out how the
current proposal differs from previous versions. Negotiations have so
far failed to deliver an agreement since us President Joe
Biden in May outlined a potential ceasefire that would pause
fighting in what is now a 10 month conflict which
would precipitate a return of Israeli captives held in Gaza
and a possible withdrawal of Israeli forces from the war
ravaged enclave. Israel accepts the bridging proposal. It's
now incumbent on Hamas to do the same. Blinken
pressed Hamas now to similarly agree to the latest terms
. Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official who spoke
to Reuters from an undisclosed location said the Islamist group
that governed Gaza didn't need new talks. It needed
an implementation mechanism. Hamdan said the new proposal was
not what was presented to us and not what we
agreed on and accused the US administration of giving in
to the Israeli pressures and not the opposite. Meanwhile
, fighting rages on in tiny crowded Gaza Israel's military
campaign has killed at least 40,000 people since October.
According to Palestinian health authorities, the health ministry said
11 more including women and Children died in Israeli strikes
Tuesday in Khan Yunis. The war in Gaza began
on October 7, 2023 when Hamas gunmen stormed into
Israeli communities killing around 1200 people and abducting about 250
hostages. According to Israeli tallies on Tuesday, Israel's
military said it had recovered the bodies of six of
its hostages from southern Gaza. The army said that
109 hostages remained in the Palestinian territory. Israel believed
around a third of them to be already dead.
Those deaths include Abraham Munder and elderly Israelis seized from
a kibbutz on October 7th. My uncle was kidnapped
from his house from his home in Kibbutz ne Rose
on that Saturday by terrorist. This happened October 7th
on October 8th. He was abandoned by his government
and on October 9th, he was abandoned by his
government and on October 10th and this continuously goes on
. Went on until the day that he died.
His nephew, Zahira Shahar Moor told Reuters that his
uncle was abandoned by an Israeli government that refused to
make the concessions that would have brought Abraham home alive
. No one will want to live in, in
, in a state that does not take care of
its citizens that betrays them and abandons them. Lincoln
has called the latest push for a deal probably the
best, possibly the last opportunity to bring hostages home
and pause the fighting.