Israel recovers the assault of Gaza after Trump asked for a bomb stop
Israel slowed down his Gaza offensive on Saturday after US President Donald Trump demanded that he stop bombing in response to a Hamas statement that he was ready to release hostages in his plan to end the two -year war.
Despite a relatively quieter start to the day compared to the past few weeks, at least 21 people have been killed in bombing and air strikes in the devastated Palestinian enclave since Trump asked Israel to stop his attacks late Friday.
Eleven people died in sporadic incidents, while 10 people, including children, were killed and several others injured in an Israeli strike in a house in the Tuffah district in Gaza City, physicians said. The attack damaged several other nearby buildings.
Earlier, the Gaza Ministry of Health declared in a morning update that Israeli strikes had killed at least 66 Palestinians across the enclave in the past 24 hours.
Trump said on Saturday that he appreciated that Israel had “temporarily stopped the attack on the attack”, and he urged Hamas, the Palestinian militant group which controls Gaza, to move quickly on its plan “or all bets will be deactivated”.
“I will not tolerate delay, what many think of happening, or any result where Gaza represents a threat again. Let’s do this, quickly. Everyone will be treated fairly!” Trump said about his social platform for truth.
Hamas had made a welcoming response from Trump on Friday by saying that it had accepted certain key parts of its 20 -point peace proposal, in particular by finishing the war, the withdrawal of Israel and the liberation of Israeli hostages and Palestinian captives.
Another possible boost to the hopes of peace came with a favorable declaration of the Palestinian Islamic jihad group supported by Iran, which is smaller than Hamas but considered harder.
The Palestinian Islamic jihad, which also holds Israeli hostages, approved Hamas’ response on Saturday – a decision that could help open the way to the liberation of the Israelis still held by the two groups.
The Palestinians hope that the agreement will go through
Asked about the discussions on the implementation of the American plan, a Hamas official told Reuters that “things had not yet organized”.
The position of Hamas, and its support by Islamic jihad, raised the minds of many Palestinians, who had looked at a cease-fire effort after another failure while the Israeli strikes hit the band in the past two years, creating a humanitarian crisis and moving millions.
“The Palestinian people want any solution to the sort of the hole in which we find ourselves,” Mohammed al-Jarousha, 45, said at CBC News, independent videographer Mohamed El Saif on Saturday in the Gaza Central Strip. “Everyone is moved, death does not stop.”
A United Nations commission of inquiry and many human rights experts have concluded that Israel had committed a genocide in Gaza. The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denies him, arguing that he acted in self-defense.
“We hope it is for real … and we hope the best. The streets are satisfied with this news,” said Abu Mahmoud Abu Sarar, 54, at CBC News.
“We urge all the parts not to go back. Each day delay lives in Gaza. It is not only the lost time, the lives are also wasted,” said Tamer al-Burai, a businessman from Gaza City displaced by family members in the Gaza Central Strip.
US President Donald Trump urged Israel to stop bombing Gaza after Hamas said on Friday that he would accept certain aspects of Trump’s peace plan to end the war. Kamran Bokhari, senior director of the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington, DC, discusses the latest developments.
“That the suffering raises the inhabitants of Gaza, the people of Gaza is among the oppressed of the earth, and any radius of hope for the oppressed people is a victory,” said Sharif al-Fakhouri, who lives in the city of Hebron in Western West West Cisjordan.
In the midst of optimism, several problems remain unresolved, as if Hamas will accept to disarm – one of the main requests of Israel.
Some Palestinians have expressed the fear that Netanyahu, who directs the most extreme right government in Israel, ultimately retired from any plan to end the war.
“What is important is that Netanyahu does not sabotage this, because now that Hamas agrees, Netanyahu will disagree, as it usually does,” said Jamal Shihada, a resident of Jerusalem.
Global support to end war
Hamas’ response to the plan attracted a choir of optimistic statements from the world leaders, which has urged the end of the deadliest conflict involving Israel since its creation in 1948 and called for the liberation of Israelis still held in the enclave.
Netanyahu’s office said ISRAEL was preparing for the “immediate implementation” of the first stage of Trump’s Gaza plan for the liberation of Israeli hostages after Hamas’ response.
Shortly after, the Israeli media reported that the country’s political level had asked soldiers to reduce offensive activity in Gaza.
Trump’s plan and Hamas’ reaction have won support worldwide, from Australia and India to Canada and European capitals.
“The end of this terrible war is at hand,” said Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof.
A declaration by Hamas said that the militant group agreed to release all Israeli, living or dead hostages, under the terms of the Gaza proposal from US President Donald Trump and has been preparing to immediately seize the mediatized negotiations to discuss details.
Trump, who presented himself as the only person capable of reaching peace in Gaza, has invested important political capital in efforts to end the war that left us Ally Israel more and more isolated on the world scene.
At the national level, the Prime Minister is taken between growing pressures to end the war – hostage families and an audience tiring of war – and requests from members of his coalition which insist that there must not be a break in the Israel campaign in Gaza.
Israel began to attack Gaza after October 7, 2023, an attack led by Hamas against southern Israel during which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 hostage, according to Israeli accounts. Israel says that 48 hostages remain, 20 of which are alive.
The Israel campaign killed more than 67,000 people in Gaza, most civilians, according to the Gaza health authorities, led to a humanitarian crisis and led to the destruction of a large part of the enclave.
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