... be part of it. What is the position of the mediators? Biden's speech and the Security Council resolution referred to a complete Israeli withdrawal. Egyptian officials and Hamas say the demands regarding the corridors were not included in subsequent versions of the U.S.-backed proposal, including one that ...
The challenges around the so-called bridging proposal appear to undermine the optimism for an imminent agreement that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken carried into his latest Mideast visit this week.
... hostage release in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Thursday that Israel would send a delegation for further talks as U.S., Egyptian and Qatari mediators attempt to seal an agreement. Obstacles remain, however as Hamas insists that talks continue until a permanent cease-fire is reached ...
... ordered civilians to evacuate. Israeli ground troops and tanks have been operating in eastern Rafah, in central parts of the city, and along the Gaza-Egypt border. The U.S. and other allies of Israel have warned against a full-fledged offensive in Rafah, with the Biden administration saying this ...
UPDATE: Israel examining Gaza cease-fire proposal, but framework differs from its offer CAIRO (AP) — The Hamas militant group says it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal to halt seven-month war with Israel. It issued a statement Monday saying its supreme leader, Ismail Haniyeh, had delivered the ...
... it is feared would be a devastating assault on Rafah. WATCH: Israeli and Palestinian singers bring their hope for peace and justice to U.S. Egypt has been privately assuring Hamas that the deal will mean a total end to the war. But the Egyptian official said Hamas says the ...
... well as the regional peace and security.” El-Sissi’s comments came in a phone call with Prime Minister Mark Rutte of The Netherlands, the Egyptian leader’s office said. Egypt has also said an attack on Rafah would violate the decades-old peace deal between Egypt and Israel. Illustrating ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday wrote to the leaders of Egypt and Qatar, calling on them to press Hamas for a hostage deal with Israel, according to a senior administration official, one day after Biden called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to redouble efforts to reach a ...
... Egypt — and the commission concedes that “human rights challenges in Egypt remain significant." Still, the EU's executive branch maintains that “the political leadership in Egypt has taken several steps putting greater emphasis on the importance of the respect for human rights” in recent years.Earlier this month, Egypt floated ...
In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the first stop on his sixth urgent Mideast mission since the war began, Blinken said Wednesday that the “gaps are narrowing” in indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas over another cease-fire and hostage release that the U.S., Egypt and Qatar have spent weeks trying ...
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