Negotiations over a truce are making progress in Cairo, and all events have agreed on primary factors, in accordance with native stories.
Right here’s how issues stand on Monday, April 8, 2024:
Combating and humanitarian disaster
- Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary visited destroyed homes after Israeli troops withdrew from central Khan Younis after 4 months of floor assaults. “Folks informed us that they didn’t even recognise their homes, their neighbourhoods from the quantity of destruction,” Khoudary mentioned in a report launched on Sunday.
- On Sunday, about 322 humanitarian vans had been allowed to get into the Gaza Strip from each the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing and the Rafah border crossing within the south of the enclave.
- “These humanitarian convoys are loaded with water, sugar, flour and every kind of primary requirements that Palestinians very desperately want,” Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reported from Rafah.
- The Palestine Pink Crescent Society (PRCS) mentioned on Sunday that nurse Mohammed Abed has been discovered useless, two weeks after Israeli forces fired at him through the evacuation of al-Amal Hospital the place he labored.
- Israel’s Protection Minister Yoav Gallant mentioned on Sunday that Israeli troops are getting ready for future floor operations, together with within the southern metropolis of Rafah, after withdrawing from different areas of the Gaza Strip.
Diplomacy and geopolitical tensions
- Negotiations over a truce are making progress in Cairo and all events have agreed on primary factors, Egypt’s Al Qahera Information state-affiliated TV channel mentioned early on Monday, quoting a senior Egyptian supply. However specifics of the discussions should not but identified.
- Israel and Hamas despatched groups to Egypt on Sunday for brand spanking new talks on a possible ceasefire within the six-month battle, following the arrival on Saturday of US CIA Director William Burns.
- The UK’s backing for Israel is “not unconditional“, British Overseas Secretary David Cameron mentioned on Sunday.
- “Our backing shouldn’t be unconditional”, Cameron wrote in The Sunday Instances. “We count on such a proud and profitable democracy to abide by worldwide humanitarian legislation, even when challenged.”
- The UN Safety Council will meet to contemplate Palestine’s request to grow to be a UN member state on Monday. The council will maintain closed consultations within the morning earlier than a public assembly to debate Palestine’s formal software for full UN membership begins at noon New York time (16:00 GMT).
- About 600 German civil servants have written to Chancellor Olaf Scholz and senior ministers calling on the federal government to “stop arm deliveries to the Israeli authorities with quick impact”.
- The Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ) is ready to start two days of public hearings in a case introduced by Nicaragua over Germany’s assist for Israel’s battle on Gaza.
- UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres has recalled Hamas’s October 7 assaults on Israel as a “day of ache for Israel and the world”. “Nothing can justify the horror unleashed by Hamas on October 7,” he mentioned on Sunday.
- The Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs condemned Israeli authorities for the loss of life of Palestinian novelist and activist Walid Daqqa, 62, in an Israeli jail. The ministry mentioned on Sunday Israeli authorities’ “deliberate medical neglect” of Palestinian prisoners was a part of a broader “coverage of oppression and abuse” and “racist legal guidelines and laws”.
Violence within the occupied West Financial institution
- Israeli forces arrested a minimum of 23 Palestinians throughout in depth raids within the Hebron governorate of the occupied West Financial institution on Sunday evening, together with about 20 folks from the city of Dura, native media reported.
- Israeli forces additionally raided different places all through the occupied West Financial institution in a single day, together with Tulkarem the place Israeli bulldozers had been filmed driving via the streets.
