Truce talks are scheduled to resume in Cairo on Sunday; Most of the victims of the overnight attacks were women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
Talks aimed at brokering a truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip will resume on Sunday in Cairo, Egyptian media outlet Al-Qahera reported, days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave light for further negotiations.
“An Egyptian security source told Al-Qahera that negotiations on a truce between Israel and Hamas will resume in Cairo, the Egyptian capital,” an Egyptian anchor with close ties to the country’s intelligence services said on Saturday.
Egypt, Qatar, and the United States have mediated previous rounds of negotiations, but a workable agreement remains elusive.
Mediators had hoped to achieve a ceasefire before the start of Ramadan, but progress has stalled and the Muslim holy month is more than halfway through.
On Friday, Netanyahu approved new ceasefire talks in Doha and Cairo.
Reports of new talks in Cairo come as demonstrators in Israel’s largest city blocked a major highway on Saturday following protests calling for the release of hostages held in Gaza and criticizing the government’s handling of the war.
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British Foreign Secretary David Cameron is under pressure to publish the legal recommendation he obtained on Israel’s movements in Gaza, following claims that British government lawyers have violated humanitarian law.
As the Observer revealed, the chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Alicia Kearns, said she was convinced that the government had concluded that Israel had failed to demonstrate its commitment to foreign humanitarian law, but had refused to verify it publicly.
Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy suggested that Cameron and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reveal the recommendation they had been given.
Lammy said:
Last week, I asked the government whether the Foreign Secretary had obtained a legal opinion indicating that there was a clear threat that legal pieces would be used through the UK to perpetrate or facilitate a serious breach of foreign humanitarian law.
I didn’t get a transparent answer. This raises serious questions about whether the government is following its own law.
David Cameron and Rishi Sunak will now have to be transparent and publish the legal advice they have received.
The British government is on the side of history. His failure to call for an early ceasefire and his refusal to stop arms sales to Israel will leave future generations looking back in horror.
The Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister owe it to the public and to the upper echelons who lately consider it fair whether they have obtained any information that Israel has violated foreign humanitarian law.
If the reports are to be believed, and if the British government continued to supply arms and intelligence to Israel despite knowing that it violated foreign humanitarian law, then the position of either country would be untenable.
Israeli raids were reported in the city of Nablus and the Balata refugee camp, as well as in several locations around the city of Jenin, where armed clashes took place, the resources said.
The troops also attacked several villages in and around the cities of Qalqilya, Bethlehem and Hebron.
Israeli forces said among those arrested was a Palestinian accused of shooting and wounding three Israelis on Thursday.
The suspect reportedly approached al-Auja, north of Jericho.