The Latest | Netanyahu says Israel will return to table for cease-fire talks with Hamas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will return to the table for cease-fire talks with Hamas.

Friday’s announcement marks but every other try to achieve a deal with the militant staff that will pause Israel’s army offensive in Gaza in alternate for the discharge of Israeli hostages. Several rounds of negotiations have faltered.

Netanyahu says he has spoken with Israel’s lead negotiators and licensed Israeli delegations to sign up for talks in Qatar and Egypt over the approaching days.

With the war now grinding via a 6th month, the United States, Qatar and Egypt have spent months attempting to negotiate every other cease-fire and hostage unencumber. But the ones efforts seem to have stalled.

Hamas has up to now proposed a phased procedure during which it could unencumber the entire ultimate hostages in alternate for an finish to the struggle and whole Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, the outlet of its borders for help and reconstruction, and the discharge of loads of Palestinian prisoners, together with best militants serving existence sentences.

Netanyahu has known as the calls for delusional and vowed to resume Israel’s offensive after any hostage unencumber and stay preventing till the militant staff is destroyed.

Hamas is thought to be conserving kind of 100 hostages, in addition to the stays of about 30 folks killed within the staff’s Oct. 7 assault, which brought on the struggle, or who died in captivity.

Currently:

— Doctors visiting a Gaza hospital are shocked by means of the struggle’s toll on Palestinian kids.

— Talks resume on bringing Israeli officers to the U.S. to talk about Gaza operation, the White House says.

— Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill 16, militant rockets kill 1 Israeli as cross-border violence soars.

— U.S sanctions online media site Gaza Now and its founder for allegedly supporting Hamas.

— Israelis who fled cities close to Gaza border will have to weigh whether to return.

— Find extra AP protection at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war.

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ISRAELI STRIKE IN RAFAH KILLS AT LEAST 12 PEOPLE, INCLUDING WOMEN AND KIDS

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli airstrike killed no less than 12 folks when it slammed right into a residential construction past due Thursday within the southern Gaza town of Rafah, which is overflowing with displaced civilians, in accordance to well being officers.

Two kids and 4 ladies have been a few of the lifeless pulled from the rubble, mentioned Dr. Saleh al-Hams, the top of the nursing division on the European Hospital.

Eight of the our bodies, together with two mangled and unidentifiable corpses, have been transferred to the European Hospital. The remainder of the stays have been taken to Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital, in accordance to medical institution information. After virtually six months of struggle, a few dozen of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are simplest partly functioning.

Israel has promised to release a floor invasion of Rafah, pronouncing the town at the border with Egypt is the ultimate ultimate Hamas stronghold within the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces have persisted to bombard spaces the place they instructed civilians to take refuge — together with Rafah.

Over part of Gaza’s inhabitants has sought safe haven in Rafah, many in makeshift tent camps, United Nations shelters and crowded flats. The U.S. says it stocks Israel’s purpose of defeating Hamas however a significant attack at the town can be a mistake.

U.N. COURT: ISRAEL MUST OPEN MORE LAND CROSSINGS IN GAZA

In a legally binding order, the highest United Nations court docket says Israel will have to open extra land crossings into Gaza for meals, water, gasoline and different provides.

The International Court of Justice issued two new so-called provisional measures Thursday in a case introduced by means of South Africa accusing Israel of acts of genocide in its struggle in Gaza — fees Israel strongly denies.

The U.N. has reported that 100% of Gaza’s 2.3 million individuals are at critical ranges of meals lack of confidence.

Aid deliveries were impeded by means of Israeli army restrictions, ongoing hostilities and the breakdown of public order, in accordance to the U.N. and global help teams.

And within the West Bank, Israeli government say an attacker wounded 3 folks Thursday after opening fireplace at a number of cars on a chief course within the territory. The army says it’s nonetheless looking out for the shooter.

Tensions within the West Bank have surged for the reason that get started of the struggle in Gaza, which has killed greater than 32,000 folks and wounded 74,000, in accordance to the Gaza’s Health Ministry. The ministry doesn’t differentiate between civilians and warring parties in its tally, however says women and children make up two-thirds of the lifeless.

Some 1,200 folks have been killed in Israel and every other 250 folks kidnapped when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel, triggering the struggle in Gaza.