A delegation from Hamas arrived in Cairo on Sunday for crunch talks on a Gaza cease-fire.
A picture taken from Rafah shows smoke billowing during Israeli bombardment over Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on February 10, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group.A delegation from Hamas arrived in Cairo on Sunday for crunch talks on a Gaza cease-fire, billed as a potential final hurdle towards an agreement that would halt the fighting for six weeks.
One source briefed on the talks had said Israel could stay away from Cairo unless Hamas first presented a full list of hostages who are still alive, a demand that a Palestinian source said Hamas had so far rejected as premature.Still, a U.S. official told reporters: "The path to a cease-fire right now literally at this hour is straightforward. And there's a deal on the table. There's a framework deal.
But a deal would stop short of fulfilling the main Hamas demand for a permanent end to the war, while also leaving unresolved the fate of more than half of the more than 100 remaining hostages - including Israeli men of fighting age not covered by a deal to free women, children, elderly and wounded. In the latest reported attack on aid, Gaza authorities said at least eight people were killed on Sunday when a truck carrying food aid from a Kuwaiti charity was hit by an air strike. There was no immediate Israeli comment.
At a morgue outside a Rafah hospital, women wept and wailed beside rows of bodies of the Abu Anza family, 14 of whom were killed in an Israeli airstrike overnight. Relatives opened a black plastic body bag to kiss the face of a dead schoolgirl in a torn sweatshirt and pink unicorn pajamas.
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