Israel accepts US Gaza ceasefire plan - while Hamas says it's 'under discussion'

Israel has accepted a US-proposed program for a ceasefire successful Gaza, according to the White House, portion Hamas says the woody is inactive "under discussion".

Israeli quality outlets reported earlier connected Thursday that Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted the program enactment guardant by Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and told the families of hostages inactive successful Gaza.

It reportedly calls for a 60-day intermission successful fighting, and the merchandise of 9 surviving hostages and fractional of the known hostages who person died, implicit the people of a week.

Israel and Hamas would past proceed talks to bring the remaining hostages home, but Israel would clasp the close to resume subject enactment successful Gaza if talks were to interruption down.

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt aboriginal confirmed Israel "backed and supported" Mr Witkoff's proposal, but said talks were ongoing.

Sami Abu Zuhri, a elder authoritative for Hamas, told Reuters that the connection failed to conscionable their demands - to extremity the war, for Israeli troops to retreat from Gaza, and to let assistance into the territory.

Another elder official, Basim Naim, said to the quality agency, however, that the connection was "under discussion".

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Gaza infirmary told evacuate - doctor

It comes arsenic a doc said the Israeli service wanted to evacuate al Awda Hospital - 1 of the past functioning aesculapian centres successful bluish Gaza.

Dr Rami al Ashrafi told the Associated Press that the infirmary had been encircled by Israeli troops and had travel nether occurrence successful caller days.

He said determination were 82 unit members, including doctors, and 7 patients near astatine the hospital, aft dozens were already evacuated connected Tuesday.

Israeli authorities issued evacuation orders past week for ample parts of bluish Gaza up of offensives against Hamas, though the service did not bid the infirmary itself to evacuate.

Third assistance tract opened

It besides comes arsenic the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation expanded its assistance organisation to a 3rd site, arsenic aggregate Palestinians reported chaos astatine the hubs.

Witnesses told the Associated Press they saw a free-for-all of radical grabbing aid, and claimed Israeli troops opened occurrence to power crowds, astatine each 3 hubs.

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Meanwhile, the names of thousands of children killed successful Gaza were work retired astatine a vigil held successful Westminster - with actors including Steve Coogan and Juliet Stevenson taking part.

Coogan told Sky News' lead satellite quality presenter Yalda Hakim helium was successful London "to protestation astir the, basically, enforced starvation of thousands of women and children successful Gaza by the weaponisation of the blockade connected assistance to those people".

More than 54,000 Palestinians person died during Israel's warfare successful Gaza, which was launched aft much than 1,200 Israelis were killed and a further 250 were taken hostage successful a Hamas onslaught successful October 2023.

The fig comes from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, which does not separate betwixt civilians and members of Palestinian equipped groups.

However, the ministry says the fig includes much than 12,000 dormant children.