The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Monday responded to the proposed truce in the war with Israel in Gaza. A tripartite meeting between Egypt, Qatar and Hamas will be held in Cairo. At the same time, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, where he will promote the truce. Follow the situation in the Middle East live.
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A Hamas delegation will arrive in Egypt this Monday to deliver its response to Israel’s recent counter-proposal for a cease-fire in the fighting in the Gaza Strip and the release of hostages, a senior official of the Palestinian Islamist movement told AFP.
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6am: Antony Blinken arrives in Saudi Arabia
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the first stop on a Middle East tour designed to promote a truce between Israel and Hamas and more humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
Antony Blinken, who will then travel to Jordan and Israel, will meet with several of his Gulf and European counterparts in Riyadh, a State Department official said.
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3:47am: New Gaza support camp at US Yale University
Demonstrations of support for Gaza have intensified in recent days at American universities. At Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut (Northeast), protesters set up a new camp on Sunday, according to the school’s student newspaper. A few days earlier, police dismantled another, arresting dozens of people at the site for trespassing.
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Saudi Arabia is hosting a special meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Sunday. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Palestinian representatives and senior diplomats involved in efforts to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas are on the list of participants. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on the United States to prevent a ground invasion of Rafah.
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A dock under construction in Gaza should allow the transport of more humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory bombed and besieged by Israel within “two to three weeks”, the White House said.
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it targeted three military positions in northern Israel “in response to enemy attacks” on “civilian homes” in southern Lebanon that killed three and wounded around 10 on Saturday.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel and Jordan on Wednesday, the US State Department announced after a telephone exchange between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the hostages.
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French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné called in Beirut for an end to the escalation between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel in order to avoid what he called a “worst case scenario.”
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The Israeli army said on Sunday that the volume of humanitarian aid delivered to the Gaza Strip would increase in the coming days.
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The Hamas Health Ministry on Sunday announced a new death toll of 34,454 in the Gaza Strip since the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement began on October 7.
Namely: the number of dead in Gaza is given by the Ministry of Health led by Hamas
The ministry collects information provided by hospitals in the enclave and the Palestinian Red Crescent. To learn more, click here.
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