{"id":118041,"date":"2024-10-25T02:39:03","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T19:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118041"},"modified":"2024-10-25T02:39:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T19:39:03","slug":"israel-live-updates-latest-news-on-gaza-cease-fire-hamas-and-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118041","title":{"rendered":"Israel Live Updates: Latest News on Gaza Cease-Fire, Hamas and Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said on Thursday that U.S. negotiators will return to Qatar \u201cin the coming days\u201d in an effort to revive cease-fire negotiations between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr. Blinken and Qatar\u2019s prime minister and foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, signaled little reason to believe that Hamas was more willing to engage in talks since Israel killed its leader, Yahya Sinwar, last week.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe haven\u2019t yet really determined whether Hamas is prepared to engage,\u201d Mr. Blinken said at a joint news conference with Mr. Al Thani in Doha, the capital of Qatar. \u201cThe fundamental question is: Is Hamas serious?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">U.S. officials had seen Mr. Sinwar as a major obstacle to negotiations, and hoped that since his killing the armed group\u2019s surviving leaders might be more open to making a deal with Israel to end the yearlong war in Gaza and release the dozens of hostages remaining there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a group representing the families of captives in Gaza, said in a statement on Thursday that it welcomed the resumption of cease-fire talks and hoped that Mr. Sinwar\u2019s death would be the launching point for peace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe must leverage the last military achievements, particularly the elimination of Sinwar, to secure a single comprehensive deal for all hostages\u2019 return,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Blinken traveled to the Middle East this week at President Biden\u2019s request in the hope of jump-starting talks that had been frozen for months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But during their joint news conference, neither Mr. Blinken nor Mr. Al Thani offered any sign that Hamas\u2019s position had softened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Al Thani said that Qatar had \u201cre-engaged\u201d with Hamas in the week since Mr. Sinwar\u2019s death, via political representatives of the group who maintain an office in Doha, and sensed that Hamas maintains \u201cthe same position\u201d as it has since the last formal negotiating proposal it offered months ago. Israel and the United States have rejected that position as unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Al Thani added that Egypt was also playing a role in trying to revive the cease-fire talks, saying that \u201cthere are ongoing discussions between Egypt and Hamas.\u201d He did not detail the nature of those discussions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Blinken and Mr. Al Thani, who met for more than an hour before addressing reporters, said they had also spoken at length about how to end Israel\u2019s offensive in Lebanon against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in a way that would ensure Israel\u2019s security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Qatar and Egypt act as intermediaries in the talks because Hamas and Israel do not speak directly to each other, nor does the United States deal directly with Hamas. U.S. officials have said that William J. Burns, director of the C.I.A., will take part in negotiations, as he has in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In a statement, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said that David Barnea, the head of the country\u2019s foreign intelligence service, \u201cwill depart on Sunday to a meeting in Doha\u201d with Mr. Burns and Mr. Al Thani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Blinken did not say whether the United States might propose any new positions, but he said that as part of his trip to the Middle East, he had been discussing \u201cconcrete ideas\u201d for the reconstruction of Gaza after the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is a moment for every country to decide what role it\u2019s prepared to play and what contributions it could make in moving Gaza from war to peace,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But more urgent, Mr. Blinken said, was the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza, especially with winter approaching. He announced that the United States would provide an additional $135 million in humanitarian assistance \u201cfor Palestinians in Gaza, in the West Bank as well as in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Since Oct. 7, 2023, the U.S. has provided a total of $1.2 billion in humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">For months, the Biden administration has pursued <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/21\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-ceasefire-proposal-israel-hamas.html\" title=\"\">a three-phase agreement<\/a> that would begin with a six-week pause in fighting during which the remaining hostages would be released from Gaza in exchange for Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons. The second phase envisions a permanent cease-fire, and the third provides for a multiyear reconstruction plan for Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">U.S. officials <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/10\/23\/world\/israel-iran-lebanon-hezbollah?smid=url-share#blinken-raises-the-possibility-of-new-frameworks-for-a-cease-fire-deal\" title=\"\">said<\/a> this week that the Biden administration was open to considering fresh proposals, potentially including a shorter pause of less than two weeks in Israel\u2019s offensive, in exchange for the release of just some of the hostages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mr. Blinken, who previously visited Israel and Saudi Arabia this week, emphasized that ending the war in Gaza requires that \u201cwe continue to develop a plan for what follows, so that Israel can withdraw, so that Hamas cannot be constituted and so that the Palestinian people can rebuild their lives, rebuild their futures under Palestinian leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/10\/24\/world\/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-iran\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony J. 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