Hamas official says Gaza mediators intensifying ceasefire efforts

A senior HAMAS official, BBC, said the efforts of intermediaries to make a new ceasefire and hostage release agreement in Gaza, but negotiations with Israel stopped.

Comments, US President Donald Trump, Israel and Iran’s 12 -day war since the end of the 12 -day war since “great progress” has been made, and his ambassador Steve Witkoff’un Israel and Hamas thought that “very close”, he said.

The Ministry of Health, operated by Hamas, said that on Wednesday, Israel’s attacks in Gaza killed at least 45 Palestinians, including those looking for help on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced on Tuesday that seven soldiers were killed in a bomb attack allegedly by Hamas.

“I think there is a great progress in Gaza, I think because of this attack,” President Trump referred to the journalists in Brussels on Wednesday, and the US air strikes against the Iranian nuclear facilities in the middle of the clashes between Israel and Iran.

“I think we will have very good news. I was talking to Steve Witkoff … [and] He told me that Gaza was very close, “he added.

Shortly after Trump’s speech, his senior HAMAS official said that the mediators had “intense contacts aiming to reach the cease -fire agreement”.

However, the group “has not received a new offer so far,” he added.

A Israeli official said that there was no progress in the negotiations with the Haaretz newspaper and that great disagreements were not solved.

The US, Qatar and Egypt’s efforts to make an agreement at the end of May, Witkoff Hamas, Israel supported by Israel for a 60 -day cease -fire “completely unacceptable” change looking for changes, and half of the living hostages and half of the dead will be published, he said.

Israel continued its military attack in Gaza on March 18, and a two -month ceasefire collapsed. He said he wanted to put pressure on Hamas to release his hostages. Fifty is still in Gaza, at least 20 of them are alive.

Israel also brought a total blockade to the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza at the beginning of March, which partially alleviated that half a million people face hunger after 11 weeks following the pressure from the US allies and warnings from global experts.

At the same time, Israel and the US supported the establishment of a new aid distribution mechanism conducted by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which aims to skip the UN as a main aid supplier to Palestinians. They said that the GHF system would prevent the stolen of help by HAMAS, whom the group refused.

Using US private security contractors, GHF said that since it started its operations on May 26th, it has distributed more than 44 million meals and has been distributed more than 2.4 million on three sites on Wednesday.

However, the UN and other aid groups refused to cooperate with GHF and accused him of collaborating with Israel’s objectives and violating basic human principles.

They also gave alarm in their daily reports that they were killed near the sites of the group in the Israeli military zones.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, at least 549 people were killed and 4,000 injured since GHF started to distribute aid on May 26th.

On Wednesday morning, the Civil Defense Agency spokesman, operated by Hamas, said that the Israeli forces opened fire on the crowds waiting near one of the GHF’s ​​Food Distribution Center in Middle Gaza.

The authority added that three people were killed near a GHF field in Southern Rafah.

However, the Israeli army said that “he is not aware of any incidents in these areas”, GHF said that the reports of such events near his sites were wrong.

In the city of Gaza, a funeral ceremony was held for some of the 33 people who said that the Ministry of Health had been killed while waiting for help the previous day.

“I say millions of times and repeat to the Reuters news agency.” He said. “These are not the aid points, but these are the points of death.”

UNICEF spokesman James Elder, who has just visited Gaza, said: “As long as a population is rejected, people are offered this deadly election and unfortunately cannot develop because it is in a war zone.”

The civil defense spokesman also said that six people, including a child, were killed in a house strike in a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of Gaza on Wednesday.

The authority said five of the houses in the town of Deir al-Balah were killed.

When Israel launched an air campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, more than 860 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza during the Israeli-Iranian conflict. In response to Iran, missiles launched the dams towards Israel.

People in Gaza were divided into their assessment of what the ceasefire means for the soil.

Some have seen Iran’s weakening of Iran, a key regional supporter of Hamas, as a potentially positive step to obtain a ceasefire in Gaza, because it may force the group demands to alleviate their demands.

However, others were afraid that the end of the conflict would allow Israel’s military focus to re -direct Gaza and intensify air and ground operations.

Nader Ramadan, a man in Khan Younis, told the BBC that he felt like “everything worsened” during the conflict.

” [Israeli] The bombing concentrated, the damage increased and the attack in certain areas expanded… We just felt the destruction. ”

Adel Abu Reda said the most difficult thing was a lack of helping help. Authorized, the items were looted and sold for inflated prices and civilians came to the fire of Israel while trying to buy food, he said.

“What should we do?” he asked. “We always feel shooting and killing.”

In Israel, the army announced that seven of his soldiers were killed in a war in Southern Gaza on Tuesday – since the ceasefire collapsed.

Spokesman Brig-Gen Effie Defrin said that an explosive device is connected to an armored vehicle in the Khan Younis area and the explosion caused the vehicle to flame. Authorized, helicopters and rescue forces made various attempts to save them.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was “a difficult day for the people of Israel”.

The deaths renewed the pressure of Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire, the leader of the Ultra Orthodox Jewish party, Israel’s end of the war and says that all the hostages should bring home.

“I don’t understand what and for what purpose we’re fighting … When the soldiers are always killed?” Moshe Gafni of the United Torah Judaism told the Israeli Parliament.

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, and about 1,200 people were killed and 251 people were hostage.

According to the Ministry of Health of the region, at least 56,157 people have been killed in Gaza since then.

Alice Cuddy’s additional reports in Jerusalem