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Reuters said that Syria’s Islamic -led government, internal security forces began to be deployed in Sweida on Saturday, because all parties called to respect the ceasefire after bloodshed in the dominant Draze region, which caused hundreds of deaths.

In a statement, the Syrian Presidency announced an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire and urged all parties to commit to commitment and end hostility in almost all areas.

The country’s interior spokesman said that on Saturday, Sweida, south of Syria, began to deploy internal security forces.

US ambassador Tom Barracks On Friday, Syria and Israel agreed to make a ceasefire. Israel intervened in the conflict at the beginning of this week and hit the government forces and the Ministry of Defense Sam As Draze declares support for the minority.

Barrack, the US Ambassador to Türkiye and Washington’s Syrian ambassador, said that Israel and Syria agreed for the ceasefire supported by Türkiye, Jordan and neighbors.

DRUZE Religious Leader Sheikh Yousef Jarbou In a video broadcast by the state media on Wednesday, Syria’s Drze’s Sweida in Sweida said that a ceasefire agreement will immediately enter into force, but the clashes continued to explode in the following days.

On Tuesday night, an earlier ceasefire collapsed after just a few hours.

On Saturday, the Gaza Civil Defense Agency said that Israeli attacks killed 26 people and that more than 100 injured near the two aid centers in the south of Palestinian territory.

Agency spokesman Mahmud Basal He said he was killed near a site in the southwest of AFP. Khan Younis and four in the northwest of another center Rafaah, To blame the “Israeli armed fire” for both.

A witness, AL-TINA ZONE Khan Younis with five relatives to try to buy food when the “Israeli soldiers” began to shoot.

Abdul Aziz Abed, 37 told AFP:

My relatives and I couldn’t get anything.

I go there every day and the only thing we get is instead of eating bullets and exhaustion.

The Israeli army said that when the AFP contacted, he was “looking” in the allegations.

Media restrictions in Gaza and difficulties in accessing many areas cannot independently confirm the wages and details provided by the Agency and other parties.

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On Saturday, Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency said that Israeli attacks killed 26 Palestinians and were wounded more than 100 near the two aid centers in the south of Palestinian territory.

Agency spokesman Mahmud Basal, Agency France-Presse (AFP) 22 of them near Khan Younis near an area and near a center in the northwest of Rafah, and for both of them accused the “Israeli Armed Fire”.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday, 10 more hostages from Gaza will be released in a short time without additional details.

Trump commented during a dinner with MPs. White House, praise for the efforts of his private ambassador Steve Witkoff. Israel and Hamas negotiators have been participating in the last round of the latest cease -fire talks in Doha since July 6 and discussing a US -supported offer for a 60 -day ceasefire.

Tr We have taken back most of the hostages. We will come after 10 more hostages and we hope to finish it quickly, ”Trump said.

Trump has been predicting the cease -fire and hostage secretion agreement for weeks, but the agreement has been proven to be difficult.

The ceasefire proposal wants 10 hostages held in Gaza to be returned with the bodies of 18 people spreading more than 60 days. In contrast, Israel would release a number of Palestinians detained.

On Friday, the Palestinian militant group Hamas accused Israel of preventing an agreement in negotiations to release a temporary ceasefire and hostages in Gaza.

Negotiators on both sides have been holding indirect negotiations in Qatar since July 6, and 10 prisoners have been released in the conflict to reach an agreement on a 60 -day ceasefire.

In other developments:

• Gaza Civil Defense Agency warned that Israeli fire killed 10 aid seekers on Friday and the flow of patients with acute malnutrition of a hospital manager in the south. Civil Defense Spokesman Mahmud Bassal said that the Israeli fire killed nine people near the US aid center in the al-Shakousush region in the northwest of the Rafah city in Southern Gaza ”on Friday.

• Two of the most senior Christian leaders in Jerusalem made a rare visit to Gaza, which was disintegrated from the war, provoked international condemnation one day after the Israeli fire killed the Palestinian territory three in the single Catholic church. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Roman Catholic Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and the Greek Orthodox equivalent Theophilos III welcomed local Christians and toured the Holy Family Church in Gaza.

• At least 718 people were killed in Sweida, Syria, a war monitor said on Saturday for an updated fee for about one week violence at the heart of the minority. The Syrian Human Rights Observatory counted 146 DRUZE fighters and 245 civilians since 165 Sunday (Defense and Interior Ministries personnel ”.

• The armed tribes supported by the Syrian -led government -led government, one day after the army withdrawn under the Israeli bombardment and diplomatic pressure, clashed with the Drze fighters in Sweida Heartland on Friday. The UN requested the termination of “bloodshed ve and demanded a“ independent özgü investigation of violence.

• In the early hours of Saturday, the US said that after the violence that caused Israeli strikes, a ceasefire negotiated between the Israeli and the Syrian government for new clashes in Drze Heartland. The US Pointman Tom Barrack in Syria said that on Saturday, Sharaa and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the US in the early hours of the Middle East, “accepted a ceasefire”.

• Dr Omar Obeid, who chaired the Sweida department in Syria’s Doctors Order, said Sweida’s single state hospital has received more than 400 corpses since Monday morning, including women, children and the elderly. He said: “A mass grave is not a hospital anymore,”

• The Syrian government misunderstood how Israel would respond to the south of the country this week, and it was encouraged by texting that Syria should be governed as a central state, and eight sources familiar to the issue told Reuters. After being accused of killing people in Sweida in Duze, Israel said that after a climbing Islamist leadership with a surprise, the Syrian troops and Damascus.

• On Friday, Syria’s presidency promised to send power to stop conflicts between Bedouin tribal groups in Sweida in the south of the country and Duze fighters and asked for “restriction .. In a statement, the presidency called “to use all parties to use restriction and give priority to mind ::“ The relevant authorities are trying to send a special force to break the conflicts and solve the conflict. ”

• The UN’s Migration Agency said on Friday, about 80,000 people in Southern Syria, which started last week. In the International Migration Organization, 79,339 people have been displaced since July 13, including 20,019 on July 17, and that water, electricity and telecomms services in Sweida “collapsed” and disabled the transportation and emergency logistics of fuel.

• The Israeli official admitted that Israel has agreed to allow the limited access of Syrian forces to the Sweida region of Southern Syria. The Syrian Presidency said that the authorities will use a force dedicated to the end of conflicts in the South with political and security measures in order to regain stability in the south and prevent the return of violence in the south.

• The UN spokesman said on Friday, Israel’s senior UN charity official Jonathan Whittall for the Palestinian regions of Israel, said he refused to renew his visa. UN Humanitarian Jobs Coordination Office Eri Kaneko said that visas for UN staff have recently been renewed for less time than normal and their requests for access to Gaza have been rejected for more than one agency. Kaneko said Palestinian personnel’s permission to enter East Jerusalem was also stored.

• Yemen’s Houthi Militant group said that the Bullet was cut late on Friday, the Israeli army was triggered by the air strikes in various parts of the country. Most dozens of missiles and drones launched in Israel were stopped or short. Israel made a series of retaliation strikes.

• Iraq said on Friday, a few military radar systems that hit a few military radar systems were launched through the country, but the perpetrators were produced abroad without describing the perpetrators, he said. On June 24, the Iraqi government said that several small suicide people targeted more than one Iraqi military fields and bases, including the radar systems in Camp Taji in the north of Baghdad and the Imam Ali Base in the Dhi Qar province in Iraq.