{"id":26397,"date":"2025-01-05T05:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T05:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=26397"},"modified":"2025-01-05T07:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T07:40:36","slug":"israeli-strikes-kill-65-more-palestinians-as-mediators-launch-new-ceasefire-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/01\/israeli-strikes-kill-65-more-palestinians-as-mediators-launch-new-ceasefire-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes kill 65 more Palestinians amid new ceasefire push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; An Israeli military strike has killed 12 people in a house in Gaza City, bringing the death toll from strikes across the Gaza Strip to 65 over the last day, Palestinian medics say, as mediators launched a new ceasefire push in Qatar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Civil defense spokesperson Mahmud Bassal accused Israel of having &#8220;deliberately targeted&#8221; them to &#8220;affect the humanitarian supply chain and increase the suffering&#8221; of the population.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli army said the five had been &#8220;implicated in terrorist activities&#8221; and were not escorting aid trucks at the time of the strike.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers said strikes elsewhere in Gaza killed 10 other people.<\/p>\n<p>The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said more than 130 people had been killed over a 48-hour period.<\/p>\n<p>Late on Friday, Hamas had said indirect negotiations with Israel were to resume in Qatar that same night for a truce and hostage release deal.<\/p>\n<p>The militant group, whose October 7 attack on southern Israel triggered the Gaza war, said talks would &#8220;focus on ensuring the agreement leads to a complete cessation of hostilities (and) the withdrawal of occupation forces&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has since confirmed that indirect negotiations have resumed in Qatar, saying a delegation had left on Friday and that &#8220;efforts are underway to free the hostages&#8221; taken by Hamas in its October 7 attack on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States have been engaged in months of effort that have failed to end nearly 15 months of war.<\/p>\n<p>A key obstacle to a deal has been Israel&#8217;s reluctance to agree to a lasting ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Qatar expressed optimism that &#8220;momentum&#8221; was returning to the talks following the US election of Donald Trump, who takes office in 16 days.<\/p>\n<p>But Hamas and Israel then accused each other of setting new conditions and obstacles.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli military strike has killed 12 people in a house in Gaza City, bringing the death toll from strikes across the Gaza Strip to 65 over the last day, Palestinian medics say, as mediators launched a new ceasefire push in Qatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":26398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,194,338,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-world","category-middle-east","category-headline"],"views":45,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26404,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26397\/revisions\/26404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}