Egypt has presented its new proposal to restore the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
An Egyptian official told the Associated Press that the proposal stipulates that Hamas releases five living hostages, including an American-Israeli individual, in exchange for Israel allowing the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip and a week-long cessation of fighting.
Israel must also release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
A Hamas official explained that the movement responded positively to the proposal, without elaborating.
Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip has now resumed, after Tel Aviv shattered the truce and ceasefire agreement.
On Monday, the Palestinian municipality of Rafah announced a complete blackout of communications and the internet in Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, warning of a genocide for thousands of trapped civilians.
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced the deaths of 61 citizens, while 134 wounded people arrived at hospitals in Gaza over the past 24 hours.
Israeli forces shelled the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross west of Rafah, Palestine, with a tank shell, violating international law.
Israeli tanks also advanced into the vicinity of Rafah’s Mawasi area, amid heavy artillery shelling.
Senior Hamas leader killed
The Israeli army announced on Monday that it targeted a senior Hamas leader inside Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza Strip.
Palestinian media confirmed that Ismail Barhoum, a member of the movement’s political bureau, was killed in the airstrike on the hospital’s operating room, where he was receiving treatment after being injured in a previous bombing.
The Palestinian municipality of Rafah reported that communications and internet service were completely cut off in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, with thousands of civilians at risk after being trapped without the ability to seek assistance.
In the occupied West Bank, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned that tens of thousands of displaced people in the northern occupied West Bank, Palestine, lack adequate shelter, basic services, or access to healthcare.
The organization said in a statement on Monday that: “Following the ceasefire in Gaza in January, Israel launched Operation Iron Wall in the occupied West Bank, forcibly displacing thousands and leaving them in a highly precarious situation.”
Israeli ambulance services and local media reported that an Israeli was killed and another seriously wounded in a shooting attack near the city of Yokneam, southeast of Haifa.
Israeli police said that a gunman ran over civilians at a bus station near the city before getting out of his car and opening fire.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
