Israel to start humanitarian pause in Gaza early Sunday: Report
Tel Aviv will implement a humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip beginning early Sunday until the evening, Israeli media reported late Saturday.
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Tel Aviv will implement a humanitarian pause in the Gaza Strip beginning early Sunday until the evening, Israeli media reported late Saturday.
As starvation rises in Gaza, prompting global outrage, Israel’s military said it would restart airborne aid delivery there and make land deliveries less dangerous.
Hamas officials have expressed surprise at US President Donald Trump’s accusation that the Palestinian group “didn’t really want” a ceasefire for the Gaza Strip.
Britain, France and Germany on Friday called for an end to Gaza’s “humanitarian catastrophe” as the UN food agency warned almost a third of people in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory were not eating for days.
Israel has long restricted aid to Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a weapon of control over the population. On Saturday, the Israeli military announced new airdrops of aid.
United States President Donald Trump has suggested that Hamas is refusing to agree to a Gaza truce because it fears what comes after all the Israeli hostages are released.
United States President Donald Trump has suggested that Hamas is refusing to agree to a Gaza truce because it fears what comes after all the Israeli hostages are released.
Jordan and the United Arab Emirates were expected to begin airdrops in the coming days, but experts warned that the bulk of necessary aid could come only by land.
The French president, expressing a moral obligation to address suffering in Gaza, made clear he had lost patience with the United States and Israel. The question is what effect he will have.
Almost a third of people in the Gaza Strip are “not eating for days”, the United Nations food aid agency told AFP on Friday, adding the crisis has reached “new and astonishing levels of desperation”.