Gaza health authorities say more than 38,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli offensive launched in response to a Hamas-led attack on Israel last Oct. 7, in which Israel said 1,200 people were killed and over 250 taken hostage.
After weeks with little public diplomacy, mediators Egypt and Qatar delivered a response from Hamas to a proposal that would include a release of hostages held in Gaza and a ceasefire in the Palestinian enclave.
Saving groups or chamas have been a lifeline for many women in Kwale County, allowing them to educate their children, purchase property, and even start businesses.
On May 31, Biden laid out what he called a "three-phase" Israeli proposal that would include negotiations for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
It said military activity would be paused from 0500 GMT until 1600 GMT daily until further notice along the road that leads from the Kerem Shalom Crossing to the Salah al-Din Road and then northwards.
They urged the implementation of relevant UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions and the UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution 2720, emphasising the need for unhindered humanitarian aid access to Gaza.
"This compounds the suffering of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and further endangers their safety and wellbeing,” said ILO Regional Director for Arab States Ruba Jaradat.
His departure means Netanyahu will lose the backing of a centrist bloc that has helped broaden support for the government in Israel and abroad, amid a months-long war in Gaza.
A medical source said 40 had been killed, including 14 children and nine women.
The latest Hamas statement came as Israel pressed on with an offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, despite an order by ICJ to halt the attacks.
While the International Court of Justice, or World Court, has no means to enforce its orders, the case was a stark sign of Israel's global isolation over its campaign in Gaza.
Gantz said he wanted the war cabinet to form a six-point plan by June 8. If his expectations are not met, he said, he will withdraw his centrist party from the conservative premier's broadened emergency coalition.
Fighting has directly shut down some of the main medical facilities that had served half of Gaza's 2.3 million people who have been sheltering in Rafah.
Israel has shut down both the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings for aid and people as part of its military operation in Rafah.
The US, which has played a mediation role in the talks, said it was studying the Hamas response and would discuss it with Middle East allies.
The OIC also emphasised the need for an immediate, permanent, and unconditional ceasefire.
Amid diplomatic manoeuvres in the push for an end to the Israel-Palestine conflict, Middle East expert John Strawson says the crisis has reached a critical moment.
On their second day of truce talks in Cairo with Egyptian and Qatari mediators, Hamas negotiators maintained their stance that any truce agreement must end the war.
Taher Al-Nono, a Hamas official and advisor to Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, said meetings with Egyptian and Qatari mediators had begun.
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