Israel-Hamas war live: Hamas leader Haniyeh says ‘we are close to reaching a truce agreement’

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In an in-depth illustration of Israeli premier curate Benjamin Netanyahu for the Guardian, Joshua Leifer, an subordinate exertion astatine Dissent formerly based successful Jerusalem, writes:

An onslaught similar Hamas’s 7 October massacre was not expected to person been possible. Certainly not portion premier curate Benjamin Netanyahu was successful charge. He was, arsenic his acolytes enactment it, “Mr Security”. He wanted to beryllium remembered, helium said, arsenic “the protector of Israel”. He boasted that Israel had ne'er known a much peaceful and prosperous clip than the astir 16 years helium has been successful power. It was nether his successive administrations that Israel installed the Iron Dome strategy to intercept rockets from the Gaza Strip, and constructed, on the Gaza border, a 40-mile, $1.1bn fence, equipped with underground sensors, remote-controlled weapons and an expansive camera system. The occurrence of Netanyahu’s imaginativeness of Fortress Israel could beryllium measured successful the imperceptibility of the Palestinians and their suffering from the comfortableness of a Tel Aviv cafe.

But the comparative calm of the past decade-and-a-half was built upon a bid of illusions: that the Palestinians and their aspirations for state could beryllium hidden down factual barriers and ignored; that immoderate remaining absorption could beryllium managed done a operation of exertion and overwhelming firepower; that the world, and particularly Sunni Arab states, had grown truthful bushed of the Palestinian contented that it could beryllium removed from the planetary agenda, and consequently, that Israeli governments could bash arsenic they pleased and endure fewer consequences.

Meanwhile Al Jazeera reports that Israeli forces person struck communications towers successful Gaza City and bluish Gaza, cutting disconnected communications. The Guardian has not verified this study independently.

Details of truce to beryllium announced by Qatar - Hamas official

As acold arsenic we know, Hamas says that a truce woody is “close”. Just to beryllium clear: we bash not cognize whether a woody has been reached oregon presumption finalised, and determination has not been announcement to this effect yet.

We volition bring you much accusation arsenic it emerges.

Possible truce presumption see swap of women and children hostages for women and children prisoners

Hamas authoritative Izzat el Reshiq told Al Jazeera that the conditions of the truce woody volition see the merchandise of Israeli women and children from Gaza successful speech for Palestinian women and children from “occupation prisons”.

Truce nether treatment would past 'a fig of days' – Hamas official

Hamas authoritative Izzat el Reshiq has told Al Jazeera that the ongoing talks are for a truce that would past “a fig of days” and see arrangements for the introduction of assistance successful to Gaza, and a deal, arrangements for introduction of assistance into Gaza, and a swap of hostages taken by Hamas for radical imprisoned by Israel.

Hamas person Haniyeh says ‘we are adjacent to reaching a truce agreement’

Two sources acquainted with the truce talks person told AFP a tentative woody includes a five-day truce, comprised of a ceasefire connected the crushed and limits to Israeli aerial operations implicit confederate Gaza.

In return, betwixt 50 and 100 prisoners held by Hamas and Islamic Jihad – a abstracted Palestinian militant radical – would beryllium released.

They would see Israeli civilians and captives of different nationalities, but nary subject personnel.

Opening summary

This is the Guardian’s unrecorded sum of the Israel-Hamas war with me, Helen Sullivan.

Here are the different cardinal caller developments:

• Gaza authorities said astatine slightest 13,300 Palestinians person been killed successful Gaza since 7 October. The decease toll, published by Gaza’s authorities media bureau connected Monday, includes 5,600 children and 3,550 women.

• Israeli forces continued their violative against Hamas successful bluish Gaza, closing successful connected the Indonesian infirmary wherever thousands of patients and displaced radical person been sheltering for weeks. The caput of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said helium was “appalled” by reports that 12 people, including patients, were killed successful overnight shelling astatine the past infirmary operating successful bluish Gaza. Some 200 patients person been evacuated from the Indonesian infirmary connected Monday, Gaza’s wellness ministry has said.

• The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that wellness services successful Gaza person suffered “catastrophic” damage, with astir hospitals nary longer functioning. Michael Ryan, enforcement manager of the WHO’s wellness emergencies programme, warned that the thousands of injuries sustained by civilians crossed Gaza, combined with the increasing nationalist wellness crisis successful the besieged enclave, is a “recipe for epidemics”. He besides described Israel’s practice for humanitarian alleviation successful Gaza arsenic “subpar”.

• The aesculapian foundation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said a session it operated successful Gaza City was attacked connected Monday morning. Part of the gathering was engulfed successful flames, it said, and 4 marked MSF cars were burned portion a 5th was recovered crushed by a dense conveyance oregon a tank. The foundation said it was not instantly alert of the presumption of 1 subordinate of unit and 20 household members.

• Twenty-eight premature babies were rescued from al-Shifa infirmary successful Gaza City and taken to Egypt connected Monday. The caput of the World Health Organization (WHO) said 31 “very sick” babies were moved from al-Shifa infirmary successful a associated cognition with the UN and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, and 12 of them had been flown to Cairo. Three babies stay successful Gaza.

• Israel and Hamas look to beryllium edging towards a woody that would spot the merchandise of a important fig of hostages, possibly successful return for a constricted ceasefire and the merchandise of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Joe Biden connected Monday said he believed a woody is near, and the White House aboriginal said the US is “doing everything we can” and that it believed “we’re person than we’ve ever been”.

• Families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas person clashed with far-right Israeli politicians who privation to bring successful the decease penalty arsenic a imaginable condemnation for captured Hamas members. The families said connected Monday that adjacent speech of doing truthful mightiness endanger the lives of their relatives. The row underlines the heavy divisions successful Israel implicit however to woody with the hostage crisis.

• The UN caput wide has said it is wide that the warfare successful Gaza has seen “a sidesplitting of civilians that is unparalleled and unprecedented successful immoderate conflict” since helium began his relation successful 2017. At a property league connected Monday, António Guterres besides said helium did not judge a UN protectorate successful Gaza would beryllium a solution to the struggle and that warfare indispensable “move successful a determined, irreversible mode to a two-state solution”.

• Relief trucks primitively from Jordan entered Gaza from Egypt connected Monday with the volition of mounting up a caller tract hospital in the confederate Gaza metropolis of Khan Younis. Jordanian authorities media said it hoped the facility would assistance easiness immoderate of the humanitarian situation arsenic Israel’s forces prehend aesculapian facilities successful the north.

• Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they person seized what they called an Israeli cargo vessel successful the Red Sea, and warned that each vessels linked to Israel “will go a morganatic people for equipped forces”. They person since released video footage reportedly showing equipped men seizing a ship. Israel said the vas was a British-owned and Japanese-operated cargo ship.