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Deir al-Balah: Israeli attacks on Gaza on Sunday killed 24 people, including a woman and her six children, as US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in the region to finalise a ceasefire deal after months of negotiations. The US and co-mediators Egypt and Qatar have said they are ready to finalise the agreement after two days of talks in Doha, while US and Israeli officials have adopted a cautious stance, not expressing much optimism about the deal. Hamas has claimed it is preparing for resistance as Israel repeatedly breaks talks by making new demands.
The proposed ceasefire agreement lays out three phases in which Hamas will release Israeli prisoners captured in the October 7 attack. In exchange for the hostages, Israel will withdraw its troops from Gaza and also release Palestinian hostages.
It is worth noting that since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, a deadly war has been going on between the two, in which more than 40 thousand Palestinian civilians have died and millions have become homeless in Gaza. Experts have now warned of drought and epidemic here. Recently, a mother and her six children were killed in an attack by Israel on Sunday in Deir al-Balah. The children were aged between 18 months and 15 years. The children's mother was a school teacher and was with her husband at the time of the attack on their house. Two apartments of a residential building in the northern city of Jabalia were attacked, killing two men, a woman and her daughter. Nine people were killed in another attack in central Gaza. Four members of the same family, including two women, were killed in an attack late Saturday night in the city of Khan Younis.
Israel claims it is not only targeting terrorists, but civilians are also suffering as Hamas places its fighter jets, weapons, tunnels and rockets in residential areas.
Meanwhile, tensions have also arisen over peace talks in Lebanon, with three UN peacekeepers injured as border violence between Hezbollah and Israel escalated. Mediators have been trying to broker a ceasefire for months, but Hamas has also cast doubt on the existing agreement, saying the new proposal is very different from an earlier one accepted in principle.