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(NewsNation) — On Friday, President Donald Trump told reporters, "We deliberation wrong the adjacent week we’re going to get a ceasefire” successful Gaza — but Israeli strikes person lone ramped up since.
The Israeli Defense Forces said it deed 140 panic sites successful the past 24 hours arsenic it prepares to participate a caller signifier of "intensified" subject operations against Hamas.
Civilians are being caught successful the crossfire, and witnesses accidental much than 70 radical were killed Monday arsenic Israeli forces attacked a café and fired connected radical seeking food.
“Without a warning, each of a sudden, a warplane deed the place, shaking it similar an earthquake,” Ali Abu Ateila, who was wrong Al-Baqa Café, told the Associated Press.
President Donald Trump has urged Israel to marque a deal alongside the Qatari government.
In an exclusive interrogation with NewsNation, Majed Al-Ansari, the elder advisor to the Qatari premier minister, said they are moving “day and night.”
Netanyahu to sojourn White House adjacent week
Trump volition big Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu successful Washington, D.C., connected Monday for talks astir the warfare successful Gaza, according to 2 U.S. medication officials who spoke connected the information of anonymity due to the fact that they were not authorized to remark publically connected it.
Netanyahu's sojourn comes aft Trump progressive the U.S. successful the Israel-Iran struggle with strikes connected Iranian atomic sites, past helped broker a ceasefire betwixt the 2 Middle Eastern countries.
Discussions surrounding the effectiveness of Trump's strikes connected Iran and a semipermanent ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hamas are apt to instrumentality halfway signifier successful the meeting.
International unit to extremity warfare successful Gaza grows
As Trump prepares to unit Netanyahu stateside, calls from the planetary assemblage to extremity the humanitarian concern wrong Gaza are increasing louder.
A large interest for the United States is nutrient falling into the hands of Hamas and being utilized arsenic a means of exerting power implicit Palestinians successful Gaza. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which has backing from the U.S. and Israel, has taken the pb connected nutrient organisation successful the area.
The foundation's president, Johnnie Moore, told NewsNation immoderate of the group's section assistance workers person been killed and taken hostage, and claimed Hamas has enactment bounties connected assistance workers' heads.
"We've got to get nutrient into the Gaza Strip, and we've got to get it successful now, truthful 1 much clip to the planetary community: let's enactment together. The nutrient insecurity is real. It's a superior situation. It's an exigency situation," Moore said. "We're not a governmental organization. We person 1 mission: to amusement up and support feeding Gazans. We're going to support doing it."
The planetary assemblage does not enactment the instauration — including cardinal U.S. allies similar Great Britain and the United Nations. They contend that assistance organisation sites person been made excessively dangerous.
"People are being killed simply trying to provender their families. The hunt for nutrient indispensable ne'er beryllium a decease condemnation ... Any cognition that channels hopeless civilians into militarized zones is inherently unsafe," said U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
More than 56,000 Palestinians person been killed successful the warfare successful Gaza, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not separate betwixt civilians and combatants. It said much than fractional of the dormant were women and children.
The Hamas onslaught connected Oct. 7, 2023, that sparked the warfare killed astir 1,200, mostly civilians, and took 251 others hostage. An estimated 50 hostages remain, galore of them thought to beryllium dead.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
