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Israel Gaza live updates: Gaza choked off from aid, says UN, with southern crossings closed - BBC News Israel Gaza live updates: Gaza choked off from aid, says UN, with southern crossings closed - BBC News
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We can bring you more now on the Israeli position on the ceasefire deal offered by Qatari and Egyptian mediators, which Hamas said yesterday it was prepared to accept.
An Israeli official briefed on the talks says a mid-level Israeli delegation is due to hold talks in Cairo this evening. Cogat, the Israeli
The delegation is there to see if they can negotiate some "new answers", the official says. military agency tasked with coordinating aid access in Gaza, says 60 aid trucks
According to the official, there are four aspects of the proposal that Hamas has agreed to which Israel takes issue with: have passed through the Erez crossing in the north of Gaza so far today.
The document refers to the end of the war, described as a permanent ceasefire, according to the official Earlier today, international
They believe it would see female soldiers released too late in the process aid agencies said the closing of the two main crossings into southern Gaza - Rafah
They say the document references a contingency that if 33 living hostages cannot be found for the first phase, then bodies can be substituted instead, which the Israeli official said is unacceptable and Kerem Shalom - was making it virtually impossible to assist civilians
Israel believes it would obliged to release an agreed number of prisoners from a list that Hamas will provide, with no power of veto for any individual case inside the enclave.
A reminder - we have not had confirmation from Hamas or the mediators as to what is included in the deal currently on the table. We do know that Israel also already dismissed it as "far from meeting" its "core demands". The UN has called for both crossings to be reopened immediately. It says Israel
is not allowing humanitarian workers access to the Rafah crossing, after taking
control of the Gaza side of the border with Egypt.
The other main
crossing, Kerem Shalom, was closed after a rocket attack by Hamas fighters over
the weekend killed four Israeli soldiers in the area. Hamas then targeted the
crossing in another attack this morning.
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