Israel: Netanyahu accepts US proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said to relatives of hostages held in the Gaza Strip that his government has accepted the new proposal for a ceasefire presented by US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkov.

The Palestinian organization Hamas announced earlier that it has received the new proposal from the mediators and is studying it.

According to Israeli media, the proposal includes a 60 -day ceasefire and the release of ten hostages. Hamas should also deliver the carcasses of 18 abductors, in return for the liberation of Palestinians from Israeli prisons.

If during the Israeli and Hamas truce they reach an agreement to end the war, the rest of the hostages held in Gaza will be released.

On the basis of the proposal, the distribution of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave will be re -undertaken by the United Nations and other international relief organizations.

‘He has no excuse’

The AP news agency notes, citing a Hamas official and an Egyptian official, that more than 1,100 Palestinian prisoners will be released, including 100 long -term penalties, and that the Israeli forces will be withdrawn in Achieving a long -term agreement.

Hard -core members of government Netanyahu They have expressed their opposition to the proposal, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stating, according to information, that it will be a « salvation for Hamas ». « We do not leave areas we have conquered, » he added.

The Minister of National Security Italbar Ben-Gvir said the acceptance of such an agreement by Netanyahu would equalize in breach of a « red line ».

However, Israeli opposition officials have expressed their support in the proposal. Opposition leader Yair Lapid urged Netanyahu to accept it « immediately », committing to providing him with political support for the agreement if his hard -core allies in government try to « torpedo » it.

Benny Gads, president of the opposition National Unity Party, also called on Netanyahu to accept the proposal, saying that « he has no excuse » not to do so.

Gaza: 44 dead in Israeli attacks

Meanwhile, the Civil Protection Service in the Gaza Strip announced the deaths of 44 people in Israeli attacks, 23 of which are hit in a home in the central part of the Palestinian territory destroyed by the war.

« Forty-four people were killed in Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip » by midnight, Mohammed al-Mugagir, a first aid official told the French Agency. « Twenty -three people were killed, others were injured and many are considered missing after an Israeli blow to a home » in the Palestinian refugee camp Burrez, in the central part of the Gaza Strip, he added.

He spoke of « two people who were killed and several injured by the fires of Israeli forces this morning near the US Aid Center on the Morang Axis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip ».

Pictures of the French Agency from al-Burreitz show Palestinians looking for the ruins

Asked by the French Bureau on Burrez and the blows near the aid center, the Israeli army said he was considering the information.

The US -supported organization center is involved in a new Gaza aid distribution plan, which, according to Israel, aims to prevent Hamas from grabbing supplies but has caused many criticism, including the United Nations.

Pictures of the French Agency from al-Burreitz show Palestinians looking for the ruins of a damaged building:

In a statement, the army said it hit « dozens of terrorist targets throughout the Gaza Strip » during the last day.

« Among the targets affected were terrorists, military structures, observatories, and snipers who were a threat to Israeli troops in the area, tunnels and other terrorist infrastructure locations, » according to the statement.