GAZA STRIP: Israel carried out deadly air strikes in the Gaza Strip as the conflict entered its tenth month on Sunday, with fighting raging across the Palestinian territory and fresh diplomatic efforts underway to halt the violence.
Israel has said it will send a delegation in the coming days to continue truce talks with Qatari mediators that began recently in Doha.
But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman said “gaps” remained with Hamas on how to secure a ceasefire and hostage release deal.
“It was agreed that next week Israeli negotiators will travel to Doha to continue the talks. There are still gaps between the parties,” the spokesman said in a statement on Friday.
Meanwhile, the fighting in Gaza continued unabated, with the Palestinian Red Crescent saying Sunday that the bodies of six people, including two children, who were killed in Israeli strikes had arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah.
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Paramedics also said Sunday that six people had been killed in an Israeli strike on a house in a northern area of Gaza City.
The day before, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said 16 people had been killed in a strike on a school run by the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) that was sheltering displaced people in Nuseirat, in central Gaza.
The Israeli military said its aircraft had targeted “terrorists” operating around the Al-Jawni school.
The military earlier said it had conducted operations across much of the Gaza Strip, including Shujaiya in the north, Deir al-Balah and Rafah in the south.
Shujaiya is among the areas the military had previously declared to be cleared of Hamas, but where fighting has since resumed.
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