Overnight strikes hit Gaza ahead of crucial peace talks

All eyes are on Egypt, where indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel are scheduled to start on the war in Gaza on Monday, with the United States and Israel pushing the rapid release of the hostages.

The talks come after Hamas agreed to some parts of a 20 -point American peace plan, including the release of hostages and the delivery of Gaza governance to Palestinian technocrats, but they seek negotiations on other issues.

The group did not mention the main demands of disarmament and did not play any future role in Gaza governance.

Meanwhile, Israeli air strikes in Gaza continued, although President Donald Trump informs Israel to “stop the bombing immediately” on Friday after Hamas responded to the proposed plan.

“While some bombings have already stopped inside the Gaza Strip, there is no ceasefire at this stage of time,” Israeli government spokesman Shosh Pedrosian told reporters on Sunday.

Pedrosian said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given orders “to re -launch them for defensive purposes … if there is a threat to their lives in the battlefield in Gaza.”

Reports from Gaza say that Israel continued to strike air and tank fire overnight to Sunday, which led to the destruction of a number of residential buildings in Gaza City.

BBC correspondent heard explosions from inside Gaza and saw a smoke column while near the border in Kibbutz Perry, Israel, on Sunday morning.

The Hamas -running Ministry of Health in Gaza said 65 people were killed by Israeli military operations within the 24 hours before.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the American news partner of BBC CBS News that the bombing needs to stop to facilitate the release of the hostages.

“You cannot launch the hostages while there is still a continuous bombardment … You must stop, but you also have to work through other logistics services,” he said to CBS News The Nation on Sunday.

“We want to take the hostages as soon as possible,” he added.

The plan consisting of 20 points is suggested to the fighting and the release of 48 hostages, only 20 of them are alive, compared to hundreds of invaders of the detainees.

Netanyahu said in a televised speech on Saturday that he hopes to announce the hostage “in the coming days.”

Pedosian said on Sunday:

Israeli negotiations will go to Egypt on Sunday evening to hold the decisive talks that will start on Monday. The special envoy Steve Witkeov and the Qatari Foreign Minister will attend Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman Al.

The talks are expected to be among the most subordinate since the beginning of the war and can determine whether the path is towards ending the conflict on hand.

Many Palestinians described Hamas’s response to the peace plan as unexpected, and after days of evidence that the group was preparing for rejection or at least explaining its acceptance of the proposal of the peace plan in Trump.

Instead, Hamas has declined to include the traditional “red lines” in the official statement, a step that explains many as a sign of external pressure.

A senior Palestinian official said to the BBC talks that the Egyptian country, the mediators and the Turks played a major role in persuading Hamas to calm its objections and left controversial points such as the fate of its weapons, Gaza’s governance after the war and other fears.

Many Ghazan warns that this tactical flexibility carries great risks.

Every additional day of delay means more deaths, destruction and displacement of hundreds of thousands of gas.

However, Hamas’s decision to enter the talks can be considered without explicit conditions as a recognition of the limited financial leverage after nearly two years of war.

Trump, when Jake Taber asked her from CNN, what would happen if Hamas insisted on staying in power in Gaza, he answered in a text message that the group would face “complete blur.”

The US President published on social media that Israel agreed to a preliminary withdrawal line in Gaza, the first in a proposed series of the back by the Israeli forces.

According to the data distribution data in the Gaza Strip, the withdrawal map published by Trump will initially exclude nearly 900,000 Palestinians from returning to their homes.

The proposed lines are published in the far south, Beit Hannon and Beit Lahia in the north, nearly a quarter of Gaza City, and half of Khan Yunis and Deir Al -Bala in the center and south.

Hamas rejected a similar map during the previous rounds of the talks in March and May this year.

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas -led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others took hostage.

Since then, 67139 has been killed by Israeli military operations in Gaza, says the Ministry of Health.

International journalists have been prevented by Israel from entering the Gaza Strip independently since the beginning of the war, making the claims that have been verified on both sides are difficult.

At the present time, the region maintains its breath while negotiators are preparing to gather in Egypt, in the hope that despite the deep lack of confidence and political fragility, this tour may finally open the way towards the ceasefire.