Israel sends team to Qatar for Gaza ceasefire negotiations
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The war has been ongoing for nearly 21 months now.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — On Sunday, new information about the Gaza ceasefire proposal was revealed as Israel dispatched a negotiation delegation to Qatar ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled White House visit to discuss possible agreements. Meanwhile, inside the Gaza Strip, hospital authorities reported that Israeli airstrikes resulted in the deaths of at least 38 Palestinians.

“There are 20 hostages still alive and 30 deceased. I am resolute, we are resolute, in our mission to retrieve all of them. And we will be equally resolute to ensure Gaza no longer poses a risk to Israel,” Netanyahu stated prior to his departure, stressing the objective of dismantling Hamas’ military and governance structures.

An individual privy to the negotiation process provided The Associated Press with a copy of the most recent ceasefire proposal submitted to Hamas by mediators. This was corroborated by two other sources familiar with the document. All three individuals requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the ongoing discussions and not having permission to speak publicly on the matter.

The document outlines plans for a 60-day ceasefire during which Hamas would hand over 10 living and 18 dead hostages, Israeli forces would withdraw to a buffer zone along Gaza’s borders with Israel and Egypt, and significant amounts of aid would be brought in. The document says the aid would be distributed by United Nations agencies and the Palestinian Red Crescent. It does not specify what would happen to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the American organization that has distributed food aid since May. Israel wants it to replace the U.N.-coordinated system.

A Trump guarantee

As in previous ceasefire agreements, Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli facilities would be released in exchange for the hostages, but the number is not yet agreed upon.

The proposal stops short of guaranteeing a permanent end to the war — a condition demanded by Hamas — but says negotiations for a permanent ceasefire would take place during the 60 days. During that time, “President (Donald) Trump guarantees Israel’s adherence” to halting military operations, the document says, adding that Trump “will personally announce the ceasefire agreement.”

The personal guarantee by Trump appeared to be an attempt to reassure Hamas that Israel would not unilaterally resume fighting as it did in March during a previous ceasefire, when talks to extend it appeared to stall.

Trump said last week that Israel had agreed on terms for a 60-day ceasefire, but it was unclear if the terms were those in the document reviewed by the AP. Hamas has requested some changes but has not specified them.

Separately, an Israeli official said the security Cabinet late Saturday approved sending aid into northern Gaza, where civilians suffer from acute food shortages. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the decision with the media, declined to give more details.

Northern Gaza has seen just a trickle of aid enter since Israel ended the latest ceasefire in March. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s closest distribution site is near the Netzarim corridor south of Gaza City that separates the territory’s north and south.

Israel hits 130 targets across Gaza

Israeli strikes hit two houses in Gaza City, killing 20 Palestinians and wounding 25 others, according to Mohammed Abu Selmia, director of Shifa Hospital, which serves the area.

Israel’s military said it struck several Hamas fighters in two locations in the area of Gaza City.

In southern Gaza, Israeli strikes killed 18 Palestinians in Muwasi on the Mediterranean coast, where thousands of displaced people live in tents, said officials at Nasser Hospital in nearby Khan Younis. It said two families were among the dead.

“My brother, his wife, his four children, my cousin’s son and his daughter. … Eight people are gone,” said Saqer Abu Al-Kheir as people gathered on the sand for prayers and burials.

Israel’s military had no immediate comment on those strikes but said it struck 130 targets across Gaza in the past 24 hours. It claimed it targeted Hamas command and control structures, storage facilities, weapons and launchers, and that they killed a number of militants in northern Gaza.

Rift over ending the war

Ahead of the indirect talks with Hamas in Qatar, Netanyahu’s office asserted that the militant group was seeking “unacceptable” changes to the ceasefire proposal. Hamas gave a “positive” response late Friday to the latest proposal.

The militant group has sought guarantees that the initial truce would lead to a total end to the war and withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. Previous negotiations have stalled over Hamas demands of guarantees that further negotiations would lead to the war’s end, while Netanyahu has insisted Israel would resume fighting to ensure the group’s destruction.

The war began when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 others hostage. Most have been released in earlier ceasefires. Israel responded with an offensive that has killed over 57,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

The ministry, which is under Gaza’s Hamas government, does not differentiate between civilians and combatants. The U.N. and other international organizations see its figures as the most reliable statistics on war casualties.

Chehayeb and Sewell reported from Beirut. Associated Press writers Tia Goldenberg in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Joey Cappalletti in Washington contributed.

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