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Mediators attempting to negotiate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on Sunday called on both sides to agree to a truce and hostage release deal outlined by US President Joe Biden last week, even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted he will pursue the war raging until Hamas is destroyed and the captives are freed.

Washington, DC [US]: President Joe Biden announced on Friday that Israel has proposed a «comprehensive new proposal» that provides a roadmap to a ceasefire in the ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza and securing the release of all hostages held by the terrorist group, CNN reported. According to Biden, the proposal, transmitted by Qatar to Hamas, outlines a «roadmap» towards a ceasefire. The initial phase, spanning six weeks, involves a «full and complete ceasefire with the withdrawal of Israeli forces from all populated areas of Gaza» and «release of a number of hostages including women, the elderly, the wounded in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.»

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to convene his war cabinet Sunday to discuss the latest efforts towards a Gaza truce and hostage release deal, a senior official told AFP. The news came despite more deadly Gaza fighting and a rocket barrage Hamas aimed at Tel Aviv that sent people scrambling for bomb shelters as air defences intercepted projectiles streaking across the sky. US President Joe Biden has pushed for renewed international efforts to halt the Gaza war, and CIA chief Bill Burns on Friday met Mossad director David Barnea and Qatar's prime minister in Paris.

Hamas representative Osama Hamdan has firmly rejected the notion of engaging in new negotiations with Israel, countering Israeli media reports suggesting a potential revival of talks for a Gaza truce, as reported by Al Jazeera. In a recent telephone interview with Al Jazeera Arabic, Hamdan emphasised that the priority lies in Israel's withdrawal from Gaza and the cessation of all hostilities. «We do not need new negotiations,» he asserted, underlining that Hamas had already acquiesced to a ceasefire proposal, which Israel had rebuffed.

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France said late Monday it supported the independence of the International Criminal Court, whose prosecutor has requested arrest warrants for leaders from Israel, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Islamist movement Hamas. «France supports the International Criminal Court, its independence, and the fight against impunity in all situations,» its foreign ministry said in a statement.

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Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah on Tuesday, reaching some residential districts of the southern border city where more than a million people had been sheltering after being displaced in seven months of war. «The tanks advanced this morning west of Salahuddin Road into the Brzail and Jneina neighbourhoods. They are in the streets inside the built-up area and there are clashes,» one resident told Reuters. Video on social media showed one tank in Al-Jneina neighbourhood. Hamas' armed wing said it destroyed an Israeli troop carrier with an Al-Yassin 105 missile in the eastern Al-Salam neighbourhood, killing some crew members and wounding others. The Israel Defense Forces declined to comment.

A post shared by Paulo Coelho (@paulocoelho) Since the October 7 attacks by Hamas-backed terrorists in Israel and the subsequent bombings in Gaza, pictures depicting violence, helplessness and trauma are all over the internet. But, apart from diplomatic condemnations, the pictures didn't change much reality on the ground as Israel's bombings in Gaza continues and the death toll in the Palestinian territory has crossed a whopping 35,000.

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