Benjamin Netanyahu agrees to discuss a truce, sending a delegation of negotiators on August 15

This announcement comes after an urgent appeal from mediating countries in the face of the risk of military escalation in the Middle East.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the state memorial for Zionist leader Zeev Jabotinsky at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on August 4, 2024. (NAAMA GRYNBAUM / POOL / AFP)

Israel has agreed to resume talks on a truce in the Gaza Strip on August 15, where the army launched a new operation in Khan Younis on Friday August 10, following an urgent appeal from mediating countries in the face of the risk of military escalation in the Middle East. Israel has agreed to send “On August 15, a delegation of negotiators will meet at a location to be agreed upon to conclude the details of the implementation of an agreement.”announced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

After ten months of war, the Israeli army continues to fight Hamas in the Palestinian territory, particularly in areas it had claimed to control. The army said Friday that it was engaged in fightings “on the ground and underground” in the region of Khan Younis, the large city in the south of the territory reduced to ruins, where air strikes targeted “more than 30 Hamas terrorist targets”.

The Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian movement Hamas, said Saturday that 93 people had died in Israeli strikes on a school in Gaza City that the Israeli army said was serving as a command center for “terrorists”These strikes, the toll of which cannot be independently verified, are among the deadliest since the start of the war in Gaza, triggered by an unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, according to data provided by the Palestinian Islamist movement.


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