Israel to focus attack on Rafah, as Hamas weighs ceasefire plan
Hindustan Times|February 03, 2024
Fighting raged Friday in Gaza with scores reported killed overnight, after mediator Qatar said Hamas had given its "initial" support to a hostage-prisoner exchange deal that would pause its war with Israel.

The Gaza health ministry said 112 people had been killed over the previous 24 hours, and the Hamas press office reported Israeli air and artillery bombardment around Khan Younis-southern Gaza's main city and the focus of recent fighting.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said Israeli snipers were firing at one of its buildings where thousands of displaced people were sheltering.

Qatar's foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said there were hopes of "good news" about a fresh pause to the fighting "in the next couple of weeks", after a truce proposal agreed with Israeli negotiators was presented to Hamas.

The plan, thrashed out with Israeli negotiators by Egyptian, Qatari and US mediators in Paris earlier this week, had received a "positive" initial response from Hamas, Ansari said.

"That proposal has been approved by the Israeli side and now we have an initial positive confirmation from the Hamas side," he said.

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