Qatari, Egyptian and US leaders on Thursday urged Israel and Hamas to resume urgent talks on August 15 either in Doha or Cairo to bridge all remaining gaps in the proposed Gaza ceasefire agreement and start implementing it without any delay. Their joint statement came after the Israeli military ordered another mass evacuation in large areas around Khan Younis in southern Gaza, saying its forces will soon operate there in response to Palestinian rocket fire. Read our liveblog to see how all the day's events unfolded.
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Qatari, Egyptian and US leaders on Thursday urged Israel and Hamas to resume urgent talks on August 15 either in Doha or Cairo to bridge all remaining gaps in the proposed Gaza ceasefire agreement and start implementing it without any delay.
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The Israeli military on Thursday ordered another mass evacuation in large areas around Khan Younis in southern Gaza, saying its forces will soon operate there in response to Palestinian rocket fire.
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Israel's decision to revoke the diplomatic status of Norwegian envoys will have negative consequences, Oslo said, after Israel announced it will no longer accredit diplomats for the occupied Palestinian territories. Norway, along with Spain and Ireland, recognised Palestinian statehood in May.
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Air France said Thursday the suspension of flights to Beirut will last until August 11. The airline halted flights on July 29 after regional tensions spiked in the wake of an air strike from Lebanon that killed 12 youths in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights.
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The World Central Kitchen, a US-based NGO, said a Palestinian staff member was killed while off-duty in Gaza.
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At least 39,699 Palestinians have been killed and 91,722 injured in Israel's war in Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave. The Hamas-led October 7 attacks resulted in the deaths of more than 1,190 people, mostly civilians, according to official Israeli figures. Some 250 people were taken hostage, with about 120 remaining in Gaza. Many have been declared dead by Israeli authorities.
Yesterday's key developments:
- Israel's army chief vowed on Wednesday to pursue and eliminate Yahya Sinwar, who was named leader of Hamas following the killing of his predecessor in Tehran last week.
- Israeli forces raided the Balata refugee camp near the city of Nablus and destroyed the local headquarters of the Fatah faction, Palestinian authorities said, as security forces continued sweeps in the occupied West Bank.
- Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Wednesday that it had targeted a ship identified as the Contship Ono with ballistic missiles in the Red Sea, as well as two US destroyers heading northwards in the waterway.
Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent. For more on the health ministry’s casualty figures, click here.
(France 24 with Reuteurs, AP, AFP)
