Talks to reach a Gaza truce were expected to resume Sunday after officials from the Hamas Islamist organisation and Israel publicly disagreed over demands to end their seven-month war.
While mediation took place in Egypt, the head of the UN’s World Food Programme said “there is famine” in northern Gaza, and appealed for a ceasefire.
The war’s impact has been increasingly felt around the world as pro-Palestinian university students from Australia to Mexico and Europe follow the example of protest encampments set up in the United States.
Gaza’s bloodiest-ever war began following Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,170 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Vowing to destroy Hamas, Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 34,654 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry.
An AFP correspondent and witnesses…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
