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Mediators make fresh push for peace in Gaza as an optimization of deaths from the new Israeli campaign



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International mediators are again trying to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza Strip after Israel launched a big new offensive in the territory, since the Ministry of Health had killed more than 100 people there intensively overnight.

On Saturday, Hamas and Israel began indirect negotiations in the Qatarian capital Doha to make an armistice and hostages.

Senior Hamas official Taher Al-Nunu confirmed the resumption of conversations in Doha and said: “We have approved the current round of negotiations without conditions,” said Hamas Manager Al Aqsa TV.

Israel's Minister of Defense Israel claimed on Saturday that his new military operation had pushed Hamas to the negotiating table.

“With the start of Operation 'Gideon's Chariots' in Gaza … the Hamas delegation in Doha announced a return to the negotiations on a Geisel deal -in contrast to the rejection that they had maintained until this moment,” said Katz.

Another option, however, is that Hamas has agreed to restart the talks after a visit by US President Donald Trump to the Middle East.

“After the discussions between Qatar and the United States during the visit of President Trump in Doha, there is a new move by mediators from the United States, Qatar and Egypt to determine whether a new ceasefire contract can be achieved,” said an official with knowledge of the discussions towards CNN.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in close contact with the negotiation team in Doha as well as the Israeli strategic minister of mentality Ron Dermer and the US Middle East sent Steve Witkoff to drive the deal on Saturday CNN.

He instructed his negotiation team to stay in Doha, “all efforts to secure the release of our hostages,” added the official.

Last week Netanyahu instructed the Israeli negotiation team to go to Katar after talks, but made it clear that he only campaigned for a proposal to be negotiated by Witkoff, which would publish half of half of the hostages for a temporary ceasefire. The proposal does not guarantee the end of the war.

Trump was in Doha on Wednesday as part of an exit in the Middle East that skipped Israel. Trump said last week that he had an end to the “brutal war” in Gaza Strip.

He also avoided Israel twice this month to achieve bilateral business with regional militant groups. Hamas released an Israeli-American hostage last week, and the Houthis agreed to shoot American ships in the Red Sea as they promised to continue to fight Israel.

On Wednesday, Trump denied that Israel had failed. “It's good for Israel,” he said. But on Thursday he said he wanted the USA to “take” Gaza and transform it into a “freedom zone”.

“I have concepts for Gaza, which I think is very good, make it a freedom zone, hire the United States and only make it a freedom zone,” said Trump in Qatar.

During the golf, Trump also admitted that people are starving in Gaza Strip and the USA “care” in Gaza Strip.

In the meantime, the UN and the prominent aid organizations increase the alarm via Israel's new offensive in Gaza, the say, civilians who bear the main burden of the attack.

The Israeli military said that the operation would “achieve all the goals of the war in Gaza, including the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas”.

More than 100 people were killed in fresh air raids overnight, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced on Sunday with entire families.

The Palestinians bear the corpses of their relatives, which were killed in southern Gaza in southern Gaza in southern Gaza on Sunday, May 18, 2025.

In the Al-Mawasi area of ​​the southern Gaza, a child, his two young siblings and her parents, all of whom lived in a repressed camp, were killed on Saturday, said Dr. Munir al-Barsh, the director of the Ministry of Health, to CNN.

While the bombing continues and the number of fatalities increases, the Gaza health system is further pushed to the edge.

On Sunday, the Ministry of Health said that “all public hospitals in the North Gaza Strip are now not in operation”.

The UN now warns that over 2.1 million human-the entire population of the enclave of the risk of famine are suspended after 19 months of conflict and mass shift, which have now been tightened by the eleven-week blocking of aids of Israel.

On Friday, the UN HEATS CEO, Volker Turk, said in a statement that the renewed bomb campaign corresponds to ethnic cleaning.

“This most recent flood of bombs … and the rejection of humanitarian aid underline that there is a move after a permanent demographic change in the Gaza Strip, which opposes international law and is synonymous with ethnic cleaning,” said Turk.

Despite the resumption of conversations in Qatar, Omar Qandil, whose brother, sister -in -law and 4 -month -old niece were killed in an office attack overnight in the center of Gaza that he had the feeling that the world had blindly thrown its suffering.

“They all slept … all in their bedroom,” he said.

“I no longer know what we (can) say, we have spoken a lot. It does not look at anyone: no Arabs, no Muslims, nobody.”

CNNS Eyad Kourdi, Abeer Salman and Eugenia Yosef have contributed to the reporting.

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