A mediator stressed the importance of brokering a ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after Hamas showed a “positive response” to a ceasefire deal.

Military official tells MEE Egyptian army is on ‘the highest state of alert we’ve seen in years’ as Israel prepares to occupy Gaza

The displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip is a “red line” and Cairo will not allow any party to risk Egypt’s national security or sovereignty, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Monday.

Israel demands the disarmament of Hamas for any agreement to halt its brutal war on the Gaza Strip. But Egypt’s state-run Al-Qahera News Channel, citing Egyptian sources, dismissed the Israeli reports, stressing that a recent proposal put forward by Egypt and Qatar and accepted by Hamas involves a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza.

Al-Hayek stresses that the Palestinian Authority should govern Gaza after the war and urges international backing for reconstruction. GAZA CITY - Munther Al-Hayek, spokesperson for the Palestinian Fatah Movement in the Gaza Strip,

Hamas has accepted a new ceasefire proposal for Gaza, a senior member of the group said on Monday, after a fresh diplomatic push to end more than 22 months of war. Mediators Egypt and Qatar, backed by the US,

Official says plan would see 60-day ceasefire, hostage release in two phases; Qatari PM reportedly traveling to Egypt to meet with Hamas representatives, Egyptian president

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said Monday his country would continue mediation efforts with both Qatar and the US for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.The remarks

At the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, hundreds of aid trucks sat unmoving in the Egyptian desert, stuck for days with only a handful allowed through by Israel to relieve the humanitarian disaster across the border.

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