Official Hamas says Gaza mediators enhance the ceasefire efforts

Hamas’s high official told the BBC that mediators have intensified their efforts to conclude a new ceasefire and the hostage transaction, but negotiations with Israel remain hiding.

The comments came up when US President Donald Trump said he made great progress because Israel and Iran had ended their 12-day war on Tuesday, and his messenger Steve Vitco believed that the agreement between Israel and Hamas was “very close”.

Israeli gas attacks on Wednesday killed at least 45 Palestinians, including some who have sought help, said the Ministry of Health Hamas.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military announced that seven soldiers who had been approved by Hamas had been killed on Tuesday.

“I think we have made a lot of progress in the gas, I think we have made this attack,” President Trump told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday, citing air strikes on Iranian nuclear institutions held over the weekend amid the conflict between Israel and Iran.

“I think we will have very good news. I talked to Steve Vitkoff … (and) he told me that the gas is very close,” he added.

Shortly after Trump said a high -ranking Hamas official said the BBC that the mediators “were engaged in intensive contacts aimed at reaching a ceasefire agreement.”

However, he added that the group still “did not receive a new proposal”.

The Israeli official also told the Haaretz newspaper that there were no progress in the negotiations and that the main differences remained unresolved.

The efforts of the US, Qatar and Egypt on the conclusion of the transaction that stopped in late May, when Vitkoff said that Hamas sought “completely inadmissible” amendments to the US proposal, backed up by Israel for a 60-day breakage, during which half of the living Israeli hostages and half of the dead.

On March 18, Israel restored the military offensive, breaking down the two -month ceasefire. It states that he wants to put pressure on Hamas to release his hostages. Fifty is still in gas, at least 20 of which are considered alive.

In early March, Israel also imposed a general blockade of humanitarian aid in gas, which it partially decreased 11 weeks after pressure from the US allies and warnings of global experts that half a million were running out.

At the same time, Israel and the United States supported the creation of a new help distribution mechanism managing the Gaza Gazumanitarian Fund (GHF), which is intended to bypass the UN as the main provider of the Palestinians. They said the GHF system would prevent the abduction of Hamas’s assistance that the group denies.

GHF, which uses private US security contractors, says it has posted food packages containing more than 44 million meals since it started working on May 26, over 2.4 million on Wednesday.

However, the UN and other assistance groups refused to cooperate with GHF, accusing him of cooperation with the goals of Israel in such a way that violates fundamental humanitarian principles.

They also expressed anxiety in the nearest Palestinians who died near the groups located in Israeli military zones.

According to the Ministry of Health Gaza, at least 549 people were killed and 4,000 were injured, trying to gather assistance because GHF assistance began to disseminate on May 26.

On Wednesday morning, a spokesman for Civil Defense Agency Hamas said six people were killed when Israeli troops opened fire in the crowd waiting for about one of the GHF food centers in Central Gaza.

Three more killed near the GHF site in the southern city of Rafa, he added.

However, the Israeli military said they “do not know about incidents with victims in these fields”, while GHF notes that reports of any such incidents near its sites were false.

In Gaza -Sity burials were held for some of the 33 people who, according to the Ministry of Health, were killed in the previous day, waiting for help.

“I say and repeat a million times,” said Abu Mohammed Agency Reuters. “These assistance points are not help points, these are death points.”

UNICEF James Senior Press Senior, who just visited the gas, said: “As long as the population refuses to eat, people are offered this deadly choice and, unfortunately, because it is in the fighting zone, it cannot improve.”

The Civil Defense Press also stated that six more people, including a child, were killed in the home of the Nuserat refugee at the Central Gazeta on Wednesday.

He said five more people were killed when houses in the neighboring city of Deir al-Bala, he said.

More than 860 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza during the Israeli-Iran conflict, which began when Israel launched an air campaign aimed at Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. In response, Iran launched a flossing rocket towards Israel.

People in Gaza were divided into their estimates what the ceasefire meant for the territory.

Some considered the weakening of Iran, a key regional supporter Hamas, as a potentially positive step to reaching a gas truce because it could make the group facilitate its requirements.

Others, however, are afraid that the end of the conflict will allow Israel to redirect its military attention back to gas and strengthen its air and ground operations.

One man in Han UNIS, Nadar Ramadan, said the BBC that the gas during the conflict was “getting worse”.

“(Israeli) bombing increased, the damage increased, and the invasion has expanded in certain areas … We only felt the destruction,” he said.

Adele Abu Edo said the most difficult thing is the lack of access to help. He said that the items were looted and sold for inflated prices, and civilians fall under Israeli fire when trying to get food.

“What should we do?” he asked. “We feel shooting and murder all the time.”

In Israel, the military announced that seven soldiers were killed in the battle in South Gaza on Tuesday, the most deadly incident after the fire ceased.

A spokesman for Brig-Geng A epheal of Defrin said the explosive device was tied to the armored man in the area of ​​Unis, and that the explosion made the vehicle catch fire. Helicopters and rescue forces made some unsuccessful attempts to save them, he added.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was a “difficult day for the Israeli people.”

Death resumed the pressure on Netanyahu to agree with the ceasefire, and the leader of the far -Orthodox Jewish party in his ruling coalition stated that Israel should end the war and bring all the hostages home.

“I don’t understand what we are fighting for and for what purpose … When the soldiers are constantly killing?” Moshe Hafney, from the united Judaism, Tori told Israel in the parliament.

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel, killing about 1,200 people, and another 251 took hold.

According to the Ministry of Health, at least 56 157 people were killed in Gaza.

Additional Alice Kaddy report in Jerusalem