Trump has been making a renewed push to end nearly 21 months of war in Gaza

Israel was mulling its response yesterday after Hamas said it was ready to start talks “immediately” on a US-sponsored proposal for a Gaza ceasefire.

The announcement came after it held consultations with other Palestinian factions

Nasser hospital in Gaza is operating as “one massive trauma ward” due to an influx of patients injured at non-United Nations food distribution sites, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.

Hamas is seeking guarantees that a new US ceasefire proposal for Gaza would lead to the offensive’s end, a source close to the group said yesterday, as medics said Israeli strikes across the territory had killed scores more people.

The majority of them are children and women

Word from US President Donald Trump that Israel has agreed to the conditions needed to finalise a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza raised hopes in the enclave, where health officials said at least 43 people had been killed in Israeli attacks yesterday.

Says Israel agrees to US-proposed ceasefire conditions

Israeli planes and tanks struck heavily in north and south Gaza yesterday, destroying clusters of homes, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s confidant was in Washington, expected to discuss a possible ceasefire.

Gaza's civil defence agency said 51 people had been killed by Israeli forces on Monday

Israeli strikes killed at least 58 people across Gaza yesterday as residents in the enclave’s north reported one of the heaviest bombardments in weeks, while Israeli officials were due in Washington for a new ceasefire push by the Trump administration.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed 37 people in the devastated territory yesterday, including at least nine children who died in strikes.

Nearly 100,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, representing about 4 percent of the territory’s population, said the Israeli daily Haaretz.

Among the casualties were three children who were killed in an air strike on a home in Jabalia, northern Gaza

Israel broke the ceasefire in March, launching new devastating attacks on Hamas, which attacked Israel on October 7, 2023

A director from the aid agency Medical Relief in Gaza said yesterday that the situation in the enclave is deteriorating, with 17,000 children suffering from malnutrition.

Rescuers in Gaza said Israeli gunfire and airstrikes killed 56 people in the territory yesterday, including six who they said were waiting to collect aid.

"I think great progress is being made on Gaza, I think because of this attack that we made," said Trump

A survey released last week said 83% of Jewish Israelis supported the assault on Iran and pollsters said they expected Netanyahu's Likud party,

In a separate incident, a soldier was severely wounded also in southern Gaza, the military added in a statement on Wednesday.