He told allies pushing for a ceasefire: "Are your memories that short? Have you so quickly forgotten Oct 7?"
A first sea shipment of aid into Gaza by the World Central Kitchen, using a new route via Cyprus, arrived on March 15.DOHA/JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed international pressure on March 17 and said he would keep on with the military campaign against the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza, even as ceasefire talks were set to resume.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who is in Jordan before a planned visit to Israel, said an assault on Rafah would make regional peace “very difficult” and that efforts now were “about ensuring we come to a long-lasting ceasefire”. More than five months of war and an Israeli siege have led to dire humanitarian conditions in Gaza, where the UN has repeatedly warned of looming famine for the coastal territory’s 2.4 million people.
“The mediators felt positive about Hamas’ new proposal. Some in Israel felt the group made some improvement on its previous position, and it is now in the hands of Netanyahu alone to say whether an agreement is imminent,” said the official, who asked not to be named. Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan told Al Jazeera that the group’s proposal is so realistic that “no one can object to it” and claimed mediators had reacted positively.
Israel’s ground and air campaign has killed more than 31,500 people, mostly women and children, according to health authorities in Hamas-run Gaza. Israel says it has killed at least 13,000 Hamas members.
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