Hamas official says that the brokers in Gaza are intensifying the ceasefire efforts

A senior Hamas official told the BBC that the brokers have intensified their efforts to mediate in a new fire and hostage deal in Gaza, but those negotiations with Israel are still suspended.

The comments came when US President Donald Trump said “great progress” since Israel and Iran ended their 12 -day war on Tuesday, and that his envoy Steve Witkeov believed that an agreement between Israel and Hamas was “very soon.”

The Hamas Ministry of Health said that the Israeli attacks throughout Gaza on Wednesday killed at least 45 Palestinians, including some who were looking for help.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced that seven soldiers were killed in a bomb attack on Tuesday, which Hamas demanded.

President Trump told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday, referring to US air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities that were carried out on the weekend amid conflict between Israel and Iran: “I think the great progress is made in Gaza, and I think it is because of this attack that we were subjected to,” President Trump told reporters in Brussels on Wednesday, in reference to the American air strikes on the Iranian nuclear facilities that were carried out on the weekend amid the conflict between Israel and Iran.

“I think we have some very good news,” he added.

Soon after Trump spoke, a great BBC’s enthusiastic official told “they are participating in extensive contacts aimed at reaching the ceasefire agreement.”

However, he added that the group “has not received any new proposal yet.”

An Israeli official also told the Haritz newspaper that there was no progress in the negotiations, and that the main differences remained unleashed.

The efforts made by the United States, Qatar and Egypt are making in the mediation in a deal that stopped at the end of May, when Wittouf said that Hamas had sought “completely unacceptable” amendments to an American proposal backed by Israel for 60 days, during which half of the Israeli hostages and half of those who died.

Israel resumed its military attack in Gaza on March 18, and a two -month ceasefire collapsed. She said she wanted to pressure Hamas to launch her hostage. Fifty are still in Gaza, at least 20 of them are alive.

Israel also imposed comprehensive stakes on the humanitarian delivery operations for aid to Gaza at the beginning of March, which fell partially after 11 weeks after pressure from the allies and warnings of international experts who face half a million people.

At the same time, Israel and the United States supported the creation of the new aid distribution mechanism run by the Gaza Humanitarian Corporation (GHF), which aims to overcome the United Nations as a major resource for aid to the Palestinians. They said the GHF system would prevent the aid stole by Hamas, which the group denies.

GHF, who uses American American security contractors, says she has distributed food packages that contain more than 44 million meals since I started working on May 26, with more than 2.4 million meals on three locations on Wednesday.

However, the United Nations and other relief groups refused to cooperate with GHF, accusing it of cooperation with Israel’s goals in a way that violates the basic humanitarian principles.

They also expressed his warning of reports close to the two daily killing of Palestinians near the group’s sites, which are inside the Israeli military areas.

According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, at least 549 people were killed and 4,000 were wounded while trying to collect aid since GHF began distributing aid on May 26.

On Wednesday morning, a spokesman for the Hamas Civil Defense Agency said that six people were killed when the Israeli forces opened fire on the crowds waiting near a GHF food distribution center in central Gaza.

He added that three others were killed near the GHF site in the southern city of Rafiha.

However, the Israeli army said that “he was not aware of any incidents with losses in those areas,” while GHF said that any of these incidents near their sites were wrong.

In Gaza City, the funerals were held for some of the 33 people whom the Ministry of Health said were killed during the day before the awaiting assistance.

“I say and repeat a million times,” Abu Muhammad told Reuters. “These aid points are not auxiliary points, these are death points.”

“As long as the residents have been deprived of food, this deadly choice is presented, unfortunately, because in the fighting area, it cannot improve,” said UNICEF spokesman James Elder, who just visited Gaza.

A civil defense spokesman also said that six other people, including a child, were killed in an air strike at an early house on Wednesday at the Nawyal Refugee camp, in central Gaza.

He said that five others were killed when he was homes in the nearby town of Deir Al -Bala.

More than 860 Palestinians were killed by the Israeli forces in Gaza during the Israeli conflict, which began when Israel launched an air campaign targeting Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Iran launched the remaining missiles towards Israel in response to this.

People in Gaza were divided into their assessments of what the ceasefire means to the region.

Some looked at the weakening of Iran, supporter of Hamas, the main regional Hamas, as a possible positive step towards achieving a truce in Gaza because it may force the group to reduce its demands.

However, others feared that the end of the conflict would allow Israel to redirect its military focus on Gaza and intensify its air and land operations.

A man in Khan Yunis, Nader Ramadan, told BBC that “everything is getting worse” in Gaza during the conflict.

“The (Israeli) bombing intensified, the damage increased, and the incursion into certain areas … We just felt destroyed,” he said.

Adel Abu Rida said that the most difficult thing was not to reach help. He said that the materials that are looted and sold at inflated prices, and civilians were suffering from an Israeli fire when trying to get food.

“What should we do?” He asked. “We are shot and killed all the time.”

In Israel, the army announced that seven of its soldiers were killed in the fighting in southern Gaza on Tuesday – the bloody incident since the ceasefire collapsed.

A spokesman for Brig Jin Evi Davirin said that an explosive device was connected to an armored vehicle in the Khan Yunis area, and that the explosion caused the car to fire. He added that the helicopters and the rescue forces made several failed attempts to save them.

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

The deaths renewed pressure on Netanyahu to agree on the ceasefire, with the leader of a super -Orthodox Jewish party in his ruling alliance, saying that Israel should end the war and bring all hostages.

“I don’t understand what we fight for and for what purpose … when the soldiers are killed all the time?” Moshe Jafni, from the Jew of the United Tirah, told the Israeli parliament.

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken into account.

At least 56,157 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Ministry of Health in the region.

Additional reports by Alice Cody in Jerusalem