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Latest from Gaza: Ongoing Israeli Airstrikes and Ceasefire Negotiation Details


Israeli airstrikes continue to target the Gaza Strip, increasingly affecting civilian areas, while negotiations move slowly toward a new ceasefire agreement.

On Thursday, the Civil Defense announced that 12 people, most of them women and children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced individuals in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City.

Mohamed Al-Mughayyir, Director of Medical Supply at Civil Defense, stated: “Twelve people were killed, most of them children and women, and many others were injured in an Israeli strike on the Mustafa Hafez School, which was sheltering displaced people in Al-Rimal, west of Gaza City.”

The Israeli army responded by saying it would “attempt to verify” the reports from Gaza’s Civil Defense, including the bombing of the school.

Last night, the Israeli army announced the end of Operation “Chariots of Gideon” and the start of a new phase titled “The Lion Rises,” indicating a new stage in the war on Gaza.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said: “This maneuver aims to achieve two goals: bringing back the hostages and ensuring that Hamas no longer exists here. We will not retreat from this objective.”

He added: “The return of the hostages and victory—this is our mission. There is no room to give up on it or to compromise. We understand the price we’ve paid. I constantly see the images. Perhaps you will see that Hamas has not changed—it is always trying to go back to how things were.”

Negotiation Details

As for the negotiations, The New York Times reported, citing an Israeli security source and a Palestinian source close to Hamas, that the proposed truce deal would include the release of 10 living Israeli hostages and the transfer of 18 bodies, in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners.

According to the plan, the hostages would be released and the bodies transferred in five stages during a 60-day ceasefire.

The Israeli source said that, under the deal, Hamas would be asked to refrain from holding filmed “release ceremonies,” as it did during a previous ceasefire earlier this year.

On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that Israel had agreed to the necessary terms for a 60-day truce in the Gaza Strip.

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