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Gaza, from Netanyahu OK to US proposal. Hamas: "We are not satisfied".

The US proposes a 60-day ceasefire agreement with Hamas, involving the release of 9 hostages and 18 kidnapped bodies

Cartelli nella “piazza degli ostaggi” a Tel Aviv, Israele, il 28 maggio 2025 con i volti di ostaggi nelle mani di Hamas da 600 giorni a Gaza, chiedendo il loro rilascio e la fine della guerra (Ap Photo/Leo Correa)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly accepted the proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip presented by US envoy Steve Witkoff. This was reported by the Israeli media. Israel 'endorsed and supported' Donald Trump's proposed truce plan for Gaza, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said. Netanyahu reportedly also communicated his decision to the families of the hostages; Hamas also confirmed that it had received the proposal and was studying it.

The chief negotiator of Hamas, Khalil al-Hayya, will hold a press conference at 9 p.m. local time - 8 p.m. in Italy - to comment on the American proposal.

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The new US proposal for a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas would provide for the release of nine live hostages - one less than the previous offer - and 18 bodies of abductees, according to several Jewish media reports, including the Times of Israel.

According to the rumours, the hostages would be released in two groups within a week - without specifying if and how many Palestinian prisoners would be freed - and Israel would commit to a 60-day truce, during which negotiations to end the war would take place.

Should no agreement be reached at the end of this period, Israel would have the option of resuming the fighting or extending the ceasefire in exchange for more hostages,

The media considers this detail crucial, as the main disagreement in the negotiations would be Hamas' insistence on an agreement to end the war permanently, and Israel's rejection of Hamas' demand to dismantle it.

According to reports, in the agreement the responsibility for humanitarian aid would revert to the UN and the IDF would withdraw from the areas occupied in their last expanded operation.

But Hamas freezes everyone: 'The US proposal accepted by Israel does not meet our demands,' says the leader of the movement.

According to the Islamist movement, the toll of Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since dawn today has risen to at least 70 Palestinians killed. This was reported by al Jazeera.

Gaza hospital: 'Idf evacuates doctors and patients by force'

Meanwhile, the Al-Awda hospital in the northern Gaza Strip said from the front that Israeli forces are forcibly evacuating its premises in the Palestinian territory, where the army continues its offensive. "Israeli occupation forces are currently forcibly evacuating patients and medical staff from Al-Awda Hospital in Tel al-Zaatar, the only facility still operating in the northern Gaza Strip," the hospital said in a note. Interviewed by the Afp news agency, the Israeli army did not immediately react.

Media: Hamas unhappy with latest US proposal

Hamas 'is not satisfied' with the new proposal put forward by White House envoy Steve Witkoff. Axios reports this, citing a source close to the details of the negotiations. The same source stressed that the new proposal is "more skewed in favour of Israel" than the previous ones and "does not include a clear American guarantee that the temporary ceasefire will lead to a permanent ceasefire". The source further explained that "the new proposal does not clearly state that if negotiations were to extend beyond 60 days, the ceasefire would also continue and Israel would not be able to violate it unilaterally as it did in March." Senior Hamas officials have not yet given a negative response to the proposal, but have reportedly expressed 'disappointment with its content'.

Media: '10 hostages free in US plan, does not promise end of war'

Israeli media are correcting initial reports on the details of the new US proposal, claiming that the plan would include the release of 10 live hostages and not nine as previously reported. Similarly, the pan-Arab Al Ghad channel reports that the draft was presented overnight to both Hamas and Israel and that it includes a 60-day ceasefire, during which 10 living hostages and 18 bodies of hostages would be released: half on the first day of the truce and the other half on the seventh day. In return, Israel would release 125 Palestinian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism, 1,111 Gazans detained since the beginning of the war, and 180 bodies of Palestinians currently held by Israel. An Israeli official confirmed to the Times of Israel the details of the new proposal, reiterating that it would not contain the Israeli promise to end the war

Hamas: "19 dead in a raid on a refugee camp in Gaza"

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'In a series of Israeli attacks on residential buildings in the Bureij refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip, 19 people were killed, writes Al Jazeera quoting the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in the Strip. Three houses were targeted consecutively without any warning, the broadcaster writes. This attack brings today's death toll to at least 37, according to the Palestinian ministry.

Israel authorises 22 settlements in the West Bank

Israel has declared that it will authorise the establishment of 22 Jewish settlements in the West Bank, including the legalisation of outposts already built without government permission. The majority of the international community considers the settlements illegal and an obstacle to resolving the decades-long conflict.

Defence Minister Israel Katz stated that the decision to establish the settlements"strengthens our hold on Judea and Samaria", using the biblical term for the West Bank, "cconsolidates our historical right to the Land of Israel and constitutes an overwhelming response to Palestinian terrorism".

He added that it is also 'a strategic move that prevents the creation of a Palestinian state that would endanger Israel'.

Oxfam, 2 million people locked up in less than 20% of Gaza

"Along with the ongoing brutal attack on Gaza, Israel is using a systematic displacement campaign to confine more than 2 million civilians in 5 overcrowded coastal areas devoid of any services, which constitute less than 20% of the Strip's territory. This, combined with the use of starvation as a weapon of war, reveals a strategy to fully occupy Gaza, not to neutralise specific military targets'.

This is the alarm launched today by Oxfam, more than 600 days after the start of the conflict. In fact, a new analysis by Oxfam reveals how since the ceasefire was broken on 18 March, Israel has issued more than 30 orders to displace the population, almost one every two days, involving more than 600,000 people, even several times.

The forced evacuations affected 68 out of 79 inhabited areas, which when added to the inaccessible Israeli military zones, cover an area equal to 80% of Gaza.

"This situation is making it virtually impossible for the population to find a safe haven," said Paolo Pezzati, spokesperson for humanitarian crises at Oxfam Italy. "It is clear that Israel's plan is not simply to neutralise a threat, but to implement a complete displacement of the population, and this is a war crime. For more than 600 days, Israel declared that it only wanted to strike Hamas, while mass killings of innocent civilians were taking place every day. This is not an anti-terrorist operation, as Israel claims, but the systematic internment in ever smaller enclaves of an entire people, constantly kept under threat'. In the meantime, Israel has extended its military presence along five so-called 'security corridors' - Filadelfi, Murag, Kisufim, Netzarim and Mefalsim - that divide Gaza into five areas isolated from each other, separating the north from the south and further restricting the population's ability to move. This is in addition to what has already been openly stated by the Israeli authorities for the distribution of food aid, which is only taking place within hubs set up in fenced-off areas manned externally by the IDF and internally by private security contractors. "This proposal will turn the civilian population into prisoners and effectively consolidate the military occupation," Pezzati adds. "It is a terrifying prospect and completely contrary to any humanitarian principle." "This campaign of annihilation must end as soon as possible. Western governments must go beyond mere declarations of intent, which make them de facto accomplices, and exert real pressure on Israel to break the ongoing siege and any plans to annex Gaza or the West Bank," Pezzati concludes.

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