Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) chief Ibrahim Kalin on Sunday met with Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas Movement’s Political Bureau, and his delegation in the Qatari capital of Doha, Anadulo news agency reported.
Security sources told Anadulo that, during the meeting, Ismail Haniyeh expressed satisfaction with the Turkish efforts in the negotiation process with ‘Israel’.
“They also discussed the current state of negotiations, ongoing efforts for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the primary responsibility for achieving a ceasefire, and the issue of allowing more humanitarian aid to be delivered.”
Haniyeh also tackled the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip with Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel in a telephone Saturday, according to the Palestinian resistance group.
Haniyeh received the call from Kamel to discuss “the course of ongoing negotiations aimed at reaching a ceasefire,” it said.
The Egyptian intelligence chief also extended condolences to Haniyeh for the death of his elder sister and several family members in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City last week.
Indirect talks between Hamas and ‘Israel’ mediated by the US, Qatar and Egypt have so far failed to agree on a permanent ceasefire that would allow a prisoner swap between Israelis and Palestinians due to the Zionist aggression of halting the genocidal war which has so far claimed around 38 thousand martyrs.
Hamas official Osama Hamdan stressed that the movement is open to positively react with any ceasefire proposal, reiterating that the Resistance group welcomes Biden’s initiative in this regard.
Hamdan underlined that Hamas wants the ceasefire agreement to be comprehensive and include that halt of the Zionist war, withdrawal of occupation troops, siege break and the Strip’s reconstruction.
Seven Palestinians killed in Israeli shelling on Rafah and Gaza City
Seven Palestinian civilians were killed and several others injured this morning in Israeli airstrikes targeting a house west of Rafah and another in the Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, marking the 268th day of ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that Israeli warplanes bombed a house belonging to the Za’arab family west of Rafah in southern Gaza, resulting in the killing of six civilians, including children, and injuring others.
Additionally, Israeli artillery shelled southern areas of Rafah, causing casualties among civilians, alongside targeting another area in central Rafah. Explosions and intense gunfire were reported in the neighborhoods of Tel al-Sultan and Saudi west of Rafah.
Israeli warplanes also targeted the towns of Abasan and Khuza’a east of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
In another attack, one civilian was killed and several others injured when Israeli warplanes bombed a residential apartment in the Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City, amidst ongoing intense airstrikes in the area.
Israeli artillery further targeted homes in the vicinity of the Barcelona Park in Tel al-Hawa neighborhood southwest of Gaza City, with smoke rising from the area.
Furthermore, Israeli warplanes and artillery carried out heavy strikes on the neighborhoods of Tuffah and Shujaiya east of Gaza City, and the Sabra neighborhood in the center of the city. The attacks resulted in additional casualties and injuries among civilians, with medics facing difficulty reaching them due to continuous gunfire from Israeli drones targeting anything in motion.
Simultaneously, WAFA correspondent reported that Israeli military tanks are currently surrounding several families inside their homes near the Al-Shuhada Mosque in Shujaiya neighborhood, amidst heavy firing from drones.
The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 7, 2023 has claimed the lives of 37,834 Palestinians, predominantly children and women, and left 86,858 others injured.
Thousands more remain trapped either under rubble or on the streets, as Israeli occupation forces obstruct the access of rescue teams and civil defense crews to reach them.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian resistance groups continued confronting the Zionist aggression on Gaza, inflicting more losses upon the enemy troops.
Al-Quds Brigades released the footage of the operation targeting a Zionist force inside a building with a tunnel opening, in a prepared ambush in the Shuja’iya neighborhood, east of Gaza.
Soroka Hospital announced receiving 5 Israeli soldiers seriously injured during clashes with the resistance in the Gaza Strip during the past two days.
Al-Quds Brigades announced destroying a Zionist military vehicle by detonating a high-explosive ground device near Al-Hidaya Mosque in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.
Al-Quds Brigades and Al-Qassam fighters targeted the Israeli occupation forces in Al-Shujaia with Tandem and mortar shells.
Source: Al-Manar English Website
