CAIRO: A Hamas delegation was to meet Qatari and Egyptian officials in Cairo on Monday to discuss the continuation of a fragile Gaza ceasefire, a source close to negotiations said.
The Israeli military struck dozens of Hamas positions across Gaza on Sunday after the militants killed two of its soldiers and Israel accused the group of “a blatant violation” of the truce.
Hamas denied any knowledge of an attack and in turn asserted Israel had broken the ceasefire deal in place since 10 October.
The source said that the delegation, headed by Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya, would discuss “the dozens of airstrikes that killed dozens in the Gaza Strip” on Sunday.
Egypt and Qatar have long played a mediating role in indirect talks between Israel and Hamas, aiming to bring about an end to the war sparked by Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Hamas’ delegation will also meet Egyptian officials to discuss an upcoming intra-Palestinian dialogue hosted by Egypt and aiming “to unify the Palestinian factions,” the source said.
Egypt has hosted several such meetings between Palestinian factions, notably including the two main rival political movements, Islamist movement Hamas and Fatah, whose leader Mahmud Abbas is also president of the Palestinian Authority.
Hamas and Fatah have been opposed for decades, all the more so since the former’s violent ousting of the latter from the Gaza Strip in 2007.
“The dialogue aims to unify the Palestinian factions and discuss key issues, including the future of the Gaza Strip and the formation of the independent committee of experts that will assume management of the Strip,” the source said.
Under the US-brokered ceasefire deal an independent transitional authority, run by technocrats, has been proposed to administer Gaza.
Hamas said it did not wish to govern Gaza after two years of war, but its forces have moved back into areas from which Israel has withdrawn since the ceasefire.
Several Palestinian political officials recently raised the possibility of a group of unaffiliated Palestinian managers to run the Palestinian territory.
Another informed source said that “mediators’ contacts and efforts succeeded last night in restoring calm and implementing the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.”
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Hamas meets with Gaza truce mediators in Cairo
- Hamas delegation would discuss ‘the dozens of airstrikes that killed dozens in the Gaza Strip’ on Sunday
- Egypt and Qatar have long played a mediating role in indirect talks between Israel and Hamas
Deadly attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces on a Darfur town displace over 3,000, group says
- Misteriha is a stronghold of Arab tribal leader Musa Hilal, who also hails from the Rizeigat Arab tribe as do the majority of the members of the RSF
- In October, the RSF overran el-Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur, after 18 months of siege
CAIRO: Deadly attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces on a town in Sudan’s western Darfur region have displaced more than 3,000 people in the past few days, a doctors group said Thursday as the war in the African country nears its three-year mark with no end in sight.
The statement from the Sudan Doctors Network, which tracks the country’s brutal war, followed a statement earlier this week on Facebook in which the group said that the latest attack on Misteriha in North Darfur province left at least 28 people dead and 39 wounded.
The group said at the time the casualty tolls were an initial finding and that the real number of killed and wounded is likely higher.
The town is a stronghold of Arab tribal leader Musa Hilal who also hails from the Rizeigat Arab tribe as the majority of the members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF. Motives for the attack were not known and the RSF could not be contacted for comment.
The conflict between the RSF and the Sudanese military erupted into war in April 2023 that has so far killed at least 40,000 people and displaced 12 million, according to the World Health Organization. Aid groups say the true toll could be many times higher, as the fighting in vast and remote areas impedes access.
The doctors group said the displaced families fled from Misteriha in the night, without any belongings and now lack shelter and food. It said most of the displaced are women, including pregnant women, facing “extremely severe” health conditions. It appealed for “immediate and urgent assistance.”
The paramilitary RSF on Monday intensified their attack on the town and subsequently seized it, a takeover that is likely to strengthen the RSF fighters’ hold over Darfur.
In October, the RSF overran el-Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur, after 18 months of siege. The paramilitary killed more than 6,000 people between Oct. 25 and Oct. 27 in the city — atrocities that UN-backed experts say bore ” the hallmarks of genocide.”
Meanwhile, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said Thursday that his office has documented a sharp spike — more than two and a half times — in killings of civilians in 2025 in Sudan, compared with the previous year with thousands still missing or unidentified.
“This war is ugly. It’s bloody. And it’s senseless,” Türk said during a human rights council session in Geneva. “If much of the international community continues to act as a passive bystander, then something is fundamentally wrong with our collective moral compass.”
Repeated efforts by various countries and organizations to broker peace have failed to end the war.
The statement from the Sudan Doctors Network, which tracks the country’s brutal war, followed a statement earlier this week on Facebook in which the group said that the latest attack on Misteriha in North Darfur province left at least 28 people dead and 39 wounded.
The group said at the time the casualty tolls were an initial finding and that the real number of killed and wounded is likely higher.
The town is a stronghold of Arab tribal leader Musa Hilal who also hails from the Rizeigat Arab tribe as the majority of the members of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF. Motives for the attack were not known and the RSF could not be contacted for comment.
The conflict between the RSF and the Sudanese military erupted into war in April 2023 that has so far killed at least 40,000 people and displaced 12 million, according to the World Health Organization. Aid groups say the true toll could be many times higher, as the fighting in vast and remote areas impedes access.
The doctors group said the displaced families fled from Misteriha in the night, without any belongings and now lack shelter and food. It said most of the displaced are women, including pregnant women, facing “extremely severe” health conditions. It appealed for “immediate and urgent assistance.”
The paramilitary RSF on Monday intensified their attack on the town and subsequently seized it, a takeover that is likely to strengthen the RSF fighters’ hold over Darfur.
In October, the RSF overran el-Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur, after 18 months of siege. The paramilitary killed more than 6,000 people between Oct. 25 and Oct. 27 in the city — atrocities that UN-backed experts say bore ” the hallmarks of genocide.”
Meanwhile, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said Thursday that his office has documented a sharp spike — more than two and a half times — in killings of civilians in 2025 in Sudan, compared with the previous year with thousands still missing or unidentified.
“This war is ugly. It’s bloody. And it’s senseless,” Türk said during a human rights council session in Geneva. “If much of the international community continues to act as a passive bystander, then something is fundamentally wrong with our collective moral compass.”
Repeated efforts by various countries and organizations to broker peace have failed to end the war.
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