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Israel agrees to resume Gaza ceasefire talks

2024-08-09

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On August 3, at the Hamama School in the Sheikh Radwan community of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, local people looked at the ruins after the Israeli army attacked. Xinhua News Agency photo

The Israeli Prime Minister's Office issued a statement in the early hours of the 9th saying that Israel agreed to resume ceasefire negotiations in Gaza and plans to send a negotiating delegation on the 15th of this month.

The statement said Israel will send a negotiating delegation to a location to be determined and finalize details of the implementation of the framework agreement.

The leaders of Qatar, Egypt and the United States said in a joint statement late on the 8th that the three countries called on Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to resume negotiations in Doha or Cairo on the 15th to bridge all remaining differences and immediately begin to implement the agreement.

Since the outbreak of a new round of Israeli-Palestinian conflict on October 7 last year, Israel and Hamas have held several rounds of negotiations. Since the two sides reached a brief ceasefire in November last year in exchange for the release of some detained persons, there has been no progress.

Editor/Zhou Chao