The Israel Defense Forces have reportedly pulled out all their ground troops from the southern
Gaza Strip overnight, marking an end to four months of fighting in the Khan Younis area. Only one brigade remains in the Gaza Strip responsible for securing the Netzarim Corridor, report the Times of Israel . The development comes while negotiators prepared for another round of talks on a cease-fire today, six months into the war that has brought utter devastation to the region. A Hamas delegation is expected to arrive in
Egypt to join the cease-fire talks, the militant group said Saturday. READ MORE:
Israeli fires officers for role on strike that killed Gaza aid workers amid claims bag mistaken for gun The Qatari-funded Hamad City in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip after an Israeli raid ( Image: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock) The Netzarim Corridor, where the Nahal brigade reportedly remains, stretches from the Be’eri area in southern Israel to the coast of the Strip, allowing raids in central and northern Gaza while preventing
Palestinians from returning to the northern part of the Strip. Additionally, the Netzarim corridor enables humanitarian organizations to deliver aid directly to northern Gaza. Pressure has been mounting against Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu and his government, with tens of thousands of Israelis flooding
JERUSALEM in anti-government
protests. Inside Gaza, the toll of Israel’s offensive is measured in tens of thousands of deaths and more than a million Palestinians displaced. US President
Joe Biden has sent CIA Director Bill Burns to Egypt for the cease-fire talks. The talks come days after international condemnation of Israeli airstrikes that killed seven humanitarian workers with the World Central Kitchen charity. The Israeli
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USA, go to The Mirror US Some Israel allies including the US consider halting arms sales, with Biden warning Netanyahu that future US support for the war depends on swift implementation of new steps to protect civilians and aid workers. The death toll from the war in Gaza has surpassed 33,000, according to the territory's Health Ministry. Its toll doesn't differentiate between civilians and combatants, but it has said
Women and children make up the majority of the dead. Israel blames Hamas for civilian deaths in Gaza, accusing it of operating in residential communities and public areas like hospitals . Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah now holds more than half of the territory's 2.3 million people, and Israel's vow to carry out a ground offensive there has caused weeks of dread and warnings even from Israel's top ally, the
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