(2 May 2024)
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Southern Israel, view of Gaza Strip – 2 May 2024
1. Various of airdrops of aid over Gaza
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Southeastern Gaza Strip – 2 May 2024
2. Smoke in distance from direction of Rafah, as seen from makeshift camp of Muwasi
STORYLINE:
Aid was airdropped into the Gaza Strip on Thursday, while international pressure grows to reach a cease-fire deal between Hamas and Israel.
Hamas said on Thursday it was sending a delegation to Egypt as soon as possible to continue talks, in the latest sign of progress in the fragile cease-fire process.
The group’s supreme leader, Ismail Haniyeh, said he had spoken to Egypt’s intelligence chief and Hamas negotiators would travel to Cairo "to complete the ongoing discussions with the aim of working forward for an agreement.”
But chances for the deal are entangled with the question of whether Israel can accept an end to the war without reaching its stated goal of destroying Hamas.
The stakes in the cease-fire negotiations were made clear in a new U.N. report that said if the war in Gaza stops today, it will still take until 2040 to rebuild all the homes that have been destroyed by nearly seven months of Israeli bombardment and ground offensives in the territory.
It warned that the impact of the damage to the economy will set back development for generations and will only get worse with every month fighting continues.
AP video shot by Joeal Calupitan and Mohammad Jahjouh
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