(15 Aug 2024)
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Jerusalem – 15 August 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Tia Goldenberg, The Associated Press:
"International mediators are holding a new round of talks in Qatar aimed at halting the war in Gaza and bringing home scores of hostages held there. There are still sticking points between Israel and Hamas, including over whether Israel will maintain troops in certain parts of Gaza or whether any ceasefire becomes permanent. Hamas, meanwhile, hasn’t said whether it is participating in the talks or not. It accuses Israel of adding new demands to an evolving U.S.-backed proposal that the sides are weighing. Israel denies this, and it has sent a delegation. Multiple rounds of previous negotiations between the sides throughout the 10-month-long war have failed. But reaching a deal now could help avert a wider regional conflict that might draw in Iran and the militant group Hezbollah into the fighting. The talks come as the death toll in Gaza reaches a grim milestone of 40,000 dead, according to local health officials."
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Khan Younis, Gaza – 8 August 2024
2. Explosion, plumes of smoke rising into sky
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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 8 August 2024
3. Various of families with their belongings fleeing from east of Khan Younis
4. Various of smoke rising after Israeli airstrike, families fleeing
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 3 August 2024
5. Various of debris after Israeli airstrike hit a school, people gathered
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Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip – 14 August 2024
6. Various of wrapped bodies on the ground
7. Various of people carrying bodies
STORYLINE:
International mediators were set to hold a new round of talks Thursday aimed at halting the Israel-Hamas war and securing the release of scores of hostages, with a potential deal seen as the best hope of heading off an even larger regional conflict.
The United States, Qatar and Egypt were to meet with an Israeli delegation in Qatar as the Palestinian death toll from the 10-month-old war surpassed 40,000.
A Palestinian official said Hamas would not take part in Thursday’s talks but that its senior officials, who reside in Qatar, were ready to discuss any proposals from the mediators, as they have in past rounds.
A cease-fire in Gaza would likely calm tensions across the region and may persuade Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah to refrain from retaliatory strikes on Israel after the killing of a top Hezbollah commander in an Israeli airstrike and of Hamas’ top political leader in an explosion in Iran’s capital.
The mediators have spent months trying to hammer out a three-phase plan in which Hamas would release scores of hostages captured in the Oct. 7 attack that triggered the war in exchange for a lasting cease-fire, the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the release of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
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