
A man stands amid the rubble of buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City. AFP
Since morning, two others were killed and several wounded in Israeli raids on Palestinians in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City.
“Emergency services are still unable to reach many casualties and dead bodies trapped under the rubble or scattered on roads across the war-torn Strip, as Israeli occupation forces continue to obstruct the movement of the ambulance and civil defence crews," medical sources told WAFA news agency.
More casualties are being transported to hospitals in Gaza City as amid the nonstop Israeli airstrikes. pic.twitter.com/OqTK5vlXLX
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 13, 2025
Local sources reported that the occupation warplanes also targeted a group of citizens in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood, killing six more civilians and injuring others.
Despite talks of a ceasefire agreement around the corner, Israel continues to perpetrate massacres against innocent civilians in Gaza. This was the scene a couple of minutes ago following an Israeli airstrike on the al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/2QrEgipc4u
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) January 13, 2025
According to WAFA, 71 other Palestinians were injured in the past 24 hours.
The health ministry said at least 109,731 people have been wounded in more than 15 months of the Israeli genocidal war on the strip.
On the other side, three Israeli soldiers were killed and several others injured after they were targetted by Palestinian militants in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, Al-Jazeera reported.
Doha ceasefire talks
On Sunday, Qatar delivered a finalized draft of a phased ceasefire deal to end the 15-month-old Israeli war in the Gaza Strip to Israel and Hamas for approval, according to sources close to the negotiations.
Sources told Reuters and the AP that a breakthrough in talks was reached in Doha on Sunday following indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas mediated by Israel's spy chiefs, President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy, Egyptian officials, and Qatar’s prime minister.
A possible deal is now on the table, one of these sources confirmed to the AP.
Israeli and Hamas negotiators will now take it back to their leaders for final approval, said the source.
However, a Hamas official told the AP several hurdles in the talks must be overcome.
Several contentious issues still need to be resolved, including an Israeli agreement to end the war and details about the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the prisoner-captive swap, explained the Hamas official.
Hamas and other Palestinian resistance groups had demanded a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and an immediate end to the war on the strip. Still, they agreed in recent weeks to a phased deal.
An Egyptian official told the AP that progress was made in the talks, but the matter might not be resolved for a few days.
According to the Egyptian official, both sides want to reach a deal before Trump's inauguration on 20 January.
West Bank
In the occupied West Bank, the Israeli occupation forces and settlers continued pillaging Palestinian lands and villages.
The Israeli army issued an order for the demolition of a sheep barn in the Khallet Al-Fara area near Hebron to expand the nearby Israeli settlement of Otneil.
Ibrahim Al-Harini, a resident of Khallet Al-Fara, said the demolition order includes his modest tin-made home near the barn.
In tandem, Israeli settlers bulldozed the main road connecting Ramallah and Nablus through five villages - Qablan, Yitma, Jurish, Talfit, Jalud and Qaryut - south of Nablus to make room for the expansion of new settlements in the area.
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