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07-10-2025
JERUSALEM/ GAZA STRIP: Negotiators converge on Egypt ahead of talks aimed at ending nearly two years of war on Gaza.
As Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu express hope the captives held in Gaza would be released in days, its army continues bombing Gaza, with the attacks having killed at least 70 Palestinians in the past 24 hours.
The Israeli army says it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, from where the Houthis frequently launch attacks they describe as a response to the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
Huge numbers turned out at pro-Palestinian rallies in Europe on Saturday, calling for an immediate end to the war in Gaza and the release of activists on board a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the territory.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 67,139 people and wounded 169,583 since October 2023. Thousands more are believed to be buried under the rubble. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, attacks and about 200 were taken captive.
Netanyahu squeezed by far right over ceasefire talks
The prime minister faces mounting pressure from all sides of Israel’s fractured political landscape, torn between his far-right coalition partners demanding the war continue and captives’ families urging him to accept a deal, experts say.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Menachem Klein, professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University, said the proposed agreement has thrown the Israeli right wing into “crisis”.
“Israel faces a rethinking. The extreme right wing has to say goodbye to its dreams of achieving evacuation of Gaza and settlements inside Gaza,” Klein said. “The Israeli right wing is in a crisis, and the same goes for several army officers in Gaza.”
Netanyahu remains beholden to the ultranationalist parties Religious Zionism, headed by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and Jewish Power, led by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who have threatened to collapse the government if Israel agrees to end the war before achieving what they call “total victory” in Gaza.
“For the Israeli right wing, this is the dream coalition. They will never have a better one,” Klein said. “I assume Netanyahu promised Smotrich and Ben-Gvir to spoil the agreement after the hostages are back home and resume the war.”
The Health Ministry in Gaza has just released its latest daily update on the number of casualties in Israel’s nearly two-year war.
In a statement, it said the bodies of 65 people, including two who were recently recovered, had arrived in hospitals across the besieged territory over the latest 24-hour reporting period. Another 153 people were wounded.
The figures bring the number of people killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the war to at least 67,139, with 169,583 others wounded,
Many victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, where ambulance and civil defence crews are unable to reach them, the ministry said.
US and Israel ‘increasing pressure’ on Hamas
As talks over Gaza are set to take place in Egypt, Tamer Qarmout, associate professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, says Israel and the US appear determined to exert pressure on Hamas to move the process forward.
“The Israelis and the Americans want to put Hamas under maximum pressure to expedite the process,” he said, adding that there is a global shift in public opinion over Gaza that is also creating pressure on the US and Israel.
“There is a critical junction with shifting public opinion like South African dynamics when apartheid collapsed,” he told media. (Int’l News Desk)
