Israeli forces killed dozens of people in Gaza, ceasefire negotiations will continue Israel-Palestine conflict news

At least 35 Palestinians were killed several times Israel’s attack on Gaza as high-level negotiators prepare to resume stalled ceasefire talks since morning.

Israeli forces killed at least 19 people in the central Gaza Strip on Friday, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum said Friday would be “another bloody day” after a 24-hour period in which at least 71 Palestinians were killed in 34 Israeli airstrikes, reporting from Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. Gaza Government Media Office.

Abu Azzoum said the shooting in Deir al-Balah suggests a “potential military advance by Israeli ground forces” in response to a Hamas attack on an Israeli tank in the area.

Israeli warplanes destroyed buildings in the center of the strip, killing journalist Omar al-Diraoui in his home in al-Zawaida – the second journalist killed in 24 hours.

On Thursday, it was confirmed that photographer Hassan al-Kishawi was killed in an Israeli attack.

Following the death toll, the Gaza Government Media Office revised the death toll journalists 202 were killed in the enclave from the beginning of the nearly 15-month war.

Meanwhile, Israel continued its military offensive in northern Gaza, Abu Azzoum said that Israeli forces ordered the immediate evacuation of the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya.

The Israelis also woke up to the attack early Friday and reportedly intercepted a rocket fired by the army. YemenAir raid sirens were set off in Jerusalem and central Israel.

Ceasefire negotiations will continue

Ceasefire talks were expected to resume on Friday as the attacks continued.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he had authorized a delegation of the Mossad intelligence agency, the Shin Bet domestic security agency and the military to continue talks in Qatar.

Sami al-Arian, director of the Islamic and Global Affairs Center of Istanbul Zaim University, said that Hamas may be ready to withdraw one of its main demands, the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli forces from Gaza.

“There has been a lot of pressure from the mediators, especially the Qataris and the Egyptians, to be flexible on these terms,” ​​he told Al Jazeera.

“They have assured the resistance, Hamas and other groups that Israel will eventually withdraw.”

However, Ori Goldberg, a political analyst based in Tel Aviv, told Al Jazeera that he sees no reason for optimism that a ceasefire will be agreed upon in the talks, given the lack of significant international pressure from both sides.

“As far as I know, Hamas is interested in a deal, but not overly so, because as Israel continues its genocide in Gaza, its recruitment rates are increasing,” he said.

“Of course, the Israeli public is interested in the agreement. (But) the Israeli government? Not so much – the war serves his interests.”

The main mediators, Qatar, Egypt and the United States, have been trying to reach a long-term agreement in indirect negotiations for months.

In the first three days of 2025, the death toll in Gaza since Israel launched its war on the enclave on October 7, 2023, following Hamas-led attacks, stands at nearly 46,000.

The war has caused widespread destruction and displaced nearly 90 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million people, most of them repeatedly.

The forces led by Hamas killed about 1200 people and took about 250 prisoners in their attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023.

About 100 captives are still in Gaza, but at least a third are believed to be dead.