'More massacres': Hamas rejects new round of Gaza talks, demands Biden plan implementation
Displaced Palestinians return to Bani Suhayla and neighbouring towns east of Khan Yunis following reports of Israeli forces withdrawing from the area in the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. Israel will send a delegation to the talks in Qatar.
The US has said it expects indirect talks to go ahead as planned in Qatar's capital Doha on Thursday, and that a ceasefire agreement was still possible. The Israeli government said it would send a delegation to Thursday's talks, but Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls Gaza, requested a workable plan to implement a proposal it has already accepted rather than more talks.
Armed groups of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad said they had attacked Israeli forces in several areas, while Palestinian health officials said Israeli strikes had killed at least 14 people so far on Wednesday, mostly in the centre and south. A van carried people injured during Israeli bombardment arrives at Nassr hospital in Khan Yunis, on the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Hamas wants an agreement to end the war and a withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza as a basic pre-condition for releasing hostages, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will only agree to a pause in fighting to allow as many hostages to return as possible.
In an attempt to deter a separate escalation between Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel, after the latter killed a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut's southern suburbs last month, Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to US President Joe Biden, landed in Beirut on Wednesday.
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