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Hamas says its negotiators have opened a new round of talks aimed at ending the war in Gaza, hours after Israel launched a major offensive.

Taher al-Nounou, an adviser to the head of Hamas, told the BBC a new round of negotiations had officially begun in Doha on Saturday. There were no preconditions from either side, and all issues were on the table for discussion.

Israel Katz, the Israeli defence minister, said Hamas negotiators were returning to indirect talks in Qatar to seek a deal on the hostages.

Katz called the move a "departure from the recalcitrant position they had taken up until that moment".

It came after Israel's military said on its Hebrew X that troops had been mobilised for "Operation Gideon's Chariots" to seize "strategic areas" of Gaza and free hostages.

In similar posts on its English-language X , it said it would not stop operating "until Hamas is no longer a threat and all our hostages are home", and that it had "struck over 150 terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip" in 24 hours.

The Times of Israel said that "Gideon's Chariots" - a reference to a biblical warrior - would see the IDF take and control territory, move civilians to the south of the Strip, attack Hamas, and prevent it from taking control of aid supplies.

Thousands of Israeli troops, including soldiers and reservists, are expected to enter Gaza as the operation ramps up in the coming days.

Israel imposed an aid blockade on the Strip in March after the breakdown of a two-month ceasefire. US President Donald Trump said on Friday that "a lot of people were starving" in Gaza.

Rescuers from the Hamas-run civil defence, Gaza's main emergency service, said Israeli attacks have killed over 300 people since Thursday.

Reuters news agency reported at least 146 Palestinians had been killed over the past 24 hours and many more injured, citing local health authorities.

Residents in many parts of northern and central Gaza have been told to leave their homes or places of shelter - an order aid workers say is almost impossible because many have already been repeatedly made homeless during the war.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this month said that Israel was preparing an "intense entry into Gaza" to capture and hold territory.

His government said it would not commence until Trump had completed a tour of the Middle East. The US president left the region on Friday.

UN Secretary General António Guterres said he was "alarmed" by Israel's latest offensive in Gaza.
"I reject the repeated displacement of the population – along with any question of forced displacement outside of Gaza," he said on X.

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk echoed the condemnation, adding that Israel's operation is "tantamount to ethnic cleansing.".

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani both called for a permanent ceasefire to stop the killing in Gaza on Saturday.

Victoria Rose, a British reconstructive surgeon working at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that her team were "exhausted" and staff had lost a "considerable amount of weight".

"The children are really thin," she said. "We've got a lot of youngsters whose teeth have fallen out.

"A lot of them have quite significant burn injuries and with this level of malnutrition they're so much more prone to infection and they've got so much less capacity to heal.".

A UN-backed assessment published on Monday found Gaza's population to be at "critical risk" of famine.

The Israeli government has repeatedly rejected claims there is a food shortage in Gaza.

Israel launched a military campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group's cross-border attack on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage. Hamas still holds 58 hostages.

At least 53,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7geg3lvz1o

They better negotiate ASAP to avoid further casualties

Release the hostages!!!, so that innocent gazans can return to their homes.

No, they better continue the fight

To me they release both living and dead hostages so that we can then ask what Israel is looking for if they continue to fight afterward

Obiedun:
To me they release both living and dead hostages so that we can then ask what Israel is looking for if they continue to fight afterward

If they release them today, tomorrow hamas is gone. Israel will flatten Gaza completely.

Hamas know what they are doing actually.

Israel know hamas hideout but because of hostages they won't bomb the area

I have said this over and over again..
The Children of ISRAEL are the only people and Nation that know how to Speak the Language TERRORISTS understand

As soon as Hell began to rain Gaza, the TERRORISTS who have been forming hard began to Shout, Call ISRAEL! CALL ISRAEL! We want to Negotiate.


As a person who has some little knowledge of how ISRAEL operates, I tell you, Negotiate or no Negotiate Gaza is Gone!
Negotiate of No Negotiate, Hamas TERRORISTS will be wiped off gaza.

The best deal Hamas and its TERRORISTS leaders will get is to release the Hostages and Expel themselves from Gaza forever.

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Hamas needs to be completely eliminated for peace to reign. Gaza needs to be flattened. I hope Israel won’t stop the good work they are doing right now.

Why resume talk?

Eye don clear

I pray it yield to positive results.

Take it or leave it.

Current Hamas is being sponsored by the Zionist

Hamas must be erase from this earth surface

Release all hostage man

Useless Hamas. They only know how to attack civilians.

Proudlyngwa:
Take it or leave it.

Current Hamas is being sponsored by the Zionist

And you're the middleman

Give hamas wotowoto


Omo it is true that the only language this people understand is terror for terror

Imagine Palestinians burying their death and not even campaigning against hamas to leave them alone and release hostages

Their stubbornness is just like playing into Israel hand of having enough reason to keep grabbing their lands

These hamas are not intelligent at all. Palestinians should fight hamas. Hamas just using you peoplenas shield everytime. Wake up

Note: make una no forget that everywhere was kinda peaceful until one faithful daybinnoctober 7 when hamas unleashed terror on hundreds of Israeli and other nationals. They woke up a sleeping giant. Don't forget there was rejoicing among Palestinians all over gaza. Don't forget

No, make dem no negotiate. Israel must pummel them. They're not like Nigeria army that forgive and recruits bandit to them as spies

Obiedun:
To me they release both living and dead hostages so that we can then ask what Israel is looking for if they continue to fight afterward

if they release dead hostages, they will also die so they won't pose future threats again. Why must they start a war they can't fight? Why must they kill innocent Israel and letter turn around shouting genocide, since they don't want to live in peace, they will never experience peace

Ok Hamas is just realizing the serious romance between Trump and Natenyahu over total take over of Gaza. What were they thinking before now? But the movement has started and the destination is plugged in. Good luck to them I. Their negotiation.

Lol.. Body go tell una

This is how terrorists should be shivering in Nigeria but guess what Nigeria has become a haven for breeding terrorists under APC

Modified

So they can't withstand the pressure

Obiedun:
To me they release both living and dead hostages so that we can then ask what Israel is looking for if they continue to fight afterward

1. Release all the hostages
2. Those who partake in the October 7 massacre should surrender.

This is what we are supposed to do killer Fulani people

They are cowards at the end, when they face superior firepower… they will humble

obedience4:


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7geg3lvz1o

No mercy, finish them, let no repeat of October 7th.

Proudlyngwa:
Take it or leave it.

Current Hamas is being sponsored by the Zionist

I hope you won't cry genocide again then

obedience4:


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7geg3lvz1o

Spain and Italy are useless people. God bless Israel