\u201cNegotiations are going very well. We have a breakthrough,\u201d the source said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere are issues still remaining, but talks are ongoing, and we remain hopeful,\u201d the source added. <\/p>\n
The US Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs Barbara Leaf is in Doha for meetings with Qatar\u2019s leadership, a person familiar with the meetings said. <\/p>\n
Asked about the status of the negotiations Israel\u2019s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant commented at\u00a0a news conference on Thursday that \u201cevery channel is a possible channel.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing should be clear \u2013 we have a goal and I trust the State of Israel and the IDF\u2026 and we\u2019ll keep doing every effort to bring the hostages and the missing back,\u201d Gallant said. <\/p>\n
Hamas abducted more than 200 people and killed 1,400 others, including soldiers and civilians, in southern Israel on October 7.\u00a0The hostages include nationals from countries including Mexico, Brazil, the United States, Germany and Thailand \u2013 as well as Israeli civilians and soldiers.\u00a0The large-scale incursion represented the most deadly attack by militants in Israel\u2019s 75-year history, and\u00a0Israeli authorities have faced strong criticism for having failed to anticipate it. <\/p>\n
In response,\u00a0Israel\u00a0launched a heavy bombardment of Gaza and imposed a complete blockade on the enclave. Israeli strikes have killed at least 7,028 Palestinians, including 2,913 children, according to\u00a0a report by\u00a0the\u00a0Hamas-controlled\u00a0Palestinian Ministry of Health. About 1,600 people are missing under the rubble of\u00a0flattened buildings, with many of them feared dead. The ministry said on Friday the actual death toll in Gaza is likely to be much higher. <\/p>\n
Human Rights Watch said on Monday Israel\u2019s\u00a0\u201ccollective punishment\u201d\u00a0of Palestinians in Gaza amounts to a war crime. <\/p>\n
Qatar and Egypt have been mediating between Israel, the US and Hamas to release\u00a0the hostages held by the militant group. Four hostages \u2013 two Americans and two Israelis \u2013 have been freed so far. <\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged on Wednesday that he will \u201chave to give answers\u201d for his government\u2019s intelligence failures. The comments marked the first time he has talked about his own role in the security breakdownsince October 7. <\/p>\n
This\u00a0story is developing and will be updated.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n \u201cNegotiations are going very well. We have a breakthrough,\u201d the source said. \u201cThere are issues still remaining, but talks are ongoing, and we remain hopeful,\u201d the source added. The US Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs Barbara Leaf is in Doha for meetings with Qatar\u2019s leadership, a person familiar with the meetings said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}