Zionists bombard Gaza City
CAIRO: Zionist entity planes and tanks kept bombarding eastern areas of Gaza City overnight, killing at least 11 people, witnesses and medics said on Tuesday, with Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya due in Cairo for talks to revive a US-backed ceasefire plan. The latest round of indirect talks in Qatar ended in deadlock in late July with Zionist entity and Palestinian group Hamas trading blame over the lack of progress on a US proposal for a 60-day truce and hostage release deal.
Zionist entity has since said it will launch a new offensive and seize control of Gaza City, which it captured shortly after the war's outbreak in October 2023 before pulling out. Zionist entity Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to expand military control over Gaza, expected to be launched in October, has increased a global outcry over the widespread devastation, displacement and hunger afflicting Gaza's 2.2 million people. It has also stirred criticism in Zionist entity, with the military chief of staff warning it could endanger surviving hostages and prove a death trap for Zionist soldiers. It has also raised fears of further displacement and hardship among the estimated one million Palestinians in the Gaza City region.
Foreign ministers of 24 countries including Britain, Canada, Australia, France and Japan, said on Tuesday the humanitarian crisis in Gaza had reached 'unimaginable levels' and urged Zionist entity to allow unrestricted aid into the enclave.
A Palestinian man carries a wounded youth, evacuated from the site of a Zionist strike, west of Gaza City on August 12, 2025.
Zionist entity denies responsibility for hunger in Gaza, accusing Hamas of stealing aid. It says it has taken steps to increase deliveries, including pausing fighting for parts of the day in some areas and announcing protected routes for aid convoys.
A Palestinian official with knowledge of the mediated ceasefire talks said Hamas was prepared to return to the negotiating table, and the leaders who were visiting Cairo on Tuesday would reaffirm that stance. 'Hamas believes negotiation is the only way to end the war and is open to discuss any ideas that would secure an end to the war,' the official, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter, told Reuters.
Egypt's state-affiliated Al Qahera News television said the Hamas delegates have arrived in Egypt 'for consultations on ceasefire talks'. However, the gaps between the sides appear to remain wide on key issues, including the extent of any Zionist military withdrawal and demands for Hamas to disarm. A Hamas official told Reuters on Tuesday the Islamist movement was ready to relinquish Gaza governance on behalf of a non-partisan committee, but it would not relinquish its arms before a Palestinian state is established. Netanyahu, whose far-right ultranationalist coalition allies want an outright Zionist takeover of all of Gaza, has vowed the war will not end until Hamas is eradicated.
On Tuesday, Gaza's health ministry said that 89 Palestinians had been killed by Zionist fire in the past 24 hours. Witnesses and medics said Zionist bombardments overnight killed seven people in two houses in Gaza City's Zeitoun suburb and another four in an apartment building in the city center.
In the south of Gaza, five people, including a couple and their child, were killed by a Zionist airstrike on a house in the city of Khan Younis and four others by a strike on a tent encampment in nearby coastal Mawasi, medics said. The Zionist military said it was looking into the reports of the latest bombardments and that its forces take precautions to mitigate civilian harm. Separately, it said its forces had killed dozens of militants in north Gaza over the past month and destroyed more tunnels used by militants in the area.
Five more people, including two children, have died of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza in the past 24 hours, the territory's health ministry said. The new deaths raised the number of deaths from the same causes to 227, including 103 children, since the war started, it added. Zionist entity disputes the malnutrition fatality figures reported by the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave. – Reuters
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