Live update: Israel and Hamas announce reaching an agreement to extend the truce

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – International efforts continue to extend the truce between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas”, which ends at seven o’clock on Thursday morning, local time (8 am Mecca time). Below we review the latest developments:

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Thursday that he has “serious doubts” about Israel’s compliance with international humanitarian law in Gaza, adding in an interview with the state-owned Spanish channel TVE: “With the footage we are watching and the increasing numbers of children dying, I have doubts.” Serious about that [إسرائيل] comply with international humanitarian law,” he said, calling for the “unconditional and immediate” release of all hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

– At least three people were killed and six others were injured after a shooting in Jerusalem on Thursday, according to local authorities. Police Chief Doron Turgeman said, “The terrorists from East Jerusalem were armed with an M16 rifle and a pistol. They arrived in a car and opened fire on civilians,” noting that Until the attackers were killed by two police officers and a civilian man.”

– A 21-year-old Palestinian man, Fadi Muayyad Badran, was killed by Israeli army gunfire during the release of a Palestinian from Ofer Prison in the West Bank, on Thursday, according to a statement by the Palestinian Ministry of Health, while the official Palestinian News Agency reported that Badran was not among the released Palestinians. He died of his wounds after being hit with a bullet in the chest area, and four others were injured by bullets during clashes in front of the prison in the city of Beitunia.

Minutes after the truce was extended, Mark Regev, a senior advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said to CNN, “Israel’s position on any extension of the humanitarian truce to the fighting is completely clear… Every day, we agree to an extension in exchange for the release of ten surviving hostages.” life.”

– Israel received a new list of names of women and children hostages scheduled to be released by Hamas, according to a statement issued by the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Hamas movement confirmed the extension of the truce with Israel, saying in a statement: “It was agreed to extend the truce to the seventh day, which is Thursday.”

The Israeli army said, on Thursday, that the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas has been extended for the seventh day, and in light of the efforts of the mediators to continue the process of releasing the hostages in accordance with the terms of the agreement, the truce will continue, and the Israeli army spokesman wrote to the Arab media, Avijaa Adraei In a post on his page on the

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its daily report on Gaza, on Wednesday, that up to 1.8 million people in Gaza, or nearly 80% of the population, are believed to be internally displaced, noting that approximately of 1.1 million internally displaced people in 156 UN-run facilities, warning that overcrowding and poor sanitary conditions in shelters have led to an increase in some infectious diseases.

The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced, on Thursday, the extension of the temporary truce agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip for the seventh day, explaining that the agreement is under the same conditions.

The extension of the temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, on Thursday morning, is the second extension of the initial truce that lasted 4 days since Friday, and resulted in the return of 70 Israeli hostages and the release of three dual Israeli citizens and twenty-four foreign citizens, in return for which 210 Palestinians were released from prisons. Israeli.

Hamas accused Israel of causing the truce extension talks to falter, according to a statement issued by the movement, in which it said that Israel rejected an offer to receive 7 detained women and children and the bodies of 3 others it claimed were killed in the Israeli bombing in exchange for extending the truce.

On Thursday, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing of the Hamas movement) issued a statement directing its fighters to maintain a state of high combat readiness in the final hours of the truce with Israel if it is not renewed.

– An Israeli official told CNN that the war cabinet met late Wednesday night as talks on a truce with Hamas continued.

– US administration officials are discussing with their Israeli counterparts how to protect thousands of civilians who have fled into southern Gaza if the IDF targets the area once the cessation of hostilities with Hamas eventually ends, according to US sources.