The special envoy of President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, came to Israel on Thursday to discuss the dissolving humanitarian situation in Gaza when the USA supports officials from the Palestinian authority of the Western.
Witkoff is expected to talk to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Gaza and a possible ceasefire, according to an official who spoke about the condition of anonymity.
This is the first meeting between Witkoff and Netanyahu, as both Israel and the United States called home their negotiation teams from Qatar a week ago. At the time, Witkoff said that Hamas “has a lack of desire” in order to achieve an armistice.
The conditions remain in Gaza, where the Ministry of Health said, 91 Palestinians were killed and more than 600 were wounded while trying to get lend a hand in the last 24 hours. The leading international authority for hunger crises said that the military offensive and blockade of Israel led to the “worst case of famine” in the territory.
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Egypt supports Canada’s recognition of Palestine
In a declaration published on Thursday, the Egyptian government asked other countries that have not yet “recognized the state of Palestine to accelerate this step on the right side of history”.
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday that his country will recognize a Palestinian state in September and that Great Britain, France and other western countries follow in a symbolic explanation that is part of a wider global change against Israel’s politics in Gaza Strip.
Sanctioned Palestinian officials from the trip to the USA
The Palestinian officials, which are associated with the Palestinian authority and the Palestinian liberation organization, can no longer travel to the USA after the visa revoked on Thursday, which represents a further deterioration in their relationships with the United States.
The decision of the US State Department to impose recent restrictions occur when the Palestinian leaders in their campaign gain the recognition of statehood and the acquisition of support from countries such as France, Canada and Australia.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that officials from the Palestinian authority violate long -term agreements against long -term agreements against the peace process or that the conflict by courts such as the International Court of Justice did not attack. It accused them of stimulated violence to glorify terrorism and to support convicted attackers and their families.
The department did not state which officials would be sanctioned, but similar measures that were unloaded by President Donald Trump during the first term of office in 2018 caused the group.
Cyprus Top Diplomat: Working for the Realization of Aid Redes to Gaza Strip
The Cyprus Minister of Cyprus says that the authorities work out the logistics to reactivate a sea route to send humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip.
Konstantinos Kombos said after the talks with his French counterpart Jean-Noël-Kartrot on Thursday, he hoped to announce the reopening of the Cyprus Maritime corridor “very soon”.
He said, before the programs can start, still has to be worked to ensure that it is certain to deliver the lend a hand for the Palestinian territory and that the sales network is in operation.
He said the situation in Gaza was now “unacceptable, unbearable” and this lend a hand must go into the area in sufficient volume, “so that they immediately have concrete, visible results.”
Cyprus is currently available in Cyprus in Cyprus in Cyprus, as soon as all the details have been worked out, he added 1,200 tons of tons in storage.
Cyprus was the Staging point for aids worth around 2,200 tons to Gaza last year.
Trump uses Canada’s recognition of the Palestinian state in trade talks
President Donald Trump said that Canada’s announcement will recognize that a Palestinian state would make it very hard for the United States to achieve a trade agreement with his north neighbor.
The threat published in Trump’s social media network in the early morning hours on Thursday is the latest way of using its trade war to force countries in non -related questions. It is a swing from the ambivalence that he has expressed across other countries, which takes such a step.
“Wow! Canada has just announced that it supports statehood for Palestine,” Trump said about the social truth in his post in his post. “It will make it very difficult for us to conclude a trade agreement with them. Oh Canada !!!”
The Republican President said this week that he did not say that British Prime Minister Keir Starrer took a position on the question of official recognition of the Palestinian statehood. And last week he said that the similar step by French President Emmanuel Macron would “change nothing”.
France to carry out 4 air drops in Gaza from Friday
France’s Foreign Minister says his country will carry out four air waste from Friday, each of the 10 tons of humanitarian lend a hand for Gaza Strip.
Jean-Noël Barrot said after the conversations with his Cypriot counterpart Constantino’s combos on Thursday that the flights were held in coordination with the Jordanian authorities.
Barrot also called for an end to the work of the humanitarian foundation in Gaza and described it as the “militarized distribution system” of humanitarian aid that “generated a bloodbath in distribution lines in Gaza”. He called it “a scandal that is shameful and has to stop”.
The French minister said there is 52 tons of humanitarian aid, which is located in the Egyptian city of El-Arish, in a low route from Gaza.
