Israel To Offer Six-Week Gaza Truce For 40 Hostages In Qatar Talks: Official [Video]

Israel will send a high-level delegation headed by its Mossad chief to Qatar on Monday for mediated talks with Hamas designed to secure a six-week Gaza truce under which the Palestinian militants would free 40 hostages, an Israeli official said.

This stage of the negotiations could take at least two weeks, the official estimated, citing difficulties that Hamas’ foreign delegates may have in communicating with the group in the besieged enclave after more than five months of war.

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Israeli troops raided the compound of Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital early on Monday in an operation that Palestinian health authorities said had caused multiple casualties and set off a fierce fire in one of the buildings.

The Israeli military said soldiers conducted a “precise operation” and were fired upon when they entered the compound.

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