Jerusalem – Israel says that it is cutting its electricity supply to Loop.
The complete effects of that are not immediately clear, but the desalination plants of the territory receive energy to produce drinking water.
Sunday's announcement comes a week later Israel cut all goods supplies to the territory to more than 2 million people.
Has tried to press Hamas to accept a first phase extension of its high fire.
That phase ended last weekend. Israel wants Hamas to release half of the remaining hostages in exchange for a promise to negotiate a lasting truce.
Hamas has pressed to begin negotiations on the second most difficult phase of the high fire, which would see the liberation of remaining hostages of Gaza, the withdrawal of the Israeli forces and a lasting peace.
It is believed that Hamas has 24 live hostages and the bodies of another 35.
The militant group said on Sunday that the last round of high the fire conversations with Egyptian mediators without changes in their position, asking for an immediate beginning of the second phase of the high fire.
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The new letter from Israel's Minister of Energy to Israel Electric Corporation tells him to stop selling energy to Gaza.
Israel had warned when it stopped all supplies that water and electricity could be the following.
Gaza has been largely devastated by war, and generators and solar panels are used for part of the energy supply.
The Alto El Fuego has stopped the most deadly and destructive struggle between Israel and Hamas, caused by the attack led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
The first phase allowed the return of 25 living hostages and the remains of eight others in exchange for the release of almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.
The Israeli forces have retired to the damping areas within Gaza, hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza for the first time from the beginning of the war and hundreds of aid trucks entered per day until Israel suspended supplies.
US shipping.
The White House on Wednesday made the surprise confirmation of direct conversations with Hamas.
On Sunday, the envoy Adam Boehler told CNN that “I think you could see something like a long -term truce, where we forgive the prisoners, where Hamas goes to bed, where they agree that they are not part of the political party in the future. I think it's a reality. It is very close. “
When CNN asked if he would talk to the militant group again, Boehler replied: “You never know.”
He added: “I think something could join in a few weeks” and expressed the hope of an agreement that would see all the released hostages, not just Americans.
Hamas reiterated on Sunday his support for a proposal for the establishment of an independent committee of technocrats to direct Gaza until the Palestinians have presidential and legislative elections.
That committee would work “under the umbrella” of the Palestinian authority, based in the occupied West Bank.
Israel has rejected that the PA has some role in Gaza, but has not presented an alternative for the postwar government.
Hamas' attack in October 2023 killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, within Israel and the terrorist group took 251 people as hostages. Most have been published in high fire agreements or other agreements.
Israel's military offensive has killed more than 48,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not say how many dead were militants.
Now, with the limit of all supplies to Gaza, the Palestinians report strong price increases for the decrease in articles as fears grow again.
“Since the ceasefire began, the situation has improved a bit. But before that, the situation was very bad, “said Fares Al-Qeisi in the southern city of Khan Younis.” I swear by God, one could not satisfy his hunger. “
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