Live Blog Update| Israel's genocide in Gaza
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Evening recap

8 March 2025 23:53 GMT

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Here are the day's key developments:

  • Israel will send a delegation to Qatar's Doha on Monday to advance ceasefire negotiations after accepting an invitation from the mediators, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement on Saturday. 

  • Hamas said that it sees ‘positive indicators’ over ceasefire talks, as a high level delegation remains in Cairo to advance efforts to prolong the ceasefire.

  • A high-level Hamas delegation is still in Cairo Friday to advance efforts to prolong the fragile ceasefire in Gaza. The group

  • Hamas said in a statement that Israel’s renewed aid blockade on Gaza is tantamount to the “war crime of collective punishment” and said that it would also impact the Israeli captives still held in the enclave.

  • Several Palestinians were wounded in attacks by armed settlers in the Masafer Yatta area in the occupied West Bank.

  • In Lebanon, an Israeli air strike targeting a vehicle near the town of Beit Jbeil in the south killed a Lebanese civilian and injured another.

  • France, Germany, Italy and the UK issued a joint statement welcoming the proposal for Gaza's reconstruction adopted at an Arab League summit earlier this week.