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Hamas leadership has said that its internal assessement indicates that the recent round of negotiations in Cairo have failed, according to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.

They added that the Israeli proposal, which calls for Hamas' disarmament as a condition for a permanent ceasefire, violates the movement's "red lines."

"The resistance's weapons are a red line," one source told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. 

The source also said that the proposal fails to ensure an end to the war on Gaza and the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces.

According to the report, the Israeli proposal was rejected unanimously by all Palestinian resistance groups. 

Yemeni militias are reportedly planning to launch a ground offensive against the Houthis, following a large-scale US attack against the group, US and Yemeni officials say.

The ramped-up bombing campaign, which has killed at least 123 people since mid-March and compounded an already dire humanitarian situation in the country, has severely degraded the Houthi’s capabilities, the officials claimed.

Strikes have targeted Sanaa, the port city of Hodeidah and the Houthi stronghold of Saada, including densely populated areas.

US and Yemeni officials told the Wall Street Journal that Yemeni factions are planning to use the strikes on the Houthis as an opportunity to oust the group from some of their strongholds across the Red Sea coast.

Read more: Yemeni factions plan ground offensive against Houthis amid US strikes, officials say

Israeli forces have killed dozens of civilians in Lebanon since a ceasefire took effect late last year, including a number of women and children, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

The UN human rights office reported that Israeli military operations had killed and injured civilians in Lebanon in the four months since the fragile truce between Israel and Hezbollah on 27 November.

"According to our initial review, at least 71 civilians have been killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon since the ceasefire came into effect," human rights office spokesman Thameen al-Kheetan told reporters in Geneva.

"Among the victims are 14 women and nine children," he said, adding that "the violence must stop immediately".

The Maldives announced Tuesday it was banning the entry of Israelis from the luxury tourist archipelago in "resolute solidarity" with the Palestinian people.

President Mohamed Muizzu ratified the legislation shortly after it was approved by parliament on Tuesday.

"The ratification reflects the government's firm stance in response to the continuing atrocities and ongoing acts of genocide committed by Israel against the Palestinian people," his office said in a statement.

"The Maldives reaffirms its resolute solidarity with the Palestinian cause."

The ban will be implemented with immediate effect, a spokesman for Muizzu's office told AFP.

The Maldives, a small Islamic republic of 1,192 strategically located coral islets, is known for its secluded white sandy beaches, shallow turquoise lagoons and Robinson Crusoe-style getaways.

Official data showed that 59 Israeli tourists visited the archipelago only in February, among 214,000 other foreign arrivals.

A senior Hamas official said on Tuesday that it will "most likely" respond to an Israeli ceasefire proposal it received through mediators within 48 hours, according to a report by AFP.

"Hamas will most likely send its response to the mediators within the next 48 hours, as the movement is still conducting in-depth consultations... within its leadership framework, as well as with resistance factions, in order to formulate a unified position," the official said.

An Israeli drone strike targeted a car in the southern Lebanese town of Aitaroun, wounding several people, according to local media reports.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 51,000 Palestinians and injured 116,343 since 7 October 2023, the Health Ministry in Gaza said in a statement on Telegram on Tuesday.

At least 1,630 Palestinians have been killed and 4,302 wounded since Israel broke the ceasefire on 18 March, the ministry said, adding that at least 17 people were killed and 69 injured in the past 24 hours.

According to Al Jazeera, Israeli strikes have killed at least six people in Gaza since midnight.

Around 700 Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on Tuesday under heavy protection from the Israeli police, according to Wafa news agency.

Local sources reported that the Israeli police imposed strict restrictions on the entry of worshippers and detained some Palestinians who tried entering the mosque complex as the settlers performed Talmudic rituals on the third day of the Jewish Passover holiday.

The Israeli police transformed Jerusalem and its Old City into a military barracks, deploying thousands of officers and special forces units on the streets and roads to secure the settlers' movement, the report said.

As part of an agreement between Jordan – the custodian of Islamic and Christian sites in Jerusalem – and Israel, only Muslims are allowed to pray in al-Aqsa while Jews can perform prayers by the Western Wall.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "deeply alarmed" at Sunday's strike by Israeli forces on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, the last functioning hospital in Gaza, his spokesperson said on Tuesday.

"The Secretary-General is deeply alarmed by Sunday's strike by Israeli forces on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, incapacitating the hospital in Gaza City and dealing a severe blow to an already devastated healthcare system in the Strip," the spokesperson said.

Three Nobel Prize laureates have called for the return of the captives and an end to Israel's war in Gaza, joining a letter signed by 3,000 Israeli health workers, Haaretz reported.

Israeli Nobel Prize winners Aaron Ciechanover, Avram Hershko and Ada Yonath are among the signatories.

Over the past week, thousands of soldiers, reservists, academics and security agency officials have signed similar letters after around 1,000 air force reservists called for an end to the war in Gaza.

The UN humanitarian agency (OCHA) has warned that "violence is surging" and "displacement is at record levels" in the occupied West Bank.

"Aid groups are stepping in, but we must not let the West Bank become another Gaza," OCHA's office in Palestine said in a post on X.

According to the agency's monthly update, 44,285 Palestinians were displaced across the occupied West Bank during January and February 2025 amid Israeli raids. Of those, 38,710 were "displaced due to Palestinian and Israeli forces' operations," OCHA said. 

It also reported that home demolitions carried out by Israeli forces displaced 2,765 people. An additional 837 were forced to leave their homes due to settler violence and restrictions on movement.

Violence is surging in the #WestBank. Displacement is at record levels. Aid groups are stepping in, but we must not let the West Bank become another #Gaza.

📊 Read our monthly snapshot: https://t.co/gWjuiM5201 pic.twitter.com/s673PlxC3J

— OCHA OPT (Palestine) (@ochaopt) April 14, 2025

A group of officers and reservists from the Israeli Special Operations and Cyber Directorates have published open letters reiterating calls for an end to the Gaza war and a return to negotiations to ensure the release of the captives.

In a statement quoted by Israeli Army Radio, reservists from the Cyber Directorate accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of prolonging the war for his "political survival."

The report said 150 Golani Brigade members are among those who signed an open letter.

Former members of Special Operations units said that "the Israeli government and its leader are a clear and immediate danger to Israel's security and to the lives of the hostages."

Last week, almost 1,000 Air Force personnel published a letter calling for the return of all captives and an end to the war.

Former and active-duty members of the military in various units, from the Armoured Corps to the Navy and Medical Corps, joined the call in several other open letters supporting the sentiment.

Good morning Middle East Eye readers,

Here are some of the latest updates from Israel’s war on Gaza:

• Israeli forces shot a child on the back during a raid in the town of Awarta in the Nablus governorate on Monday night, Wafa news agency reported.

• The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said 70 percent of schools in Gaza have been directly targeted by Israeli attacks and nearly 90 percent need significant rehabilitation or reconstruction.

• According to the American Civil Liberties Union, lawyers for detained Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi “have already filed a petition for his release” and a judge in the state of Vermont, where Mahdawi was detained, had “ordered he not be moved out of state”.

• Two people were killed in an Israeli attack on tent shelters in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahia area amid intense Israeli artillery, helicopter and ground attacks across Gaza, according to Al Jazeera.

• The spokesperson for the United Nations secretary-general has issued a statement saying that almost 70 percent of the Gaza Strip is now under Israeli “displacement orders” or in “no-go” zones.

• The US attacks on Yemen have killed 123 people since mid-March, according to the Yemeni health ministry.

Our live coverage from Gaza will shortly be closing until tomorrow morning.

Here are some of the day's key developments:

• At least 15 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Monday morning, according to medical sources in Gaza.

• At least seven people were killed and nearly 30 others wounded in a fresh wave of US air strikes near Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, according to the Houthis, who made the announcement on Monday.

• A senior Hamas figure said on Monday that a delegation is heading to Qatar soon for another round of indirect talks with Israel aimed at securing a ceasefire in Gaza.

• Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest ceasefire conditions, calling them nothing more than a “surrender agreement”.

• A senior Hamas official has said on Monday that the group is willing to free all the Israeli captives in return for what he described as a “serious prisoner swap” and a guaranteed end to the war.

• A group of Republican senators, led by Ted Cruz, is pushing forward a bill that targets the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), aiming to strip it of legal immunity in the United States.

• Saudi news channel Al-Arabiya is quoting sources as saying that the US will press Israel to accept a new proposal for the ceasefire in Gaza.

• The European Union will increase its financial support for the Palestinian Authority with a three-year package worth around $1.8bn, the European Commissioner responsible for the Middle East told Reuters in an interview.

• A Palestinian student at Columbia University was arrested in Vermont by US federal agents - right in the middle of a meeting that was supposed to finalise his path to American citizenship.

At least 15 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Monday morning, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.