Hamas ready for 'immediate' ceasefire talks as Israel kills dozens in Gaza

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The Israeli military said on Sunday that it has intercepted a missile launched from Yemen towards Israel.

Sirens were activated across several areas in Israel in accordance with protocol, it said.

The Israeli military said on Sunday that it has identified a missile launch from Yemen that it was currently working on intercepting.

Five Israeli military bases were struck by Iranian ballistic missiles during the 12-day war between the two countries, according to a report from The Telegraph.

According to the report, Tel Nof airbase, the Glilot intelligence base, and the Zipporit armour and weapons production base are included, although official details haven't been released because of military censorship in Israel.

Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinians in the occupied West Bank village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa, which said that settlers smashed windows, damaged solar power units and attempted to steal livestock. Israeli police later raided the village and arrested three residents.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was sending a negotiating team to Qatar Sunday for talks on a truce in Gaza, but rejected Hamas's earlier ceasefire proposals.

"The changes that Hamas is seeking to make in the Qatari proposal were conveyed to us last night and are unacceptable to Israel," said a statement from his office.

"In light of an assessment of the situation, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed that the invitation to proximity talks be accepted and that the contacts for the return of our hostages -- on the basis of the Qatari proposal that Israel has agreed to - be continued," the statement added.

"The negotiating team will leave tomorrow (Sunday) for the talks in Qatar."

Hamas announced late on Friday that it was ready to start talks "immediately" on a US-sponsored proposal for a Gaza ceasefire.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly told his far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that he will not end the war unless Gaza is demilitarised, according to the Israeli Broadcasting Authority.

Israeli settlers have attacked two German journalists in the occupied West Bank, Germany's international broadcaster DW said. The pair were working in the Palestinian village of Sinjil, DW said in a statement, adding that the attack occurred on Friday. 

The broadcaster said their journalists were not physically injured and got to safety, adding that "there is no justification for this attack."

"We strongly demand that the Israeli government guarantee the safety of all journalists in the West Bank." 

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attended a religious event on Saturday, according to a video carried by state media, in his first public appearance since the 13 June start of a 12-day air war with Israel in which top Iranian commanders and nuclear scientists were killed.

Video footage released by Hamas' armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, shows fighters attacking Israeli tanks with explosive devices in southern Gaza on Friday. The group added that its fighters fired on Israeli soldiers in an armoured vehicle in a separate clash.

Israeli protest groups that are rallying to pressure the government to come to a ceasefire agreement in Gaza have written to opposition politicians, saying that any Member of the Knesset (MK) who voted to oust Hadash MK Ayman Odeh from the Knesset will not be allowed to speak at rallies.

MK Odeh has been a staunch critic of both the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and the war, which is being increasingly viewed as a genocide by the party and its supporters.

According to Haaretz the letter read that the opposition had "crossed a red line" and that those who supported Odeh's removal: "We will consider from now on as a member of the coup d'etat, and we will see him or her as complicit in the destruction of democracy."

Israel has decided to send a delegation to Qatar for talks on a possible Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, Israel's Channel 12 reported on Saturday, citing a senior Israeli official.

It was unclear whether the delegation would fly to Qatar on Saturday or Sunday.

The Israeli military has said that it has intercepted two rockets fired from southern Gaza, adding that no one was wounded.

The headquarters of the Professional Associations Complex in East Jerusalem was raided by the Israeli police while the Palestinian Bar Association was holding an election.

The police searched the premises and checked the identification of everyone present, handing summons to 15 people participating in the elections, ordering them to appear for questioning later, according to the Prisoners’ Media Office.

Israeli settlers carried out several attacks on Palestinian villages north and northeast of Ramallah, Palestinian security sources told Wafa.

Settlers attempted to set fire to a home in Jiljilya. residents of Sinjil’s al-Batin area confronted settlers and forced them to leave, while some also opened fire toward residents northeast of Ramallah, causing panic but no injuries.

At least six Palestinians were killed after an Israeli drone strike struck a afé west of Al-Zawaida town in central Gaza, Wafa reports.

An Israeli strike targeting Al-Zaytoun and the town of Jabalia al-Balad has killed at least eight Palestinians and injured several, Wafa reports.

Four were killed after an Israeli strike struck a home near Salah al-Din Mosque in the Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, southeast of Gaza City. While a strike targeting the Jabalia al-Balad area in the northern part of the Gaza Strip also killed four.

At least 64 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Saturday, including nine who were collecting aid near distribution point run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation north of Rafah.

Two Palestinians were killed after an Israeli attack targeted Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip, a source at al-Awda Hospital told Al Jazeera Arabic reports.

Police on Saturday arrested protesters in London for supporting activist group Palestine Action, which was on Friday banned under anti-terror laws.

"Officers are responding to a protest in support of Palestine Action in Parliament Square. The group is now proscribed and expressing support for them is a criminal offence. Arrests are being made," the Metropolitan Police wrote on X.

Campaign group Defend Our Juries said in a press release that a group of 27 people, including a priest and a number of health professionals, had been arrested for offences under the Terrorism Act.

They were holding cardboard signs, saying: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action," added the campaign group.

Nearly one in three Palestinians in Gaza are not eating for days, a recent assessment by the World Food Programme reveals.

While the organisation continues to deliver life-saving food aid in Gaza, it is still a tiny fraction of what the two million Gazans need to survive.

After the border crossings reopened on 21 May, they have been able to dispatch only a limited amount of aid, with dozens of aid convoys carrying over 1,200 trucks and 18,247 metric tons of food aid.

At least 56 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces on Saturday, Al Jazeera reports. At least nine were seeking aid.

Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have now killed almost 70 civilians on Saturday and injured at least 332 people over the past 24 hours.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he asked US President Donald Trump to intervene to stop shootings at Gaza aid centres, which the UN says have killed more than 500 people.

Erdogan said when he met Trump at a NATO summit in late June, he asked him to step in and halt the bloodshed.

"I asked him to intervene in the Gaza process telling him, 'You are the one who will best manage this process with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu'. There are people who are being killed in food queues in particular.

"You need to intervene here so that these people are not killed'," he said, his remarks reported Saturday by Anadolu state news agency.

The US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said two American staff were wounded Saturday in an "attack" on one of its aid centres in southern Gaza.

"This morning, two American aid workers were injured in a targeted terrorist attack during food distribution activities at SDS-3 in Khan Yunis," the organisation said, adding that reports indicated it was carried out by "two assailants who threw two grenades at the Americans".

Doctor Mousa Hamdan Khafaja, along with several members of his family and three of his children, were killed after an Israeli strike targeted a tent housing displaced civilians in the al-Mawasi area, which was declared a "humanitarian zone".

Dr Khafaja was a consultant in the obstetrics and gynaecology department at Nasser Medical Complex.

Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 42 civilians. Attacks include 10 killed in Rafah.

Nine Palestinians, including three children, were killed near an aid centre north of Rafah.

A medical source told Al Jazeera that one was also killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood.

The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, says it attacked members of the Israeli army near the Education Directorate in central Khan Younis, Al Jazeera reports.

The group says they targeted two Merkava tanks with explosive devices on Friday and an armoured personnel carrier with an Al-Yassin 105 anti-armour rocket.

The number of casualties is unknown.

Israeli attacks since Saturday have killed at least 35 Palestinians, including eight who were seeking aid, hospital sources told Al Jazeera​​​​​​.

At least one person has been killed and two others have been injured after an Israeli strike targeted Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon - the Lebanese Ministry of Health reports.

An Israeli drone strike has targeted a town in southern Lebanon, Al Jazeera ​​​​​​reports.

The publication says the strike targeted the town of Shebaa, located across mountainsides that straddle Lebanon’s borders with Syria as well as the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Hamas on Friday said it was ready to start talks "immediately" on a proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, where the civil defence agency said Israel's ongoing offensive killed more than 50 people.

"The movement is ready to engage immediately and seriously in a cycle of negotiations on the mechanism to put in place" the terms of a draft US-backed truce proposal received from mediators, the militant group said in a statement.

Hamas ally Islamic Jihad said it supported ceasefire talks, but demanded "guarantees" that Israel "will not resume its aggression" once hostages held in Gaza are freed.

Trump, when asked about Hamas' response aboard Air Force One on Friday, said: "That's good. They haven't briefed me on it. We have to get it over with. We have to do something about Gaza."

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that "could be a Gaza deal" next week and expressed optimism, although the situation could change.

Asked aboard Air Force One how optimistic he was about a ceasefire deal, Trump said "very," but added "it changes day to day".

In response to reports that Hamas had responded positively to proposed truce talks, he said: "That's good. They haven't briefed me on it. We have to get it over with. We have to do something about Gaza."