“WE WANT TO EAT AND LIVE”
As conditions in Gaza deteriorate, Israel has also faced increasingly sharp rebukes from Washington.
Vice President Kamala Harris had expressed “deep concern about the humanitarian conditions in Gaza” during talks on Monday with war cabinet member Benny Gantz, a centrist political rival of right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
American cargo planes airdropped more than 36,000 meals into Gaza Tuesday in a joint operation with Jordan, which said French and Egyptian planes also took part.
The United Nations has warned famine is “almost inevitable” in the Palestinian territory.
Israeli media reported, meanwhile, that the country’s negotiating team had so far boycotted the Cairo talks after Hamas had failed to provide it with a list of the living hostages.
Israel has said it believes 130 of the original 250 captives remain in Gaza, but that 31 have been killed.
Senior Hamas leader Bassem Naim told AFP on Monday that the group did not know “who among them are alive or dead, killed because of strikes or hunger”, and that the captives were being held by “numerous groups in multiple places”.
He said that, in order for all of them to be located, “a ceasefire is necessary”.
Source: CNA
