Hamas given truce proposal

FE Team | Published: January 31, 2024 21:26:57

The mother of this newborn baby did not live long enough to name her — BBC

GAZA, Jan 31 (Reuters): Hamas said on Tuesday it had received and was studying a new proposal for a ceasefire and release of hostages in Gaza, presented by mediators after talks with Israel, in what appeared to be the most serious peace initiative for months.
A senior Hamas official told Reuters the proposal involved a three-stage truce, during which the group would first release remaining civilians among hostages it captured on Oct 7, then soldiers, and finally the bodies of hostages that were killed.
Over 24,000 Gazan
children have also
lost one or both
parents in war
Born amid the horrors of the war in Gaza, the month-old baby girl lying in an incubator has never known a parent's embrace.
She was delivered by Caesarean section after her mother, Hanna, was crushed in an Israeli air strike. Hanna did not live to name her daughter.
"We just call her the daughter of Hanna Abu Amsha," says nurse Warda al-Awawda, who is caring for the tiny newborn at the al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
In the chaos caused by the ongoing fighting and with entire families almost wiped out, medics and rescuers often struggle to find carers for bereaved children. "We have lost contact with her family," the nurse tells us. "None of her relatives have shown up and we don't know what happened to her father."
Children, who make up nearly half of Gaza's population of 2.3 million, have had their lives shattered by the brutal war.