Photos: Gaza hunger warnings grow as hopes build for ceasefire
Al Jazeera
Israel’s spy chief David Barnea holds talks with Egyptian and Qatari mediators in Doha.
Efforts to hammer out a temporary truce in Gaza have intensified after months of war that have left parts of the devastated territory facing imminent famine.
A United Nations-backed assessment described the increasingly dire situation by noting that without a surge of aid, famine would hit the 300,000 people in Gaza’s war-battered north by May.
Gaza’s 2.3 million people are trapped in the fighting, which again flared at the territory’s biggest hospital, al-Shifa in Gaza City, as an Israeli raid stretched into Tuesday.
But positive signals have been reported from negotiations for a new truce that would include an exchange of captives held in Gaza for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel and increased aid deliveries.
US media outlet Axios said the opening session of talks in Doha was “positive”, citing what it called a source with direct knowledge of the negotiations.
