{"id":39180,"date":"2024-05-11T06:09:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T06:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39180"},"modified":"2024-05-11T06:09:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T06:09:06","slug":"us-working-to-keep-israel-hamas-engaged-in-gaza-truce-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39180","title":{"rendered":"US working to keep Israel, Hamas engaged in Gaza truce efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CAIRO, May 11 &#8211; Washington said it was trying to keep Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas engaged &#8220;if only virtually&#8221; in Gaza truce efforts as a U.N. agency warned that humanitarian aid stocks in the devastated enclave have hit &#8220;the bottom of the barrel.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hamas said on Friday it would consult with other militant Palestinian factions on its strategy to negotiate a halt to the war triggered by its Oct. 7 onslaught into Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United Nations warned that aid for Gaza could grind to a halt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/gaza-aid-could-grind-halt-within-days-un-agencies-warn-2024-05-10\/\">within days<\/a> after Israel seized control of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, closing the vital route on which the enclave of 2.3 million Palestinians depends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Talks on a ceasefire and a release of hostages held by Hamas ended in Cairo on Thursday without agreement after Israel said a proposal by Qatari and Egyptian mediators included elements that were unacceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hamas, which said it had accepted the proposal, said in a statement that Israel&#8217;s &#8220;rejection &#8230; returned things to the first square.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House called the end of the talks, which CIA Director William Burns was helping to mediate, &#8220;deeply regrettable,&#8221; but said the U.S. believed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/white-house-gaps-gaza-ceasefire-can-still-be-surmounted-2024-05-10\/\">the differences were surmountable<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are working hard to keep both sides engaged in continuing the discussion, if only virtually,&#8221; White House national security spokesman John Kirby said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: CAIRO, May 11 &#8211; Washington said it was trying to keep Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas engaged &#8220;if only virtually&#8221; in Gaza truce efforts as a U.N. agency warned that humanitarian aid stocks in the devastated enclave have hit &#8220;the bottom of the barrel.&#8221; Hamas said on Friday it would consult with other militant Palestinian factions on its strategy to negotiate a halt to the war triggered by its Oct. 7 onslaught into Israel. The United Nations warned that aid for Gaza could grind to a halt within days after Israel seized control of the Rafah border&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39183,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39180\/revisions\/39183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}