Israel awaits the U.S. election before a Gaza cease-fire, an official says

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42. Hamas did not reject the Egyptian offer. Israel did, according to Arab sources.

From the NPR link in the O/P:

Hamas declined comment. An official from an Arab country in the region said Israel had rejected the proposal and was buying time.

Buying time to see if Trump wins, I venture to say.

You are conflating the Egyptian proposal with the Israeli proposal put forward by the Mossad chief, the subject of the JP article you linked to. That one offers safe passage for Hamas leaders, who said that an end to the genocide in north Gaza is a precondition to any movement on negotiations.

Perhaps they're not out to save their own skin at the expense of their people. Or perhaps they still believe they can fight. How quixotic but I guess par for the course for true believers.

But what's happening in north Gaza is truly awful. From the NPR article in the O/P:

“The plight of Palestinian civilians trapped in North Gaza is unbearable,” said Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. “The Secretary-General is shocked by the harrowing levels of death, injury and destruction in the north, with civilians trapped under rubble, the sick and wounded going without life-saving health care, and families lacking food and shelter, amid reports of families being separated and many people detained.”

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Mahmoud Basal, the spokesman of Gaza’s civil defense group, says some 830 bodies were brought to Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabaliya, one of the last functioning hospitals in north Gaza, since the beginning of the siege. He said other bodies were in streets and under rubble but that first responders were unable to retrieve them in recent days due to the bombardment and attacks on their vehicles.

Over the weekend, Israeli troops raided the hospital, where civilians sheltered alongside patients and medical staff. Israel said militants were operating in the area.

Israeli troops detained more than 30 medical staff in the raid, leaving just two doctors to care for more than 145 patients, many of them children in critical condition due to Israeli airstrikes and shelling, the hospital director said in a television appearance on Al Jazeera. Videos before the raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital, the only hospital in northern Gaza with a pediatric wing, showed severely burnt children in its ICU ward and connected to life support machines.

The suffering is unspeakable, you would agree. This has to end.