Accusations from outside failure of negotiations on a truce and exchange of kidnapped people The findings are mutual, despite US President Joe Biden largely blaming Hamas.

Meanwhile plans multiply bring humanitarian aid to Gaza. After at least five Palestinians were killed when the parachute of an air aid shipment failed to open, and a hundred were killed in an avalanche while unloading food trucks, the US is planning to place a floating dock on the Gaza coast.

The aim is to be able to unload food from ships, and the UK has sent ferries to do this, with the project expected to be completed within two months. unload food directly onto the beach. But neither side has yet resolved the issue of security and distribution of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip.

In Jerusalem, Police prevented entry into Al-Aqsa Mosque hundreds of young Palestinians attend the first prayers of Ramadan, contrary to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promises that there would be no restrictions on religious freedom.

The war in Gaza began after Hamas-led militants swept into southern Israel on October 7, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking about 250 hostages. After last year’s exchange Hamas is holding about 100 people captive and the remains of 30 more dead.

Netanyahu and Biden facing each other

Netanyahu is “harming” his country more than what helps him, he said, Joe Biden said in an interview with MSNBC. The ground offensive in Rafah is a “red line” that cannot be crossed, the US president said.

This is criticism “false and unfounded”– said the Prime Minister of Israel in an interview with Politico magazine.

“If the American president wants to say that the interests I defend are contrary to the will of the majority of Israelis and that this is detrimental to Israeli interests, he is wrong on both counts. We are talking about anything, just not about private interests. The vast majority of Israelis support me,” says Benjamin Netanyahu.

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