The Middle East

The images illustrate the current situation in Gaza. According to the Ministry of Health, there are 7000 dead under the rubble, 3600 missing persons, but as many suspect that no one will claim them, as 2700 families are believed to have been killed.

Thousands of Gazans have already begun to leave their shelters in the south of the city and return to Gaza, while many Israelite soldiers have not yet crossed the "yellow line", as the exchange of hostages and prisoners has not yet taken place.

EITB will tell firsthand everything that happens in Gaza and Israel in the early hours of the truce. Xabier Madariaga is in Gaza. He has seen many Gazatis return to their homes or to what remains, to northern Gaza, after the end of the attacks. 

Once the agreement with Hamas has been ratified, the ceasefire should enter into force within a maximum of 24 hours. The agreement also stipulates that the exchange of hostages with Palestinian prisoners must take place within a maximum of 72 hours. 

US, Arab and Turkish mediators have given them assurances of an end to the war, as explained by Khalil Al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official and member of the negotiating team.

The President of the United States has stated that he will travel to Egypt to sign the agreement reached.

EITB's Middle East correspondent, Mikel Ayestaran, has explained that the ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hamas will enter into force at noon (11 a.m. in the Basque Country). Thereafter, a period of 72 hours will be opened to implement what was agreed in the first phase of the peace plan for Gaza, including the exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners and the partial withdrawal of the Israeli army.

Hamas has announced the exchange on the third day of talks. The US Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have arrived in Egypt to participate in the negotiations.

It is two years since Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel on Tuesday. Binyamin Netanyahu's government immediately responded: what began with mass bombings of the Gaza Strip has become a complete genocide. r shows data: 67,000 dead, mostly women and children; 168,000 wounded; and more than half a million citizens trapped by famine. 

The four Basque activists are already in Athens waiting to take the flight to Bilbao, which is expected to land in Bilbao around 23:14 this very Monday.

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From the Global Movement for Gaza Euskal Herria collective, it has not been revealed whether the four Basques are in this first group. n the meantime 28 others with Spanish nationality will remain in an Israeli prison. 

137 activists of thirteen nationalities have arrived in Istanbul, members of the Global Sumud fleet, who were arrested in international waters trying to reach Gaza. Activists have explained that Greta Thunberg has been "severely tortured" and tried to "force her to kiss the Israeli flag." For the time being, they have not specified when the Spanish State citizens who are in the flotilla will be deported.

The 20-point plan proposed by Donald Trump has not been fully accepted by the Palestinians, as Hamas has called for negotiations on the details of some issues that would remain in the air.

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According to sources familiar with the negotiations, the Palestinian movement demands assurances from the mediators that Israel will not violate the ceasefire and that it will leave Gaza.

The President of the United States has advanced that he is close to reaching a new agreement in the Middle East with a plan for Gaza and the West Bank.

Israel has already killed more than 66,000 people in Gaza, not to mention the thousands of bodies that remain in the rubble.

The complaint has been filed by a Palestinian journalist based in Spain, after finding that the sergeant had travelled to Madrid this weekend to watch a football game, showing on his social media accounts what he had done in the Gaza Strip, even though he was currently in Madrid.