CAIRO(National Times)- An Israeli airstrike killed at least six Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, health officials said, a day after US President Donald Trump\u2019s envoy Jared Kushner ended an inconclusive trip to the region over a stalled US plan to end the conflict in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Medics said 14 others were wounded when the Israeli plane fired two missiles at a small cafe inside the fishing harbour in western Gaza City. The seaport has turned into a large displacement camp for Palestinian families during the conflict that began in October 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Footage on social media showed Palestinians tending to those wounded at the cafe and nearby tents, as blood stained the ground. Some of the casualties were loaded into private vehicles and transported to hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Israeli military said the strike targeted armed Hamas commanders, who it said had planned to carry out attacks against forces operating in the enclave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kushner meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n After the Kushner meetings, an official from Trump\u2019s so-called Board of Peace, which put forward the roadmap, said Israel retained its full right of self defence and that there would be no redeployment by the Israeli military until Hamas was disarmed. An Israeli official said Netanyahu made it clear the military would continue to operate in Gaza and that there would be no pullback of Israeli troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both sides dispute sequence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In what had appeared to be a possible breakthrough at the end of last month, Trump announced Hamas had accepted the roadmap, which said the Palestinian group would decommission its weapons in phases as Israel\u2019s military withdrew from Gaza. The military would also stop its operations in the territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Netanyahu, whose ruling coalition is trailing ahead of an October election, rejected the roadmap, insisting the military would only withdraw once Hamas is completely disarmed. Hamas has demanded that Israel adhere to the ceasefire and withdraw its forces from Gaza. Both sides have disputed the sequencing of how Trump\u2019s plan should be implemented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf they (Hamas) don\u2019t follow through now on their commitment, everyone will see that they\u2019re not genuine about peace, and then Israel will have a lot more support from the US and others to go and finish the job in the appropriate way,\u201d Kushner told Fox News in an interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hamas committed to deal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hamas said on Tuesday it remained committed to the US-backed Gaza peace deal after White House envoy Jared Kushner spoke to Israel about steps towards the group\u2019s disarmament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHamas is committed to this agreed-upon process. It is clear that, so far, the Israeli side has not given the mediators clear approval of the roadmap,\u201d Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said. \u201cThere are timelines and procedural steps that need to be worked out in detail, but there must first be Israeli approval of the roadmap,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kushner, President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law, held a rare meeting with Hamas in Egypt before meeting the following day in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kushner, in a Fox News interview af\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adter the talks, said that Hamas\u2019s dis\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ada\u00ad\u00adrmament could begin in about 30 days and that reconstruction of Ga\u00adza would not begin until that happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kushner also said that the United States is \u201cnot going to restrict Israel\u2019s right to defend itself if there are any imminent threats\u201d in Gaza. Netanyahu has demanded that Hamas fully disarm. In his talks with Kushner, the two sides agreed that a US general would oversee the surrender of weapons, according to an Israeli official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trump\u2019s \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d implementing the deal has also told Netanyahu that Israel does not need to start withdrawing from Gaza until full disarmament, walking back an earlier call to start a phased pullout. Israel has kept up airstrikes in Gaza despite the peace push.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CAIRO(National Times)- An Israeli airstrike killed at least six Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, health officials said, a day after US President Donald Trump\u2019s envoy Jared Kushner ended an inconclusive trip to the region over a stalled US plan to end the conflict in Gaza. Medics said 14 others were wounded when the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n