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Displaced Palestinian man and his children make their way to collect water from a distribution point amid shortages in Gaza City on July 14, 2025.
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Stuttering Gaza ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas entered a second week on Monday (July 14, 2025), with U.S. President Donald Trump still hopeful of a breakthrough and as more than 30 people were killed on the ground.
The indirect negotiations in the Qatari capital, Doha, appeared deadlocked over the weekend after both sides blamed the other for blocking a deal for a 60-day ceasefire and the release of hostages.
Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Monday (July 14, 2025) killed at least 30 people, according to local hospitals. The Israeli military, meanwhile, said it killed a senior Hamas militant last month who had held a hostage in his home.
Mr. Trump, who met Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington last week, is keen to secure a truce in the 21-month war, which was sparked by Hamas’ attack on Israel in October 2023.
“Gaza — we are talking and hopefully we’re going to get that straightened out over the next week,” he told reporters late on Sunday, echoing similarly optimistic comments he made on July 4, 2025.
Attack on aid site
Twelve persons were killed by strikes in southern Gaza, including three who were waiting at an aid distribution point, according to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, which received the bodies.
Shifa Hospital in Gaza City also received 12 bodies, including three children and two women, after a series of strikes in the north, according to the hospital director.
Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza reported six killed and eight wounded in strikes in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp.
Pressure
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar and the Palestinian Minister of state for Foreign Affairs, Varsen Aghabekian Shahin, headed to Brussels on Monday (July 14, 2025) for talks between the EU and its Mediterranean neighbours.
But the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority denied media reports that any meeting between the two was on the agenda.
In Israel, Mr. Netanyahu has said he would be ready to enter talks for a more lasting ceasefire when a deal for a temporary truce is agreed and only when Hamas lays down its weapons.
But he is under pressure to quickly wrap up the war, with military casualties mounting and with public frustration both at the continued captivity of the hostages and a perceived lack of progress in the conflict.
Published – July 14, 2025 10:13 pm IST
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Gaza truce talks enter second week as Israeli strikes kill 30
