[News] Middle East crisis: Hamas ‘showing flexibility’ in negotiations with Israel but ‘prepared to continue fighting’ – as it happenedh

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On Monday Palestinian prime minister Mohammad Shtayyeh resigned. Maliki said the move was designed to build support for an expanded role for the Palestinian Authority.

Reuters reports that, speaking on the sidelines of the UN human rights council in Geneva, Maliki said:

We hope that there we might be good results in terms of mutual understanding between all factions about the need to support such a technocratic government that will emerge. Of course, we don’t expect miracles to happen in just a simple meeting in Moscow, but I believe that the meeting in Moscow should be followed by other meetings in the region soon.

Representatives of Hamas and Fatah will meet in Moscow. The two factions have been divided since Hamas threw the Fatah movement out of Gaza in 2007.

Maliki also accused the UN security council of “failing” the Palestinian people in its inability to agree on a ceasefire, saying “Now in Gaza, it seems that the ceasefire is a farfetched objective to be attained.”

Reuters reports that residents said Israeli tanks and planes pounded northern Gaza again today, months after the army declared Hamas defeated there.

Additionally, Palestinian health officials said 18 bodies of people killed on Tuesday had been recovered in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, where several residential buildings were said to have been destroyed on Wednesday by Israeli tanks

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/feb/28/middle-east-crisis-live-red-sea-houthi-attack-gaza-israel-hamas