Israel-Hamas war: Rafah invasion update amid ceasefire negotiations | LiveNOW from FOX

Israel-Hamas war: Rafah invasion update amid ceasefire negotiations | LiveNOW from FOX

as we continue to follow the very latest of the Israel Hamas War this morning a Hamas delegation was in Cairo Saturday as Egyptian State media reported noticeable progress in ceasefire talks for Gaza but Israel hasn’t sent a delegation and a senior Israeli official downplaying prospects for a full end to the war while emphasizing the commitment to invading Rafa pressure has mounted to reach a deal halting the nearly seven-month long War a top un official say there’s now a full-blown famine in Northern Gaza while the US has repeatedly warned close Ally Israel about its planned offens of inaa that’s the Southernmost city on the border with Egypt where more than 1 million Palestinians are currently Sheltering joining us live this morning to share the latest on this ongoing conflict is senior lecturer in homeland security and Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven Mr Ken gr Mr Ken good morning always a pleasure speaking with you good morning Jana glad to be with you again so it seems that there have been some movements when we are discussing ceasefire talks we’re hearing from that um those in Cairo Egypt that the talks are coming from the Hamas side but not hearing much from the Israel side if you could catch us up this morning so the the two uh sides are still pretty far apart Hamas uh is calling for a permanent ceasefire and they want the IDF out of Gaza Strip Israel on the other hand is only offering a temporary ceasefire a 40-day long ceasefire and they are also uh not uh allowing themselves to be uh to give up the presence in Gaza Strip Israel is still committed to the idea of wiping out the S the Hamas which is the side negotiating with them so this is this is going to be a difficult uh negotiation uh the Hamas is holding all the chips in that they are the ones that are holding the hostages and so that’s ultimately why they put brought hostages back into the Gaza Strip was to use them for uh as a human shield and to negotiate with them but uh there is a lot of outside pressure being brought to bear on both sides to come to some type of agreement so we may see some type of of temporary ceasefire come out of this with the exchange of hostages for some of the hostages for some Palestinian prisoners but uh it’s not clear yet whether or not these two will be able to find Common Grounds to come to an agreement because one side plans to wipe out the other side entirely uh and to totally remove it as a force within Gaza Strip great points you’re making Mr Canon one of them you pointed out is about the hostages and as we’ve seen over the weekend you know uh protests out in um hostage Square out in Tel Aviv many not pleased with the Israeli government and they feel they’ve been for a lack of better worse lack when it comes to getting those hostages home but as you mentioned we can’t forget the Israeli military from the very beginning saying they will not stop until Hamas is defeated kind of a double-edged sword if you think about it you know people want the war to end but also they want the hostages returned home safely yeah there is a difference in what is the number one priority uh among the Israelis uh some see the hostages as the number one prior getting the hostages the the uh remaining hostages back to Israel uh then there’s the other side that uh wants to totally remove Hamas as a future threat and so that they want to uh push the war until they have neutralized Hamas totally um prime minister Netanyahu is between a rock and a hard place in that he has members within his cabinet on both sides Ben gravar and others are are with the ultra nationalists with the far right who are pushing to totally push on through Rafa and rid the Gaza Strip of Hamas while the more moderates like byy gadz want to get the hostages home and both sides are talking about leaving the cabinet and calling causing the government to fall if uh if they don’t get their way so again Netanyahu not only has voiced his own opinion that he wants to go into Rafa but he’s also battling two different forces within his own cabinet and the protests continue there in Israel against uh the the war efforts trying to get the hostages home they want the hostages to be the number one priority absolutely and as all of this is happening we can’t forget about the humanitarian crisis out in the Rafa area one that is about to be invaded yet again um by the Israeli military and would this ceasefire Mr Kent help this humanitarian crisis to allow more people to come in and possibly help without fear of being attacked themselves or do you think that it might draw attention away from the humanitarian crisis since people might not be talking about the war so the head of the International Red Cross and the red crescent said that um that a quarter of the Palestinians are now in Starvation phase and so this humanitarian crisis is at a a point where people are dying from uh the the lack of food lack of water lack of uh medicine this is really a a crisis point and so they need to have the ability to be able to bring humanitarian Aid into there the reason they’re not able to do so at this point is multifold one is the fact that uh there is no security Force to add uh to um to travel with the food as it moves in so Hamas has been grabbing some of those supplies themselves two is that there’s a fear by the Israelis that supplies for Hamas are being passed into the Gaza Strip in those humanitarian Aid packages so they are searching through all the packages they’re searching through the the the the trucks coming into the area the the pier is still under construction with the idea of trying to get more supplies in through the water that way however that’s going to still take another month to be completed and so uh this humanitarian crisis which we’ve seem to have forgotten about over the last 3 weeks uh continues to mount right now Israel uh is planning their final stages of entering into Rafa prime minister Netanyahu has uh ordered the IDF to to come up with a plan to evacuate the Palestinians from the Rafa area and so that they can enter Rafa and and attack Hamas um we will see whether or not that is even Fe able but uh there’s 1.2 million Palestinians huddled down at the southern end of the Gaza Strip and uh that is also where hamas’s battalions are or Battalion is and that um IDF has got to go into Rafa if they are going to confront Hamas but to do so the Palestinians are being used as a shield just like the hostages were being used as a shield Mr K always a pleasure of speaking with you here on live now from Fox to get the most upto-date and accurate information thank you so much for joining us this morning is there anything else You’ like to add before we let you go so uh you know the uh Hezbollah is still a problem here uh and uh Israel has got to decide whether or not they want to pursue Hezbollah on another active front they have what I would refer to as a warm front going on uh in the north there uh has sends missiles down uh Israel responds with either air strikes or artillery rounds but uh that has been going on throughout this entire period with highs and lows with the number of missiles being exchanged but nonetheless Hezbollah poses the same type of existential threat to Israel that Hamas does and so as long as uh Israel has the IDF all manned up they are considering whether or not they should move in to Southern Lebanon and rid the area of Hezbollah just like they moved into the Gaza Strip to try to get rid of Hamas uh so I think that that is yet to be seen whether or not uh Israel opens up another active front to the north absolutely just further showing that there are several conflicts going on in the Middle East and how some of them are connected and some are separate Mr Kenra always a pleasure speaking with you here on live now you enjoy the rest of your day thank you Jan

Israel vs Hamas today: Prospects for a Gaza ceasefire appear to be slim as Hamas demands for an end to the war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “Hamas remains entrenched in its extreme positions, first among them the demand to remove all our forces from the Gaza strip, end the war, and leave Hamas in power. Israel cannot accept this.”

Truce talks in Cairo with Egyptian Qatari mediators continues, according to Palestinian officials.

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