Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a date has been set for a military operation in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Prime Minister Netanyahu's announcement said: "Today, I received a detailed report on the progress of the negotiations in Cairo (Egypt), we are making every effort to achieve our goals, first of all the release of all hostages and a complete victory over Hamas." However, the Israeli leader did not reveal the specific timing of the operation.
Meanwhile, an official from the Hamas Islamist movement said on the same day that no progress had been made in Cairo talks on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. This information contradicts the information that Al-Qahera News channel had reported earlier that the talks on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip had made progress after the participants agreed on the basics. On April 7, Israel and Hamas both sent representatives to Cairo to participate in the negotiations, along with the participation of Qatari and Egyptian mediators and the Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) William Burns.
Rafah is home to some 1.4 million displaced Palestinians and is also a point of entry for aid to Gaza. The fate of Rafah's residents is of particular concern to humanitarian organizations and Israel's allies, who have warned that an Israeli offensive into the densely populated area would be catastrophic.
In another development, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resumed consideration of Palestine's application for full UN membership and decided to refer the process to the Admission Committee.
The admission of new members to the UN is decided by the UN General Assembly based on the recommendation of the Security Council, where the member applying for admission needs to receive the support of 9/15 members of the Security Council and no veto by any permanent member. Currently, Palestine is an observer member of the UN.
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