Hibapress / Radio-Canada
Talks on a truce in the Gaza Strip will be held in Qatar on Thursday, three sources close to the negotiations said on Wednesday, at a time when the Palestinian territory, ravaged by more than ten months of war, is suffering intensive bombardments by the Israeli army.
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which have been fighting in the small coastal strip since the Palestinian Islamist movement attacked Israeli soil on October 7, is being strongly demanded by the international community.
US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that a ceasefire could prevent an Iranian attack on Israel, announced by Tehran in retaliation for the assassination, which it blames on the Israeli state, of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital on July 31.
Mr. Biden assured that he did not give up this objective, although negotiations for a truce are becoming difficult.
The White House said the US president and his vice-president, Kamala Harris, met with their advisers on Wednesday in the Situation Roomthe nerve center of the American state apparatus in the event of an international crisis, to take stock of the situation.
