Hamas received a new ceasefire proposal from Israel and is studying it, at a time when the Gaza Health Ministry warns that it has lost all capacity to test and chlorinate drinking water in the strip, where Israel claims to have attacked 25 Hamas targets in the last 24 hours. On the other hand, in the Red Sea, Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for an attack carried out with ballistic missiles against a British oil tanker.
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Hamas claims to be studying since Saturday, April 27, Israel's official response to its position on the ceasefire talks and the truce proposal for the exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, according to a statement from the group's deputy head in Gaza. , Khalil Al-Hayya.
Israel has warned that it will not allow the Palestinian group to delay responding and threatens intervention in Rafah. So on Friday, a delegation from the mediators – Egypt, Qatar and the United States – was in Israel to discuss the matter.
According to EFE sources, Israel would be willing to stop military operations for six weeks, allow the return of displaced people to northern Gaza and give initial approval for an exchange of hostages held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. .
According to the Israeli newspaper Walla, For humanitarian reasons, Israel is interested in the release of 33 kidnapped people.
No more drinking water in Gaza
In the strip, the Gaza Ministry of Health warns that it has lost all capacity to analyze and chlorinate drinking water.
This situation It is a product of the closure of the Public Health Laboratory and the lack of chlorine to treat the water. In a statement the ministry assures:
All citizens of the Gaza Strip are drinking unsafe water, putting their lives at risk.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNRWA) highlights the “water shortage in Rafah”, an issue that Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, UN special rapporteur, emphasized since last November when he called on Israel to stop using water as a weapon of war.
“Every hour that passes while Israel prevents the supply of drinking water to the Gaza Strip, in flagrant violation of international law, puts Gazans at risk of dying from thirst and from diseases related to the lack of drinking water,” he assured.
As a result of the Israeli offensive in the field, this Saturday, April 27, The Gaza Health Ministry, controlled by Hamas, reports at least 34,388 Palestinians dead and another 77,437 injured.
This escalation began on October 7, when the Hamas group violently broke into Israel, leaving 1,200 dead, according to the Israeli government, which began a persecution to destroy Hamas in Gaza, which continues. In the last 24 hours, 32 people have died and another 69 have been injured, according to official data in the enclave.
Israel claims to have attacked 25 targets in Gaza
In the last few hours, the Israeli Armed Forces claimed to have attacked 25 alleged targets of Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip.
They speak of military infrastructures in which alleged armed combatants operated, weapons warehouses and underground infrastructure, which they attacked with military fighter jets and drones.
![A house in ruins in the Shebaa border area of southern Lebanon following an Israeli attack on April 27, 2024, amid continuing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza.](https://s.france24.com/media/display/37764e8a-04a7-11ef-beb6-005056bf30b7/000_34QB7Z8.jpg)
They fired at a point used to launch rockets against the city of Ashdod, north of the Strip; and also against another area, intended for the same purpose, in the southern Gazan town of Khan Younis, with the aim of attacking Israeli troops.
In central Gaza, they destroyed a vehicle in which eight alleged members of the Hamas group were traveling and attacked another group of alleged combatants in military installations, prepared to fire on Israeli forces in that area.
New attack on an oil tanker in the Red Sea
Yemen's Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for a ballistic missile attack on a British oil tanker in the Red Sea, which caused minor damage to the vessel.
The military spokesman Houthis Yahya Sarea said in a statement that the British-owned oil tanker MV Andromeda Star was attacked in the Red Sea “with a series of appropriate naval missiles” that “directly” hit the vessel.
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said the ship, flagged in Panama and operated by Seychelles, was attacked with three ballistic missiles on Thursday at 5:49 p.m. local time (14:49 GMT) and reported “minor damage, but continues its journey.” “.
According to CENTCOM, the attack was also directed against the oil tanker MV MAISHA, flagged by Antigua and Barbuda and operated by Liberia, but did not reach the vessel.
The Houthis also stated that on the same day they managed to shoot down a US MQ9 attack drone in Yemeni airspace.
![Yemeni protesters raise rifles during a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel rally in the Houthi-controlled capital Sana'a on April 26, 2024.](https://s.france24.com/media/display/41b28408-04a8-11ef-86f2-005056bf30b7/000_34QC8YY.jpg)
Yemeni insurgents have been attacking commercial ships since November 19 in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and to economically affect Israel.
With EFE, Reuters, AFP and local sources
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