Hamas tells Israel to cease Gaza City attacks as captives’ lives in danger

Hamas has issued a “warning” that Israeli tanks are moving deeper into several neighborhoods of the besieged city center, where thousands of Palestinians are trapped by Israel’s ground invasion and bombardment, to put the lives of two captives in Gaza City at risk.

Following “brutal military operations and violent targeting in the Sabra and Tal al-Hawa neighbourhoods in the last 48 hours,” the Palestinian armed wing of the Palestinian group, the Qassam Brigades, announced on Sunday that contact with fighters are no longer a possibility.

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The occupation forces must immediately leave to the south of Road 8 and suspend aerial sorties for 24 hours beginning at 8:00 PM (GMT) until an attempt is made to rescue the two prisoners, it said.

In another attempt to stop the Israeli army from deliberately destroying Gaza City and displacing hundreds of thousands of starving Palestinians once more, Hamas released a “farewell picture” of captives in Gaza this month.

In Gaza, according to Israel, there are still 48 captives, 20 of whom are still alive. Despite being increasingly accused of carrying out genocide and as Israeli families call and demand a comprehensive agreement to end the conflict and reunite all of the captured people, the nation has continued to refuse to stop it.

The far-right government of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has not heard their pleas, and their relatives and supporters accuse the government of continuing to be held captive.

Hamas’ political wing claimed in a statement earlier on Sunday that the organization had not received any new ceasefire or peace proposals from Qatar and Egypt, despite President Trump’s repeated proclamations of an imminent ceasefire.

As the group gathered to review a new ceasefire proposal proposed by Trump, the group confirmed that negotiations are still halted after Israel attempted to assassinate top Hamas leaders in Doha on September 9.

Hamas stated that it is “ready to take any suggestion from the brother mediators with positivity and responsibility, in a way that protects our people’s national rights.”

A 21-point plan proposed by Trump and any other agreement that would end the war before erassing Hamas are opposed by far-right Israeli ministers who spoke out on Sunday.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the minister of national security, wrote in a post on X that the government had no authority to declare the warfare without the Hamas’s own victory.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich vowed to “never consent to a Palestinian state, no matter how difficult, expensive, or time-consuming it may be.”

Since the start of the conflict in October 2023, more than 66, 000 Palestinians have died in the Gaza Strip, according to the enclave’s Ministry of Health.

On Sunday, dozens more Palestinians were killed in airstrikes, shelling, or while seeking aid, including a child who was attacked the Sabra neighborhood. An infant died from malnutrition and inadequate medical care, according to a report from Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis city in southern Gaza.

The al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, which was once the largest medical facility in the country but is now mostly destroyed by several previous Israeli sieges, is also getting closer to Israeli tanks.