Hamas confirmed on Tuesday February 6 that it had submitted its response – “generally positive”, according to the Egyptian and Qatari mediators who received it – to a truce proposal. As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's plane landed in Tel Aviv, bombings and fighting continued less than a hundred kilometers to the south, in the Gazan towns of Khan Younes and Rafah.
The UN has warned that a ground invasion there could “ constitute a war crime ”.