Negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza have reached an impasse, Egyptian officials say. The Palestinian Islamist movement initially accepted the proposal, but wants it to result in a more permanent ceasefire.
Israel, absent from these talks, has publicly excluded. The latest report released Thursday by the Hamas Ministry of Health shows 30,800 people killed in Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war. Three members of the crew of a merchant ship were killed Wednesday in the Gulf of Aden by a missile from Yemen.