Israel has closed the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza after Hamas fired rockets from throughout the strip.
Israel mentioned the assault killed three of its troopers, injuring a number of others.
The crossing is without doubt one of the few routes to get humanitarian assist, together with meals and medical provides, into Gaza.
Mediators within the Egypt have held two days of talks aimed toward securing a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the discharge of hostages held by Hamas.
In a press release, Hamas mentioned the most recent spherical had ended on Sunday and that its delegation would now journey from Cairo to Qatar to seek the advice of with the group’s management.
The CIA chief William Burns, who has additionally been concerned in mediation efforts, has additionally left the Egyptian capital for talks in Doha, in line with studies.
The truce proposal is believed to contain a 40-day pause in preventing whereas hostages are launched, and the discharge of a lot of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails.
Hamas mentioned it seen the present proposal in a “constructive mild”, however the primary sticking level seems to be whether or not the ceasefire deal can be everlasting or short-term.
The group is insisting any deal makes a particular dedication in direction of an finish to the warfare, however Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected that on Sunday.
“The state of Israel can not settle for this [Hamas’s demands], we aren’t ready to simply accept a scenario wherein the Hamas brigades come out of their bunkers, take management of Gaza once more, rebuild their navy infrastructure, and return to threatening the residents of Israel within the settlements surrounding the southern mountains, in all elements of the nation.
“This shall be a horrible defeat for the state of Israel,” he added.
The warfare started after waves of Hamas gunmen stormed throughout Gaza’s border into Israel on 7 October, killing about 1,200 folks and taking greater than 250 hostages. The group is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by many Western nations.
Through the subsequent Israeli navy marketing campaign in Gaza, greater than 34,600 Palestinians have been killed and over 77,900 wounded, in line with figures from the territory’s Hamas-run well being ministry.
Mr Netanyahu has confronted strain from inside his far-right coalition to press forward with the long-promised offensive in Gaza’s southern-most metropolis, Rafah, the place an estimated 1.4 million folks have taken shelter after fleeing preventing in northern and central elements of the strip.
The US is reluctant to again a navy operation that would trigger important civilian casualties, and has insisted on seeing a plan to guard displaced Palestinians first.
The Israeli authorities additionally faces mounting strain at dwelling.
Of the 252 hostages who had been kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October, 128 are nonetheless unaccounted for – and amongst them, a minimum of 34 are presumed useless.
Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing, says it carried out the assault on the Kerem Shalom crossing, saying it had focused troops with short-range rockets.
The Israeli Protection Forces (IDF) mentioned 10 projectiles had been fired from an space close to the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza, about 3.6km (2.2 miles) from Kerem Shalom.
The IDF mentioned they had been fired from a web site some 350m from a civilian shelter, earlier than it destroyed the launcher and a close-by navy web site.
It known as the launches “one other clear instance of the terrorist organisation’s systematic exploitation of humanitarian services and areas, and their continued use of the Gazan civilian inhabitants as human shields”.
Ceasefire talks have gone on for months with no breakthrough, and there has not been a pause in preventing or a launch of hostages because the finish of November.
There have been moments at which a brand new settlement has appeared imminent – solely to fall by way of earlier than being signed.
