Israel says the offer doesnt meet its key demands, but it will negotiate. It comes after 100,000 palestinians were told to leave the Southern City of rafah ahead of an anticipated Ground Offensive. Refugees were told to move to what israel called a humanitarian zone near khan younis an area gazans say is already overcrowded. 0ur reporter Vincent Mcaviney has more. Overnight, israel conducted what it described as targeted strikes against hamas in eastern rafah. The major Ground Operation anticipated for several weeks has not materialised. Late last night, the Israeli Government deployed a Negotiating Delegation to egypt that it said would explore reaching an agreement under conditions acceptable to israel. Earlier in the day, there had been a jubilant mood in gaza after hamas accepted a Ceasefire Proposal being brokered by qatari and egyptian mediators. The details of the deal are still not confirmed, but its thought to include the release of all hostages in return for palestinian priso
Of hope yesterday. These were the scenes outside the al aqsa hospital as palestinians celebrated news that hamas had accepted a Ceasefire Deal. But this was rejected by israel as far from meeting its core demands. Instead, the countrys war cabinet voted to continue operations in rafah. Talks are resuming in cairo and israel is sending a delegation to the talks. Live injerusalem is our middle east bureau chief, jo floto. In cairo, bbc arabic reporter, abdelbassir hassan. Lets speak to our middle east correspondent, jo floto. What we know is happening on the ground in the moment . We understand that the Israeli Ground in the moment . We understand that the Israeli Military ground in the moment . We understand that the Israeli Military are ground in the moment . We understand that the Israeli Military are still that the Israeli Military are still in control of that area of rafah. They took tanks in to take control of the Border Crossing and areas around it, and we are told Special Forces
The israeli army has said it has operational control of their rafah crossing here, this is a fellow because mortars were fired from this area killing four other soldiers. We have not verified this ourselves but we have verified several videos circulating on social media of israeli armoured vehicles including this one, which appeared online this morning. It shows a tank ramming into two palestinian flags at the crossing on the gaza side. There is a long shadow stretching on the ground from west to east suggesting it was early in the morning. We have located it to hear by looking at pictures of Satellite Images of the crossing. Overnight, there was continuous israeli bombardment on the border city. We verified this video which was sent to the bbc by someone in khan younis looking towards rafah. You can see some of the players in the sky. Israel claims 20 hamas fighters have been killed but there are also reports of civilian casualties. Israel says it has warned people of it strikes. One
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