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Thailand is profoundly concerned about and disappointed at the return to hostilities in the Gaza Strip,
said a Thai foreign ministry statement released on Friday
The only reason they went back to the negotiating table was military pressure, and that's what we're doing right now,
he told reporters
We stopped the supply going in because Hamas was stealing it for its own use,
he saidWe are ready to accept any agreement regarding the administration of Gaza (post-war), and are not interested in participating in it,
Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif al-Qanou said in a statement Saturday
We are exhausted by the cycle of displacement,
Ramadan Houdoud told AFP in a tent camp in Al-Zawayda in the centre of the territory, after fleeing from Gaza CityThere is no water, no food, and no rest."
Displaced woman Umm Khaled lamented the destruction, addingHamas must show compassion for Gaza, its children, women and men,
Fatah spokesman Monther al-Hayek said in a message sent to AFP from GazaWhat's important to us is the national consensus,
he added, recallingWhere can we go? We need a solution. Are there really no more Muslims to help us?"
she askedTo the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD,
the US president posted earlier this month
It feels as if the hostages and their families are being viewed now as collateral damage,
said Chen, who has not taken a day off from the families' struggle in over 530 days
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I ordered (the army) to seize more territory in Gaza... The more Hamas refuses to free the hostages, the more territory it will lose, which will be annexed by Israel".
In a statement Friday, Katz said
The IDF (military) struck terrorists in a Hamas terrorist infrastructure site that previously had served as a hospital in the central Gaza Strip,
a military spokesperson told AFP in response to a question about the Turkish accusationsGaza must not become a battleground for political game. Civilian lives must not be sacrificed for political calculations. A lasting ceasefire must be realized in Gaza,
the Chinese envoy said
Securing a lasting ceasefire is the best way to save lives and bring hostages home, and it is an overriding priority,
he noted, while urging Israel to abandon its obsession with the use of force, immediately cease its military operations against Gaza, and lift blockade on the access of humanitarian supplies into GazaHamas bears full responsibility for the ongoing war in Gaza and for the resumption of hostilities. Every death would have been avoided had Hamas accepted the bridge proposal that the United States offered last Wednesday,
acting U.S. ambassador Dorothy Shea told the council
We can stretch that by giving people less, but we are talking days, not weeks,
UNRWA official Sam Rose told reporters in Geneva by video link from GazaSix of 25 bakeries that the World Food Programme were supporting had to close down,
Rose addedWe will intensify the fighting with strikes from the air, sea and land and by expanding the ground manoeuvre until the hostages are released and Hamas is defeated,
Mr Katz said
We're very, very worried that our country is becoming a dictatorship,
Rinat Hadashi, 59, told Reuters in Jerusalem on Thursday