Israeli forces shell Gaza on war anniversary, Hamas and Israel discuss Trump plan

Israeli tanks, boats and jets pounded parts of Gaza connected Tuesday, giving Palestinians nary respite connected the day of the Hamas onslaught that led to 2 years of warfare and underlining the challenges astatine talks connected Donald Trump's program to halt the conflict.

Israel pressed connected with its offensive, residents said, aft Hamas and Israel began indirect negotiations connected Monday successful the Egyptian edifice of Sharm el-Sheikh connected delicate issues specified arsenic Israel's withdrawal from Gaza and Hamas' disarmament.

The talks connected the U.S. president's program are wide seen arsenic the astir promising yet for ending a warfare that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and devastated Gaza since the October 7, 2023 onslaught connected Israel which killed 1,200 people.

Residents successful Khan Younis successful confederate Gaza and Gaza City successful the northbound reported dense bombing from tanks and planes successful the aboriginal hours connected Tuesday, witnesses said. Israeli forces pounded respective districts from the air, oversea and ground, they said.

Gaza militants fired rockets crossed the borderline aboriginal connected Tuesday, mounting disconnected aerial raid sirens astatine Israeli kibbutz Netiv Haasara, and Israeli troops continued to tackle gunmen wrong the enclave, the Israeli subject said.

Marking the day of the attack, an umbrella of Palestinian factions including Hamas, the Islamic Jihad and smaller militant groups vowed "the prime of absorption by each means is the sole and lone mode to face the Zionist enemy."

"No 1 has the close to cede the weapons of the Palestinian people. This morganatic weapon... volition beryllium passed done the Palestinian generations until their onshore and ineffable sites are liberated," the connection issued successful the sanction of "Factions of the Palestinian Resistance" said.

Israelis marking the 2nd day of the Hamas onslaught - successful which 251 radical were taken backmost to Gaza arsenic hostages - gathered astatine immoderate of the worst-hit sites of that time and astatine Tel Aviv's alleged Hostages Square.

"It's similar an unfastened wound, the hostages, I can't judge it's been 2 years and they are inactive not home," said Hilda Weisthal, 43. "I truly anticipation that each the leaders volition marque a propulsion and that this warfare volition end."

In Gaza, Mohammed Dib, 49, voiced akin hopes of an extremity to the conflict.

"It's been 2 years that we are surviving successful fear, horror, displacement and destruction," helium said. "We are hoping, with these caller negotiations, to scope a ceasefire and a last extremity to the war."

Israel is negotiating from a presumption of strength. It responded to the 2023 onslaught by launching its violative to destruct Hamas successful Gaza, portion besides assassinating the apical Hamas leaders extracurricular the Strip and different Iranian-backed groups specified arsenic Lebanon's Hezbollah and weakening Yemen's Houthis.

It besides killed Iran's apical subject commanders and attacked Iranian atomic facilities during a 12-day warfare which was joined by the United States.

But Israel's subject onslaught connected Gaza, which section wellness authorities accidental has killed implicit 67,000 radical and has flattened the tiny enclave, isolated the state connected the satellite stage.

Some Western leaders person recognised Palestinian statehood and pro-Palestinian protests person erupted astir the world.

Israel and Hamas person some endorsed the wide principles down Trump's plan, nether which warring would cease, hostages spell escaped and assistance determination into Gaza.

The program besides has the backing of Arab and Western states. Trump has called for negotiations to instrumentality spot swiftly towards a last deal, successful what Washington hails arsenic the closest the sides person yet travel to ending the conflict.

Trump has invested important governmental superior successful efforts to extremity the war.

Even if a woody is clinched during talks successful Egypt, large questions volition linger, including who volition regularisation Gaza and rebuild it.

Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu person ruled retired immoderate relation for Hamas, which seized Gaza successful 2007 aft defeating its rivals successful a little civilian war.

Though Trump says helium wants a woody quickly, an authoritative briefed connected the negotiations, speaking connected information of anonymity, said helium expected the circular of talks that started connected Monday would necessitate astatine slightest a fewer days.

An authoritative progressive successful ceasefire readying and a Palestinian root said Trump's 72-hour deadline for the hostages' instrumentality could beryllium unachievable for dormant hostages. Their remains whitethorn request to beryllium located and recovered from scattered sites.

The Israeli delegation includes officials from spy agencies Mossad and Shin Bet, Netanyahu's overseas argumentation advisor Ophir Falk and hostages coordinator Gal Hirsch. Israel's main negotiator, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, was expected to articulation aboriginal this week, pending developments successful the negotiations, according to 3 Israeli officials.

The Hamas delegation is led by the group's exiled Gaza leader, Khalil Al-Hayya, who survived an Israeli airstrike successful the Qatari capital, a period ago.

The U.S. has sent peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law who has beardown ties to the Middle East, the White House said.