{"id":51773,"date":"2024-05-04T18:51:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T08:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=51773"},"modified":"2024-05-04T18:51:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T08:51:52","slug":"hamas-delegation-heads-to-cairo-for-truce-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=51773","title":{"rendered":"Hamas delegation heads to Cairo for truce talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hamas said its delegation was heading to Cairo on Saturday to resume Gaza truce talks, as the United Nations warned that Israel&#8217;s threatened assault on the city of Rafah could produce a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foreign mediators have been waiting for the Palestinian militant group to respond to a proposal to halt fighting for 40 days and exchange hostages for Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only thing standing between the people of Gaza and a ceasefire is Hamas,&#8221; US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Months of negotiations have stalled in part on Hamas&#8217;s demand for a lasting ceasefire and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s repeated vows to crush the group&#8217;s remaining fighters in Rafah.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken on Friday also reiterated Washington&#8217;s objections to the long-threatened Rafah offensive, saying Israel has not presented a plan to protect the civilians sheltering there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamas said its delegation was heading to Cairo on Saturday to resume Gaza truce talks, as the United Nations warned that Israel&#8217;s threatened assault on the city of Rafah could produce a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221;. Foreign mediators have been waiting for the Palestinian militant group to respond to a proposal to halt fighting for 40 days and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1381],"class_list":["post-51773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-hamas-delegation-heads-to-cairo-for-truce-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}