What has happened in the last few hours
These are the main news of the day in the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza at 12:00 this Sunday, May 5:
US universities celebrate graduations amid tension and arrests due to protests. Graduation ceremonies are taking place this weekend in many educational centers in the country, which take place amid tension due to the mobilizations in favor of Palestine that have spread throughout the country. This year, in the shadow of campus protests, some institutions have chosen to cancel or postpone those events. Others, the majority, to reinforce security to avoid riots.
Negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza continue. The process is progressing positively and an agreement in principle is approaching, although the parties have not yet closed any definitive agreement, according to sources familiar with the talks taking place in Cairo. A Palestinian source told the Efe Agency, on condition of anonymity, that “there is great progress in the negotiations between the Palestinian movement Hamas and Israel,” and detailed that the Egyptian delegation in the negotiating process “has reached an agreed formulation regarding to the points of discrepancy.”
Tens of thousands of Israelis call for the release of the hostages and early elections. The protests took place this Saturday night in different cities in Israel, including Tel Aviv, where one of the largest concentrations took place, in favor of the agreement for the release of hostages that is currently being negotiated and the celebration of early elections. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, organizers of the demonstration in Tel Aviv, demanded that the Government of Benjamin Netanyahu make the “correct and courageous” decision and bring the kidnapped people home.
Gazan authorities put the death toll in the Strip due to the Israeli offensive since October 7 at more than 34,680. The Ministry of Health, controlled by Hamas, has put this Sunday at 34,683 deaths – most of them children and women – in the Strip since the Israeli offensive began on October 7, in response to the terrorist attack against Israeli territory perpetrated that day by the Islamist militia Hamas.
