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At least 11 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids and strikes in several towns in the north of the occupied West Bank Wednesday, as talks aiming to secure a Gaza truce and hostage release deal continued in Qatar, a U.S. official said.

Neither Israel nor Hamas has confirmed their participation.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry expressed strong condemnation on Tuesday regarding an Israeli assault on journalists from the Turkish public broadcaster TRT, characterizing it as "an effort by bloodstained Israel to conceal the truth."

Journalists film before Israeli army armoured vehicles deployed at the entrance of the Tulkarm camp for Palestinian refugees, during an ongoing Israeli raid in Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank on Aug. 22, 2024.

The Israeli military has issued so many evacuation orders in 10 months of war that many Gaza civilians no longer heed them, despairing of finding space or safety in the shrinking "humanitarian" zones.

Over the first three weeks of August, the Israeli army sent out 11 evacuation orders via flyers dropped from planes, text messages or social media.

France, Germany, and the United Kingdom stated today that “there can be no further delay” in conducting negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza, warning “Iran and its allies” against any “new escalation” of the conflict.

More than 75,000 Palestinians have been displaced in southwest Gaza in the past few days, the head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Sunday.

"Over the decades, Palestinian civilians have been caught up in wars and conflicts, far too many times," Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA commissioner-general, said on X.

The Israeli army has killed 40 more Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, taking the overall death toll to 39,790 since last Oct. 7, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Saturday.

A ministry statement added that some 91,702 other people have been injured in the assault.

Israel has agreed to resume Gaza ceasefire talks next week at the request of international mediators as Palestinians on Aug. 9  tried to escape a new Israeli military operation in Gaza's main southern area.

The Israeli government yesterday agreed to resume talks next Thursday, August 15, aimed at declaring a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and releasing hostages remaining in the hands of Hamas, following intervention by the mediating countries, the US, Egypt and Qatar, which warned the belligerents that “there is no time to waste nor excuse” for further delays.

Yesterday, Israel warned that it would eliminate the new leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, as the war in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian Islamist movement, now in its eleventh month, threatens to spread across the Middle East.