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The deal as envisioned would see a six-week pause in fighting and the release of dozens of Israeli hostages in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Negotiations remained at an impasse, however, with Israel accusing Hamas of stalling in a bid to inflame violence across the region during Islam’s holy month, and Hamas saying more Israeli hostages have died in captivity than earlier believed. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Israel has threatened to invade Rafah, the last bastion of Hamas in Gaza and where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering, if the talks fail. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has said Israel won’t stop its campaign until the Iran-backed militant group is destroyed, with its main leaders killed, captured or exiled. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an interview with MSNBC on Saturday, Biden expressed hope that a ceasefire agreement may still be reached and warned that an Israeli invasion of Rafah would represent a “red line.”</span>\r\n\r\n<b>Read more:</b> <a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-08/timing-is-everything-for-israel-hamas-truce-as-humanitarian-crisis-worsens\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Timing is everything for Israel-Hamas truce: Balance of Power</span></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His comments came as US Central Command began sending supplies to Gaza to build a temporary dock to deliver large quantities of humanitarian aid by sea. Ships will carry food, water, medicine and other supplies to the coastal enclave. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US has been pushing for increased aid for Palestinians in Gaza, where a hunger crisis has developed during the five-month war, and sought to rein in Israel’s military activity. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The war has been raging since Hamas operatives killed 1,200 people and abducted 250 during their 7 October massacre in southern Israel. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October, according to officials in the Hamas-run territory. 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A Hamas official, in an interview with Bloomberg, claimed dozens have been killed by Israeli fire.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“At least 60 of the occupation’s prisoners have been killed at the hands of the occupation army during the continuous bombardment all over the Gaza Strip,” said Husam Badran. The claim couldn’t be independently verified. </span>\r\n<h4><b>Gaza faces humanitarian catastrophe as aid corridor set to open - EU </b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The European Union and partners including the US were set to launch a maritime aid corridor to Gaza as soon as this past weekend — a means to get urgent aid to desperate civilians caught in the Israel-Hamas war.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Cyprus to announce the initiative on Friday. The plan would see ships carry food and medical supplies from the Cypriot town of Larnaca across the Mediterranean Sea to Gaza, where the US plans to set up a </span><a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-07/biden-to-direct-military-to-establish-gaza-port-to-deliver-aid\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">temporary port </span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to receive shipments.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The efforts — including security checks — will be coordinated with Israel, which controls all but one of Gaza’s land borders as well as its territorial waters and airspace, according to a statement. The EU and the US will also work with the UK and United Arab Emirates.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The move is seen as a way to top up the limited volumes of aid entering Gaza via the land border with Egypt after five months of war, which have seen Israel relentlessly bombard the enclave of two million people in pursuit of Hamas militants and infrastructure. The US last week started </span><a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-02/gaza-ceasefire-talks-to-resume-in-egypt-on-sunday-reuters-says\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">airdrops of food</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, though that was not seen as enough to arrest an increasingly dire humanitarian crisis.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“We are here because Palestinians, and in particular those in Gaza, need all our help,” Von der Leyen said. “We are facing a humanitarian catastrophe.”</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EU is increasingly frustrated about the blocking of aid flows to the enclave, though the bloc remains split over its approach to Israel and its military campaign. EU leaders will address the Middle East crisis when they hold a summit in Brussels later this month, but it’s unclear whether they will be able to agree on a joint statement calling for a humanitarian pause or a ceasefire.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden said on Thursday that he had </span><a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-07/biden-to-direct-military-to-establish-gaza-port-to-deliver-aid\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ordered</span></a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the military to create a temporary port on the Gaza coast, and used his State of the Union speech to call on Israel to let in more aid. 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