伦敦和耶路撒冷以色列美国安全内阁批准了一项停火与哈马斯，总理办公室周四宣布。

以色列总理内塔尼亚胡办公室星期四晚上发表声明说，政治安全内阁接受了“无条件双边停火”的建议。

声明称:“参谋长、军事梯队和新贝特负责人与部长们一起回顾了以色列在这场战役中取得的巨大成就，其中一些成就是前所未有的。”。"政治梯队强调，当地的现实将决定竞选的继续。"

控制加沙地带的巴勒斯坦激进组织哈马斯也同意停火。

哈马斯政治局负责人的媒体顾问塔赫尔·辜莞允在周四晚上的一份声明中说，“已经就加沙地带的相互和同时停火达成了协议。”

停火将于当地时间凌晨2点开始，即美国东部时间下午7点。埃及国家通讯社中东通讯社称，埃及将向特拉维夫和巴勒斯坦地区派遣两个安全代表团。

通过Shutterstock的图像

2021年5月20日，巴勒斯坦人聚集在加沙地带南部拉法的以色列空袭后。

已有打电话在以色列军方和哈马斯连续11天的战斗后，双方同意立即停火。

以色列国防军(IDF)周四表示，从加沙地带向以色列的火箭袭击于当地时间周四凌晨1点至9点停止，这是自上周暴力爆发以来最长的暂停。然而，以色列继续对加沙地带进行空袭，称其希望阻止哈马斯未来的袭击。

据巴勒斯坦卫生部称，自上周以来，至少有232人——包括65名儿童和39名妇女——在以色列对加沙地带的空袭中丧生。另有约1900人受伤。

与此同时，至少有10人——包括一名士兵和一名6岁的儿童——在以色列的火箭袭击中丧生，另有3人在前往防空洞的途中受重伤而死亡。根据以色列国家紧急服务局的消息，另有348人受伤。

据白宫称，美国总统乔·拜登周三在电话中告诉内塔尼亚胡，他“预计今天在停火的道路上局势会显著缓和”。但内塔尼亚胡拒绝了，几个小时后他说，他感谢“美国总统的支持”，但他的国家将推进“恢复平静和安全”的公民。

内塔尼亚胡星期三在访问以色列军事总部后对记者说:“我决心继续这项行动，直到达到目标。”。

停火宣布后，拜登在周四晚上的讲话中说，他与内塔尼亚胡进行了交谈，并“赞扬他决定在不到11天的时间内结束目前的敌对行动”。

总统说:“我相信巴勒斯坦人和以色列人同样应该安全地生活，享受同等程度的自由、繁荣和民主。”。"为此，我的政府将继续我们平静而无情的外交努力."

以色列国防部长本尼·甘茨(Benny Gantz)周四晚还与美国国防部长劳埃德·奥斯汀(Lloyd J. Austin)进行了交谈，感谢美国“支持以色列保护平民的行动”，并表示“希望停火得到遵守”。根据一份声明，甘茨对奥斯汀说，“以色列国防机构将继续与五角大楼和美国政府密切合作，充分协调，以深化地区稳定。”

美国国务卿安东尼·布林肯(Antony Blinken)周三表示推特周四晚些时候，他将前往该地区，并期待着会见外交部长和其他以色列，巴勒斯坦和地区领导人。

巴勒斯坦前卫生部长、现任哈马斯国际关系委员会主席巴塞姆·纳伊姆博士此前曾在周二晚上告诉美国广播公司新闻，哈马斯将在两个条件下接受与以色列军方的相互停火协议。

奈姆说:“首先，以色列军队必须停止对阿斯卡大院的入侵，并尊重该地点。”。“第二，以色列必须停止强迫撤离谢赫贾拉社区的巴勒斯坦居民。这一条件符合国际法，而不仅仅是哈马斯当局期望的条件。”

但据一名直接了解此事的以色列官员称，以色列对此不感兴趣。

“我们说过早停止是为了给哈马斯它想要的胜利，”这位以色列官员周二晚上告诉美国广播公司新闻。“哈马斯必须从这场失败中走出来。”

巴沙尔·塔勒布/法新社通过盖蒂图像

2021年5月20日，一团火球从加沙市里马尔住宅区的一栋建筑中喷发出来

在正式确认停火之前，以色列媒体曾报道即将停火，但该地区的一些分析家对双方是否愿意放下武器表示怀疑。前巴勒斯坦内阁部长加桑·哈提卜现在在以色列占领的约旦河西岸拉马拉附近的比尔宰特大学教授政治学，他说这不太可能，因为以色列总理正在寻求连任。

哈提卜周四告诉美国广播公司新闻，“在哈马斯和以色列之间现有的战斗平衡中，如果内塔尼亚胡现在停止，加沙将声称取得胜利，世界将说内塔尼亚胡失败了。”。“内塔尼亚胡有政治考虑，因为他很快就要参加第五次以色列选举，他需要表明他取得了一些成就。到目前为止，他没有。”

“以色列总理要结束这场战争，内塔尼亚胡需要一项成就。这与这场战争会持续多久无关，”他补充道。“目前，他通过谈论停火来从拜登政府那里争取时间，但继续他对加沙的攻击。”

白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基星期四在一次简报会上说，拜登政府认为，以色列在过去一周半的时间里取得了成就。

“我们的观点是，我们认为以色列已经实现了他们制定的重要军事目标，以保护他们的人民，应对来自哈马斯的数千枚火箭袭击，”普萨基说。“这也是为什么，在某种程度上，我们觉得他们可以开始缩减业务。”

然而，拉马拉的政治专家萨米尔·塞贝哈特也不相信。

塞贝哈特周四告诉美国广播公司新闻，“哈马斯不愿意不付出任何代价就停止正在西岸、耶路撒冷和以色列境内巴勒斯坦人之间发生的动乱”。“他们感到他们正在获得(势头)，并在以色列和巴勒斯坦制定议程。

通过Shutterstock的图像

2021年5月20日，火箭从加沙城向以色列发射。

哈马斯在2006年巴勒斯坦立法选举中获得多数席位，并在与巴勒斯坦敌对势力作战后于2007年控制了加沙地带。哈马斯表示，它对以色列的火箭袭击是对巴勒斯坦抗议者和以色列警方最近在耶路撒冷老城阿克萨清真寺大院外发生冲突的回应。阿克萨清真寺是伊斯兰教最神圣的场所之一，人们对可能驱逐数十名巴勒斯坦人越来越感到愤怒。

在1948年伴随以色列建国的一场战争中，成千上万的巴勒斯坦人逃离或流离失所。一些巴勒斯坦难民在20世纪50年代被约旦政府安置在东耶路撒冷老城区外的谢赫贾拉社区，当时以色列在1967年的战争中从约旦手中夺取了这座城市，以及加沙地带和西岸。现在，几个巴勒斯坦家庭面临着被驱逐出家园的可能，犹太定居者声称他们在1948年战争中被阿拉伯人夺走了土地。以色列法律允许公民收回这些土地，但不允许巴勒斯坦人这样做。

最近几周，老城区内外发生了针对这场持续数十年的法律斗争的大规模抗议活动。本月早些时候，以色列警察向在阿克萨清真寺外投掷石块和椅子的巴勒斯坦示威者发射催泪弹和眩晕手榴弹，导致数百人受伤。然后在5月9日，在司法部长要求更多时间进行审查后，以色列最高法院决定将驱逐案的裁决推迟30天。

哈马斯和伊斯兰圣战组织，一个较小的巴勒斯坦激进组织，开始开火5月10日晚，一系列火箭弹袭击了以色列领土。对此，以色列国防军解开...的皮带空袭的目标是哈马斯和加沙地带的其他恐怖目标。加沙地带面积140平方英里，自哈马斯掌权以来，200万巴勒斯坦人一直生活在邻国以色列和埃及的封锁之下。

以色列国防军说，自5月10日以来，哈马斯和伊斯兰圣战组织从加沙地带向以色列南部和中部发射了4 070多枚火箭，其中大约610枚在巴勒斯坦领土内哑火爆炸。火箭弹瞄准了包括耶路撒冷和特拉维夫在内的多个以色列城市，其中一些击中了多所房屋以及一所学校、一所医院和一辆公共汽车。据以色列国防军称，被称为铁穹的以色列防空系统拦截了约90%的火箭袭击。

萨马尔·阿布·埃卢夫/纽约时报

2021年5月15日，加沙地带，巴勒斯坦人抬着在以色列空袭中丧生的儿童尸体。

与此同时，巴勒斯坦卫生部表示，自上周以来，以色列军队对加沙地带进行了1450多次空袭。卫生部表示，这些袭击针对的是“人口稠密的住宅区”，摧毁了1000多栋房屋和公寓以及数十栋政府大楼、学校、医院和企业。卫生部表示，到目前为止，已经有大约5万个家庭流离失所，并警告说过度拥挤的避难所将成为“新冠肺炎快速蔓延的危险环境”

与以色列不同，加沙地带没有防空警报或防空洞。以色列国防军表示，它警告人们在攻击平民区的目标之前撤离。

然而，人权监督机构大赦国际表示，它已经记录了以色列军队在没有事先警告的情况下对房屋发动的四次致命袭击，并呼吁国际刑事法院紧急调查。总部设在伦敦的组织表示，这些袭击“可能构成战争罪或反人类罪”

大赦国际负责中东和北非事务的副主任萨利赫·希贾齐(Saleh Hijazi)周一在一份声明中表示:“尽管以色列军方没有解释在这些袭击中它的军事目标是什么，但很难想象在没有警告的情况下轰炸充满平民家庭的住宅建筑会被视为符合国际人道主义法。”“以色列在没有任何警告的情况下对家庭住宅实施这些无耻的致命袭击，显示了对巴勒斯坦平民生命的无情漠视，自2007年以色列非法封锁加沙以来，他们已经在遭受集体惩罚。”

以色列国防军表示，其空袭击中了加沙地带数百个恐怖目标，包括平民区的火箭发射场、边境沿线的攻击隧道、武器储存设施、几所据称属于哈马斯官员的房屋以及加沙市的一些高层建筑，以色列官员称这些建筑被哈马斯军事部门使用。其中一个目标是美联社、半岛电视台和其他媒体机构的办公楼。

今天通过北极星获得的Daibes/APAImages

2021年5月18日，约旦河西岸城市杰宁，巴勒斯坦抗议者与以色列士兵发生冲突。

在双方继续进行空袭和火箭交易的同时，以色列、加沙地带和西岸——一个与以色列和约旦接壤的内陆领土——的巴勒斯坦人一直在抗议以色列正在进行的军事进攻，针对阿拉伯裔以色列人的暴力以及迫在眉睫的驱逐东耶路撒冷的巴勒斯坦家庭。据巴勒斯坦卫生部称，巴勒斯坦抗议者和以色列警察之间的冲突在约旦河西岸造成死亡，共有28名巴勒斯坦人死亡，1400多人受伤。

伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队精英圣城部队指挥官伊斯梅尔·卡尼准将周四致函哈马斯军事领导人，对巴勒斯坦人的“抵抗和韧性”大加赞扬，并誓言伊朗支持他们。卡尼说，他的国家将坚持他的前任卡西姆·索莱曼尼做出的承诺被杀了在当时的总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)于2020年1月批准的美国空袭中，“无论压力和包围如何加剧，我们都不会独自离开巴勒斯坦。”

卡尼在信中说:“敌人很清楚，巴勒斯坦现在不是孤立的，它有一个日益壮大的抵抗轴心的支持。”。"除非那些篡位者和压迫者被罢黜，否则我们绝不会退缩."

美国向中东派遣了一个代表团，与双方领导人会面，因为担心以色列军方会发动一场大规模的军事行动陆地入侵加沙地带。

以色列和以色列最亲密的盟友美国都认为哈马斯是恐怖组织。这个伊斯兰激进组织的目标是建立一个独立的巴勒斯坦国，包括当今以色列的部分地区。

巴勒斯坦人希望将加沙地带和西岸纳入他们未来的国家，东耶路撒冷成为他们最终的首都。美国政府表示支持以色列-巴勒斯坦冲突的两国解决方案，这将建立一个独立的以色列和巴勒斯坦。然而，特朗普在2017年承认耶路撒冷为以色列首都，并在2018年将美国大使馆从特拉维夫迁至那里，这一有争议的举动受到以色列人的欢迎和巴勒斯坦人的谴责。

Israeli cabinet approves cease-fire with Hamas amid 2nd week of violence

LONDON and JERUSALEM --Israel’s security cabinet has approved acease-firewith Hamas, the prime minister's office announced Thursday.

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a statement Thursday evening stating that the Political Security Cabinet accepted a recommendation for a "bilateral cease-fire without any conditions."

"The chief of staff, the military echelon and the head of the Shin Bet reviewed with the ministers Israel's great achievements in the campaign, some of which were unprecedented," the statement read. "The political echelon emphasizes that the reality on the ground will determine the continuation of the campaign."

Hamas, the Palestinian militant group ruling the Gaza Strip, also has agreed to a cease-fire.

Taher Al-Nono, the media adviser to the head of the Hamas political bureau, said in a statement Thursday evening that an "agreement had been reached for a mutual and simultaneous ceasefire in the Gaza Strip."

The cease-fire will begin at 2 a.m. local time, which is 7 p.m. ET. Egypt will send two security delegations to Tel Aviv and the Palestinian territories, Egypt's state news agency MENA said.

There have beenmounting callsaround the world for both sides to agree to an immediate cease-fire after 11 straight days of fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip toward Israel stopped from 1 a .m. to 9 a.m. local time on Thursday, the longest pause since the violence erupted last week. Israel, however, continued its airstrikes on the Gaza Strip unabatedly, saying it wanted to deter Hamas from future attacks.

Since last week, at least 232 people -- including 65 children and 39 women -- have been killed by the Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. About 1,900 others have been wounded.

Meanwhile, at least 10 people -- including a soldier and a 6-year-old child -- were killed by the rocket attacks in Israel, and three others died from critical injuries they suffered on their way to bomb shelters. Another 348 have been injured, according to Magen David Adom, Israel's national emergency service.

In a telephone call Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden told Netanyahu that he "expected a significant de-escalation today on the path to a cease-fire," according to the White House. But Netanyahu resisted, saying just hours later that he appreciated "the support of the American president" but that his country would push ahead "to restore calm and security" to its citizens.

"I am determined to continue this operation until its aim is met," Netanyahu told reporters Wednesday after visiting the Israeli military headquarters.

After the cease-fire was announced, Biden said in remarks Thursday evening that he spoke to Netanyahu and "commended him for the decision to bring the current hostilities to a close within less than 11 days."

"I believe the Palestinians and Israelis equally deserve to live safely and securely, and to enjoy equal measures of freedom, prosperity and democracy," the president said. "My administration will continue our quiet and relentless diplomacy toward that end."

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz also spoke with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin on Thursday evening to thank the United States for its "support for Israel’s actions to protects its civilians" and to express "hope that the ceasefire will be honored," Israel said. According to a statement, Gantz told Austin "the Israeli defense establishment will continue to work closely and in full coordination with the Pentagon and the American administration to deepen regional stability."

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said onTwitterlate Thursday that he would be traveling to the region in the coming days and looks forward to meeting the foreign minister and other Israeli, Palestinian and regional leaders.

Dr. Basem Naim, a former Palestinian health minister who is now head of Hamas' international relations council, had previously told ABC News on Tuesday evening that Hamas would accept a mutual cease-fire agreement with the Israeli military on two conditions.

"One, Israeli forces must stop incursions into the Al-Asqa compound and respect the site," Naim said. "Two, Israel must stop the forced evacuation of the Palestinian residents in the Sheikh Jarah neighborhood. This condition is in accordance with international law, not only a condition expected by the Hamas authority."

But Israel was not interested, according to an Israeli official with direct knowledge of the matter.

"We say to stop prematurely is to give Hamas the victory it wants," the Israeli official told ABC News on Tuesday evening. "Hamas has to come out of this defeated."

Prior to official confirmation of the truce, there were reports in the Israeli media of an imminent cease-fire but some analysts in the region were skeptical that either side would be willing to lay down their arms. Ghassan Khatib, a former Palestinian cabinet minister who now teaches political science at Birzeit University near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, said it was unlikely because the Israeli prime minister is seeking re-election.

"Within the balances that exist now between Hamas and Israel over the battle, if Netanyahu stops now, Gaza will claim the victory, and the world will say Netanyahu lost," Khatib told ABC News on Thursday. "Netanyahu has political considerations because he is going to the fifth Israeli election soon, and he needs to make it clear he achieved something. So far he did not."

"For an Israeli prime minister to end this war, Netanyahu needs an achievement. It's not related to how long this war will last," he added. "For now, he is buying time from the Biden administration by talking about cease-fire but continuing his assault on Gaza."

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a briefing Thursday that the Biden administration believes Israel has seen achievements over the past week and a half.

"Our view is we believe the Israelis have achieved significant military objectives that they laid out to achieve in relation to protecting their people and to responding to the thousands of rocket attacks from Hamas," Psaki said. "And so that's why, in part, that we feel they're in a position to start winding their operation down."

However, Samir Sebehat, a Ramallah-based political expert, was also unconvinced.

"Hamas is not willing to stop the upheaval that is taking place in the West Bank, Jerusalem and among Palestinians inside Israel without any price," Sebehat told ABC News on Thursday. "They feel they are gaining [momentum] and setting the agenda in Israel and Palestine.

Hamas, which gained a majority in the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections and took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 after battling rival Palestinian forces, has said that its rocket attacks on Israel were in response to the the recent clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police in Jerusalem's Old City outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, one of the holiest sites in Islam, amid growing anger over the potential eviction of dozens of Palestinians.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were displaced from their homes during a war that accompanied Israel's creation in 1948. Some Palestinian refugees were rehoused in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of east Jerusalem, just outside the Old City, by the Jordanian government in the 1950s -- before Israel captured the city from Jordan during the 1967 war, along with the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Now, several Palestinian families are facing possible eviction from homes on land that Jewish settlers claim they lost to Arabs during the 1948 war. Israeli law allows citizens to take back such land, but it does not allow Palestinians to do the same.

Mass protests against the decades-old legal battle have taken place in and around the Old City in recent weeks. Hundreds of people were injured earlier this month after Israeli police fired tear gas and stun grenades at Palestinian demonstrators who hurled rocks and chairs outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Then on May 9, the Israeli Supreme Court decided to delay a ruling on the eviction case by up to 30 days after the attorney general requested more time to review.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad, a smaller Palestinian militant group,began firinga barrage of rockets toward Israeli territory on the night of May 10. In response, the IDFunleashedairstrikes aimed at what it said were Hamas and other terror targets in the Gaza Strip, a 140-square-mile territory where 2 million Palestinians have lived under a blockade imposed by neighboring Israel and Egypt since Hamas seized power.

The IDF said that Hamas and Islamic Jihad have fired more than 4,070 rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern and central Israel since May 10, of which approximately 610 misfired and exploded inside the Palestinian territory. The rockets were aimed at various Israeli cities, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, with some striking multiple homes as well as a school, a hospital and a bus. Israel's air defense system, known as the Iron Dome, has intercepted about 90% of the rocket attacks, according to the IDF.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military has conducted over 1,450 airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since last week, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, which said the attacks are targeting "densely populated residential areas" and have destroyed more than 1,000 houses and apartments as well as dozens of government buildings, schools, hospitals and businesses. Some 50,000 families have been displaced so far, the health ministry said, warning of overcrowded shelters becoming "a dangerous environment for the rapid spread of COVID-19."

Unlike Israel, the Gaza Strip has no air raid sirens or bomb shelters. The IDF has said it warns people to evacuate before striking targets in civilian areas.

However, human rights watchdog Amnesty International said it has documented four deadly attacks by the Israeli military launched on homes without prior warning and is calling for the International Criminal Court to urgently investigate. The London-based organization said the attacks "may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity."

"Although the Israeli military has given no explanation of what military objectives it was targeting in these attacks, it is hard to imagine how bombing residential buildings full of civilian families without warning could be considered proportionate under international humanitarian law," Saleh Hijazi, Amnesty International's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement Monday. "By carrying out these brazen deadly attacks on family homes without warning, Israel has demonstrated a callous disregard for lives of Palestinian civilians who are already suffering the collective punishment of Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza since 2007."

The IDF said its airstrikes have hit hundreds of terror targets in the Gaza Strip, including rocket launch sites in civilian areas, attack tunnels along the border, weapons storage facilities, several homes purportedly belonging to Hamas officials and a number of high-rise buildings in Gaza City that Israeli officials alleged were used by Hamas' military wing. Among the targets was a building that housed offices of the Associated Press, Al-Jazeera and other media outlets.

While both sides continued trading airstrikes and rockets, Palestinians across Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank -- a landlocked territory bordered by Israel and Jordan -- have been protesting against the ongoing Israeli military offensive,violence against Arab Israelisand the looming eviction of Palestinian families in east Jerusalem. Clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police have turned deadly in the West Bank, with a total of 28 Palestinians killed and more than 1,400 injured, according the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Brig. Gen. Ismail Qaani, commander of the elite Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, sent a letter to Hamas' military chief on Thursday lavishing praise on the "resistance and resilience" of Palestinians and vowing Iranian support for them. Qaani said his country would stick to a promise made by his predecessor, Qassem Soleimani --whowas killedin a U.S. airstrike approved by then-President Donald Trump in January 2020 -- that "we will never leave Palestine on its own no matter how the pressure and siege intensify."

"The enemy knows well that Palestine is now not alone and that it has the backing of a growing resistance axis," Qaani said in the letter. "We will never back off unless those usurpers and oppressors are demised."

The United States deployed a delegation to the Middle East to meet with leaders from both sides amid fears that the Israeli military would launch aground invasionof the Gaza Strip.

Israel and the United States, Israel's closest ally, both consider Hamas a terrorist organization. The Islamic militant group aims to establish an independent Palestinian state that includes parts of modern-day Israel.

Palestinians want to include the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in their future state, with east Jerusalem as their eventual capital. The U.S. government has voiced support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which would create an independent Israel and Palestine. However, Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital in 2017 and relocated the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv in 2018, a controversial move that was welcomed by Israelis and condemned by Palestinians.