"Let's go. A ceasefire is imminent." Will artillery stop after 14 months?The air raid continues.

[Anchor]
Foreign media reports say a cease-fire negotiation between Israel and Hamas will take place soon.

Despite expectations of a cease-fire, Israel has not slowed down its omnidirectional airstrikes on Gaza and is accused of destroying drinking water facilities.

I'm reporter Jeong Yu-shin on the report.

[Reporter]
Foreign media reported that negotiations for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, which are currently underway in Egypt, could take place as early as a few days.

The U.S. and Arab arbitrators are known to be aggressive in declaring a six-week ceasefire and discussing exchanging some prisoners and prisoners.

[Tony Blinken, Secretary of State]: I am hopeful. I will try to end the negotiations by using all the remaining time, all the days.]

In the meantime, U.S. President Joe Biden has been making all-out efforts to wrap up negotiations before leaving office, and Trump also pressured him to end the war before taking office.

Negotiations have accelerated recently as Hamas has been proactive in issues such as the presence of Israeli troops.

If the deal is reached, the Gaza war, which began with Hamas' surprise attack in October last year, will stop in 14 months.

Now Hamas is holding more than 100 hostages, and it is estimated that more than a third of them are already dead.

Even as a ceasefire was imminent, Israel did not slow down its offensive and continued bombing everywhere.

Gaza's health authorities claimed dozens of residents, including refugee camps, were killed in Israeli airstrikes the day before.

[Mahmud Abbas, Palestinian Authority President] Palestinians are seeing daily Israeli massacres, starvation and migration attempts. Call for an immediate end to shelling in Gaza and permission of aid.]

International human rights groups have accused Israel of genocide, saying it has deliberately destroyed drinking water and sanitation facilities essential to residents' survival.

Apart from Gaza, Israel has also immediately retaliated against a missile attack by Yemen's pro-Iranian rebel Houthis.

A total of nine people have been killed in heavy airstrikes targeting Houthi-run Red Sea ports and oil facilities, local media said.

This is YTN Jeong Yu-shin.