On the 143rd day of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, the Israeli army continued to commit massacres that left dozens of dead. While the Palestinian resistance is waging fierce battles with it in the north and south of the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, the people of the Gaza Strip continue to suffer with the continued lack of aid entering, as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced that the last time it was able to deliver food aid to the northern Gaza Strip was a month ago.

Politically, a leading source in the Hamas movement told Al Jazeera that the atmosphere of optimism about the nearness of reaching an agreement on the exchange deal does not reflect the truth, stressing that killing the Palestinian people by starvation in the northern Gaza Strip is a crime of genocide that threatens the entire course of the negotiations.

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed his intention to postpone the Rafah process if a prisoner exchange deal was reached, while Washington confirmed that the mediators had reached an understanding regarding the basic features of this deal.