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Curtain goes up on 2024 Tribeca Festival, with tribute to Robert De Niro
The Tribeca Festival returns to screens and event venues across New York City on Wednesday, showcasing 114 feature-length narrative and documentary films — many of them world or New York premieres — along with shorts, revivals and restorations, filmmaker Q&As, audio storytelling, and music performances.
This year marks the 23rd edition of the festival, which was launched in 2002 by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff to help revitalize a city wounded by 9/11. Since then it has grown into a major event for film lovers and media figures that also encompasses non-cinematic art forms: podcasts, demos of role-playing games, immersive art, and virtual reality/augmented reality exhibitions. This year’s film slate was selected from more than 13,000 submissions, more than ever before.
Tribeca was conceptualized as a storytelling festival, said festival director and VP of programming Cara Cusumano, “and that’s been kind of our guiding light and the root of where all these other programs evolved from. Where is the most interesting storytelling happening? How are audiences today consuming stories? Increasingly it’s not always a 90-minute feature film experience.”
Cusumano said that each of the festival’s verticals has cinematic storytelling in their DNA: “They feel like logical evolutions, but the scale is smaller. There’s probably 10 to 12 TV events, a similar number of immersive presentations, podcasts, games. So, we think of it kind of like the spokes on a wheel where we want to be sure that we’re representing these communities of creators, and communities of audiences, within the festival, while preserving the real core DNA of the film festival.
“We want to create a creative ecosystem where all these folks are not siloed in their own industry,” Cusumano said. “The walls are permeable and they can meet each other, they can meet the industry at large, and cross-pollinate in a way that we hope is creatively productive for everybody. The hope is to introduce people from games, podcasts, immersive, etc., to a more traditional film industry, and see where those points of connection might lie or be found, unexpectedly or not.
“And for audiences, too. Maybe what any single ticket buyer is drawn to is usually something that they’re familiar with or in their wheelhouse, but maybe because there’s all this other stuff going on, they get drawn into a different world and can discover something that they didn’t set out to find. That’s really hopefully the experience of discovery that Tribeca can offer that is unique.”
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But just as the festival has grown in scope over the years, it’s also contracting. After expanding its offerings throughout the city and, later, with virtual screenings once COVID postponed the 2020 festival (allowing film fans from across the country to attend), it’s now ended the Tribeca at Home program, to focus on communal, in-person screenings. And while film venues are primarily in Manhattan, special events are still being held in the outer boroughs, including a late-night dance party honoring the 70th anniversary of Godzilla at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn (June 7).
One of the major components of Tribeca 2024 is De Niro Con, marking the actor’s 80th birthday. “De Niro Is an Icon” weaves together an exhibit and an immersive film installation projected on six screens, celebrating more than 40 iconic De Niro film characters (June 6-16 at Spring Studios). Classic De Niro performances will also be screened on June 14, including “The Godfather Part II,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown” (in 35mm), “Analyze This,” and “Silver Linings Playbook,” with Q&As following most films.
There will also be the world premiere of Chazz Palminteri’s new film based on his one-man stage show, “A Bronx Tale,” a play that De Niro adapted as his directorial film debut back in 1993.
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Documentary films
On Wednesday, the festival’s opening night feature is the Hulu documentary “Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge,” a profile of the iconic designer, who was both a princess and a queen of fashion (June 5, 6, 15). [To watch a trailer click on the video player below.]
Nonfiction films at the festival will explore current events, including the Russia-Ukraine war, through particularly novel or unfamiliar ways. “Checkpoint Zoo” tells the story of zoo workers in eastern Ukraine trying to rescue animals at an ecological park coming under fire from advancing Russian forces (June 6, 9, 13), while “Soldiers of Song” examines the resilience of Ukrainian musicians trying to cope with the invasion (June 13).
“Antidote” follows journalists and whistleblowers who find themselves targeted as they speak out against the silencing of anti-Putin voices inside and outside of Russia (June 7, 8, 9). In “State of Silence,” journalists in Mexico are endangered by their reporting on corruption and narco-terrorism (June 10, 11, 12).
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In “Following Harry,” singer and social justice advocate Harry Belafonte (who died last year at age 96) mentors a new generation of activist and protest organizers (June 14, 15, 16). “Rebel Nun” profiles Sister Helen Prejean, whose efforts to combat capital punishment, as recounted in her book “Dead Man Walking,” have also led to the exoneration of innocent men housed on Death Row (June 6, 7, 9).
In “Witches,” Elizabeth Sankey weaves a personal essay about post-partum depression and the mental health of new mothers, and how it factors into the cultural depiction of witches and witchcraft through the ages, particularly in films (June 9, 10, 15). “Driver” examines the lives of female long-haul truck drivers (June 7, 8, 15). A gathering of comedians (including Tig Notero, Mike Birbiglia, Atsuko Okatsuka and Gary Gulman) sits down with Neil Patrick Harris to talk mental health in “Group Therapy” (June 6, 7, 13).
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“Made in Ethiopia” looks at 21st century colonialism as Chinese investors try to sell an industrial park in Africa, affecting not only the lives of displaced farmers and young factory employees but also the Chinese expats who see themselves at Africa’s future (June 6, 9, 14). The rise of artificial intelligence is explored in “The Thinking Game” (June 7, 8, 14).
Martin Scorsese offers a personal account of the impact on his life and art made by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell, from “The Red Shoes” and “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” to “Peeping Tom” (“Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger,” June 11, 12, 14).
There are also profiles of notable celebrities, past and present, in the worlds of music, art and sports, from tennis legend Roger Federer (“Federer: Twelve Final Days,” June 10, 14, 16) to Bruce Springsteen sideman Stevie Van Zandt (“Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple,” June 8, 10, 15), to Liza Minnelli (“Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story,” June 12, 13, 15), Elizabeth Taylor (“Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes,” June 11, 12, 16), “Hamilton” actress Renée Elise Goldsberry (“Satisfied,” June 15, 16), Luther Vandross (“Luther: Never Too Much,” June 13, 14, 15); Claude Nobs, founder of one of the world’s leading jazz festivals (“They All Came Out to Montreaux,” June 7, 8, 12), and Swedish EDM artist Avicii (“Avicii – I’m Tim,” June 9, 11, 14). Singer-songwriters Linda Perry (“Linda Perry: Let It Die Here,” June 6, 8, 9), and Ani DiFranco (“1-800-ON-HER-OWN,” June 10, 11, 13) will each perform following the premiere screenings of films about their careers.
And if you’re hungry after all that, “Shelf Life” takes a deep dive into the world of cheese (June 7, 8, 9).
Narrative films
Among the notable premieres of fiction films are the comedy “Adult Best Friends,” starring director and co-writer Delaney Buffett (daughter of singer Jimmy Buffett), in which a young woman (Katie Corwin) has to break the news to her codependent best friend (Buffett) that she is engaged to a man her friend majorly dislikes (June 8, 10, 12, 16); and “Treasure,” starring Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham as a Jewish émigré-father and his daughter revisiting Poland and the landmarks of his youth during World War II (June 8, 9, 11).
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“Bad Shabbos” stars Jon Bass, Meghan Leathers, Kyra Sedgwick, David Paymer and Milana Vayntrub in a comedy about an observant Jewish Upper West Side family whose dinner is spoiled by the presence of a dead body (June 10, 11, 13, 15); and “The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer” pits John Magaro (“Past Lives”) against Steve Buscemi (“Fargo”) in a very dark comedy about a retired serial killer who offers to teach a struggling novelist the art of murder, and winds up serving as the writer’s marriage counselor (June 8, 9, 12, 14).
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Other notable entries include “The Damned,” a period drama from Iceland, in which the fate of shipwrecked sailors places an entire community in peril (June 6, 7, 12). In “The Freshly Cut Grass,” Marina de Tavira (an Oscar-nominee for “Roma”) and Joaquín Furriel play college professors whose moribund marriages lead each into affairs with students (June 8, 13, 14).
Jude Law stars as King Henry VIII at odds with his sixth wife, Katherine Parr (Alicia Vikander), in “Firebrand” (June 11, 12). Elizabeth Banks is a surgeon shielding a colleague from the fallout over a medical procedural error in “A Mistake” (June 7, 8, 10). “The Wasp” is a psychological thriller starring Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer (June 8, 9, 12). Lily Gladstone (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) is featured in “Jazzy,” a tale of growing up on the Oglala Lakota reservation in South Dakota (June 9, 10, 12). “Daddio” stars Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn sharing a late-night cab ride through New York City (June 10, 12, 16).
Jenna Ortega and Percy Hynes White star in a youthful romance, “Winter Spring Summer or Fall” (June 6, 7, 15), while Tim Blake Nelson plays a former boxer who trains his grandson in the ring in “Bang Bang” (June 11, 14, 15). Rooney Mara and Raúl Briones star in a tale of immigrant restaurant workers in NYC in “La Cocina” (June 9, 12, 13). Chinese writer-director Qiu Yang’s “Some Rain Must Fall,” winner of the special Jury Prize at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, evokes the cracks that form in a family following an accident, and of a housewife whose life spirals out of control (June 6, 9, 15).
Britt Lower, very good as the suspecting wife in “The Shallow Tale…,” stars in “Darkest Miriam” as a Toronto librarian who begins a romantic relationship with a younger, foreign-born taxi driver (June 9, 11, 14). “McVeigh” examines the evolution of Timothy McVeigh into a domestic terrorist (June 7, 8, 11). In “Come Closer,” a woman grieving over her brother’s death meets his secret girlfriend (June 6, 8).
What can go wrong at a cannabis-fueled 40th birthday party? How about word of an impeding nuclear attack? “Nuked” is a comedy (June 13, 16), as are “Griffin in Summer,” which follows a budding 14-year-old playwright (Everett Blunck) who finds a kindred spirit in a failed performance artist (June 6, 7, 13); “Rent Free,” in which Jacob Roberts and David Treviño are best buds who try to wrangle a year of rent-free living by couch-surfing at friends’ homes (June 7, 8, 13, 16); and “Between the Temples,” starring Jason Schwartzman, Carol Kane, Robert Smigel and Dolly De Leon, about a young cantor, recently widowed, dipping his toes back into the dating world (June 13, 14, 15). Michael Cera, Maya Erskine and Kristen Stewart also star in the road trip “Sacramento” (June 8, 10, 12).
Tribeca hosts the New York premiere of this year’s Sundance audience award-winner “Kneecap,” the cheeky, too-good-to-be-true-but-it-(kinda-sorta)-is origin story of the Irish rap group Kneecap, who will perform following the film’s first screening (June 9).
For Father’s Day, Tribeca will screen the animated “Despicable Me 4” (June 16), while a coda to the festival will be the June 26 world premiere of “A Quiet Place: Day One.”
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Genre films, from horror and thrillers to violent splatterfests, get their own sidebars. Among the offerings: The slasher flick “#AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead,” which tells the story of what happens when a party at an Airbnb turns crimson red (June 8, 10, 11); “The Weekend,” a horror film from Nigeria about disquieting in-laws (June 9, 11, 15); and “Kill,” an Indian thriller in which a passenger train becomes a battlefield between a pair of commandoes and an army of bandits (June 13, 14, 15).
But the most anticipated entry, for fans of the sketch comedy series “The Whitest Kids U’ Know,” may be “Mars,” an animated lark set on the Red Planet. It’s especially gratifying, three years after the death of “WKUK” co-founder Trevor Moore, that he and Zach Cregger, Sam Brown, Darren Trumeter and Timmy Williams get one more go together (June 6, 7, 15, 16).
Retrospectives and reunions
There are retrospective screenings of “Mean Streets,” starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro, followed by a discussion with De Niro and director Martin Scorsese (June 15); Steven Spielberg’s “The Sugarland Express,” starring Goldie Hawn, followed by a conversation with the director (June 15); the 1984 musical “Footloose,” followed by a conversation with star Kevin Bacon (June 14); “Beat Street,” about Bronx teenagers in the early years of hip hop (June 14); and Tod Browning’s 1927 silent “The Unknown.”
Alfred Hitchcock’s masterful thriller “North by Northwest,” starring Cary Grant as a Madison Avenue ad exec mistaken for a spy, has been restored by way of a 13K scan of the original VistaVision camera negative, and will be screened in 70mm 5.1 stereo (June 12).
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In “Brats,” Andrew McCarthy examines how he and other young actors in the 1980s who were collectively labeled the “Brat Park” survived (June 7, 8, 10; the premiere screening features a panel of reunited Brat Packers).
In 2003 Daft Punk and Leiji Matsumoto produced an hour-long film, “Interstella 555: The Story of the Secret Star System,” about alien musicians. At the time the film was cut into short music videos; the full-length feature, remastered in 4K, is getting its North American premiere (June 14).
On June 13 a screening of Alex Gibney’s “Sopranos 25th Anniversary Reunion: Wise Guy David Chase and the Sopranos,” about the man behind television’s greatest mob series, will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Chase and “Sopranos” cast members.
TV
Episodic and limited series, as well as TV documentaries and docudramas, will also be highlighted. Among the offerings: the ESPN film “In the Arena: Serena Williams,” about her life on and off the court (June 13); the HBO docuseries “Breath of Fire,” about Guru Jagat, a millennial who became the face of a spiritual empire (June 12); the Hulu series “Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer” (June 7); “Presumed Innocent,” an Apple TV limited series adapted from Scott Turow’s legal thriller, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ruth Negga, Renate Reinsve and Peter Sarsgaard (June 9); and “The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth,” National Geographic’s look back at the infamous psychological experiment (June 14, 16).
Conversations
Talks featuring notable creatives include Judd Apatow (June 15), Bravo’s Andy Cohen (June 12), R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe (June 12), “Succession” star Kieran Culkin (June 13), Jon Batiste, celebrating the music of Nat King Cole (June 11), Kerry Washington & Nicole Avant (June 8), Laverne Cox (June 12), cookbook author and YouTuber Alison Roman (June 14), and director Gus Van Sant.
Tribeca X mixes panels with networking to present industry and business leaders, entrepreneurs and celebrities, while the Creators Market allows storytellers to pitch their feature, episodic and audio projects.
Festival Guide
The festival runs from June 5-16, For more information about films, immersive exhibits, special events and ticketing, visit the Tribeca Festival website.
Alfred Handley leaned back in his wheelchair alongside a major Phoenix freeway as a street medicine team helped him get rehydrated with an intravenous saline solution dripping from a bag hanging on a pole.
Cars whooshed by under the blazing 96-degree morning sun as the 59-year-old homeless man with a nearly toothless smile got the help he needed through a new program run by the nonprofit Circle the City.
“It’s a lot better than going to the hospital,” Handley said of the team that provides health care to homeless people. He’s been treated poorly at traditional clinics and hospitals, he said, more than six years after being struck by a car while he sat on a wall, leaving him in a wheelchair.
Circle the City, a non-profit that works in multiple cities and hospitals and treats about 9,000 people annually, introduced its IV rehydration program as a way to protect homeless people in Phoenix from life-threatening heat illness as temperatures regularly hit the triple-digits in America’s hottest metro.
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Homeless people accounted for nearly half of the record 645 heat-related deaths last year in Maricopa County, which encompasses metro Phoenix. As summers grow warmer, health providers from San Diego to New York are being challenged to better protect homeless patients.
Dr. Liz Frye, vice chair of the Street Medicine Institute which provides training to hundreds of healthcare teams worldwide, said she didn’t know of groups other than Circle the City administering IVs on the street. The organization also distributes tens of thousands of water bottles each summer and tries to educate people about hot weather dangers.
“But if that’s what needs to happen to keep somebody from dying, I’m all about it,” Frye said.
Bringing care to people in need
The amount of people requiring treatment for heat illnesses is rising. The Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, featured in last year’s book, “Rough Sleepers,” now sees patients with mild heat exhaustion in the summer after decades of treating people with frostbite and hypothermia during the winter, said Dr. Dave Munson, the street team’s medical director.
“It’s certainly something to worry about,” said Munson, noting that temperatures in Boston hit 100 degrees with 70% humidity during June’s heat wave. Homeless people, he said, are vulnerable to very hot and very cold weather not only because they live outside, but they often can’t regulate body temperature due to medication for mental illness or high blood pressure, or because of street substance use.
The Phoenix team searches for patients in homeless encampments in dry riverbeds, sweltering alleys and along the canals that bring water to the Phoenix area. About 15% are dehydrated enough for a saline drip.
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“We go out every day and find them,” said nurse practitioner Perla Puebla. “We do their wound care, medication refills for diabetes, antibiotics, high blood pressure.”
Puebla’s street team ran across Handley and 36-year-old Phoenix native Phillip Enriquez near an overpass in an area frequented by homeless people because it’s near a facility offering free meals. Across the road was an encampment of tents and lean-tos along a chain-link fence.
Enriquez sat on a patch of dirt as Puebla started a drip for him. She also gave him a prescription for antibiotics and a referral to a dentist for his dental infection.
Living outside in Arizona’s broiling sun is hard, especially for people who may be mentally ill or use sedating drugs like fentanyl that make them less aware of their surroundings. Stimulants like methamphetamine contribute to dehydration, which can be fatal. Dr. Matt Essary, who works with Circle in the City’s mobile clinics, said the organization also often treats surface burns that can happen when a medical emergency or intoxication causes someone to fall on a sizzling sidewalk.
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Temperatures this year have reached 115 degrees in metro Phoenix, where six heat-related deaths have been confirmed through June 22. Another 111 are under investigation, and the city is seeing an “increasing” number of patients with heat illnesses every year, according to Dr. Aneesh Narang, the assistant medical director of emergency medicine at Banner Medical Center-Phoenix, which treats many homeless people with heat stroke.
Narang’s staff works frequently with Circle the City, whose core mission is providing respite care, with 100 beds for homeless people not well enough to return to the streets after a hospital stay.
Extreme heat worldwide requires a dramatic response, said physician assistant Lindsay Fox, who cares for homeless people in Albuquerque, New Mexico, through an initiative run by the University of New Mexico’s School of Medicine.
Three times weekly, Fox treats infections, cleans wounds and manages chronic conditions in consultation with hospital colleagues. She said the prospect of more heat illness worries her.
Highs in Albuquerque can hit the 90s and don’t fall enough for people living outside to cool off overnight, she said.
“If you’re in an urban area that’s primarily concrete, you’re retaining heat,” she said. “We’re seeing heat exposure that very quickly could go to heat stroke.”
Serious heat stroke is far more common in metro Phoenix, where Circle the City is now among scores of health programs for the homeless in cities like New York, San Diego and Spokane, Washington.
Circle the City works with medical staff in seven Phoenix hospitals to help homeless patients get after-care when they no longer need hospitalization. It also staffs two outpatient clinics for follow-up.
Rachel Belgrade waited outside Circle the City’s retrofitted truck with her black-and-white puppy, Bo, for Essary to write a prescription for the blood pressure medicine she lost when a man stole her bicycle. She accepted two bottles of water to cool off as the morning heat rose.
“They make all of this easier,” said Belgrade, a Native American from the Gila River tribe. “They don’t give you a hard time.”
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Hamas appears to clear way for possible cease-fire deal with Israel after reportedly dropping key demand
There is new hope for a cease-fire deal in the Middle East after Hamas responded to a U.S.-backed proposal for a phased deal in Gaza.
The militant group – which controlled Gaza before triggering the war with an Oct. 7 attack on Israel – has reportedly given initial approval of the cease-fire deal after dropping a key demand that Israel give an up-front commitment for a complete end to the war, a Hamas and an Egyptian official told the Associated Press on Saturday.
A senior U.S. official says that Hamas’ response to the proposal “may provide the basis for closing the deal.”
The apparent compromise could deliver the first pause in fighting since November and set the stage for further talks on ending the devastating nine months of fighting. But all sides cautioned that a deal is still not guaranteed.
The two officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing negotiations, told the Associated Press that Washington’s phased deal would first include a “full and complete” six-week cease-fire that would see the release of a number of hostages, including women, older people and the wounded, in exchange for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. During the 42 days, Israeli forces would withdraw from densely populated areas of Gaza and allow the return of displaced people to their homes in northern Gaza, the officials said.
Over that period, Hamas, Israel and mediators would negotiate the terms of the second phase that could see the release of the remaining male hostages, both civilians and soldiers, the officials said. In return, Israel would free additional Palestinian prisoners and detainees. The third phase would see the return of any remaining hostages, including bodies of dead captives, and the start of a years-long reconstruction project.
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Hamas still wants “written guarantees” from mediators that Israel will continue to negotiate a permanent cease-fire deal once the first phase goes into effect, the officials said.
The Hamas representative told The Associated Press the group’s approval came after it received “verbal commitments and guarantees” from the mediators that the war won’t be resumed and that negotiations will continue until a permanent cease-fire is reached.
“Now we want these guarantees on paper,” he said.
In line with previous proposals, the deal would see around 600 trucks of humanitarian aid entering Gaza daily — including 50 fuel trucks — with half of them bound for the hard-hit northern of the enclave, the two officials said. Following Israel’s assault on the southernmost city of Rafah, aid supplies entering Gaza have been reduced to a trickle.
Israel launched the war in Gaza after Hamas’ October attack in which militants stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250. Israel says Hamas is still holding about 120 hostages — about a third of them now thought to be dead.
Since then, the Israeli air and ground offensive has killed more than 38,000 people in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count. The offensive has caused widespread devastation and a humanitarian crisis that has left hundreds of thousands of people on the brink of famine, according to international officials.
Months of on-again off-again cease-fire talks have stumbled over Hamas’ demand that any deal include a complete end to the war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to pause the fighting but not end it until Israel reaches its goals of destroying Hamas’ military and governing capabilities and returning all hostages held by the militant group.
Netanyahu’s office did not respond to requests for comment, and there was no immediate comment from Washington.
CBS News previously reported that an Israel delegation headed by Mossad Director David Barnea was traveling to Qatar for talks. Sources told CBS News that Barnea was set to meet with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani for discussions.
On Friday, the Israeli prime minister confirmed that the spy agency’s chief had paid a lightning visit to Qatar, a key mediator. But his office said “gaps between the parties” remained.
President Biden held a 30-minute call with Netanyahu on Thursday, a senior Biden administration official told reporters, during which the two leaders walked through the latest draft of the proposal.
U.S. officials have said the latest proposal has new language that was proposed to Egypt and Qatar on Saturday and addresses indirect negotiations that are set to commence during the first phase of the three-phase deal that Mr. Biden laid out in a May 31 speech.
Hamas has expressed concern Israel will restart the war after the hostages are released. Israeli officials have said they are worried Hamas will draw out the talks and the initial cease-fire indefinitely, without releasing all the hostages.
Netanyahu is under pressure from Israel’s closest ally – the United States – to negotiate a ceasefire, but at home, two far-right wing members of his cabinet have threatened to bring down the governing coalition if he agrees to a truce.
Israel bombardment continues
The Hamas-run Interior Ministry said four police officers were killed in an Israeli airstrike Saturday in Rafah, the AP reported. The ministry, which oversees civilian police, said the officers were killed during foot patrol securing properties. It said eight other police officers were wounded. Israel’s military did not immediately respond to questions.
In Deir al-Balah, prayers were held for 12 Palestinians, including five children and two women, killed in three separate strikes in central Gaza on Friday and Saturday, according to hospital officials. The bodies were taken to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where AP journalists counted them.
Two of those killed in a strike that hit the Mughazi refugee camp Friday were employees with the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, the organization’s director of communications told the AP. Juliette Touma said a total of 194 workers with the agency have been killed since October.
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Earlier this week, an Israeli evacuation order in the southern city of Khan Younis and the surrounding areas affected about 250,000 Palestinians. Many headed to an Israeli-declared “safe zone” centered on the Muwasi coastal area or Deir al-Balah.
Ground fighting has raged in Gaza City’s Shijaiyah neighborhood for the past two weeks, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. Many have sheltered in the Yarmouk Sports Stadium, one of the strip’s largest soccer arenas.
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