2024-08-15
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Today's Thursday, August 15.
Here's what we're covering today in Doha, the capital of Qatar, negotiators are meeting to discuss a potential ceasefire in Gaza, and many world leaders have put the pressure on President Joe Biden, as well as the leaders of Egypt and Qatar pushed for the meeting today, saying there was no more time to waste and no excuse for any delays from either Israel or Hamas.
Israel has sent negotiators, Hamas has not.
But throughout the war, the group has relied on Qatar in Egypt to relay its proposals.
Despite the pressure, there's little hope of a breakthrough today.
The two sides have been negotiating for months, and they're deadlocked on several issues as the talks get underway, the Times has learned us officials think Israel's military has reached the end of what it can accomplish on the battlefield.
American officials are warning that Israel is now in a whack a mole strategy.
Julian Barnes covers international intelligence for the Times.
They're going after small groups of Hamas fighters that pop up here and there, and each of those strikes has diminishing returns.
There are fewer fighters being killed, more civilians being killed, and this has the US worried.
Now, us officials believe that Hamas can be degraded, Hamas can be weakened, and it has been.
It is no longer able to mount a terror attack like it did on October 7.
But the US has learned through many years of counterterrorism that you cannot destroy a terror organization.