Updates: Hamas rejects Gaza ceasefire proposal disarmament demand

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• At least 15 people have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn.
• Hamas said it is “studying” the Israeli ceasefire proposal but reiterated that calls for the group to disarm are a “red line”.
• The US announced that the State Department approved the sale of engines used on military vehicles to Israel in a deal worth $180m.
• Israeli forces have deployed military vehicles in Tulkarem after launching a series of raids.
• Yemen’s Al Masirah TV reports that 15 US strikes have targeted the districts of Raghwan and Madghal in the Marib governorate.
• Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has told Al Jazeera that the army is ready to fulfil its duties and secure the southern border if Israel withdraws from southern Lebanon.

Margaret Harris, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO), has told Al Jazeera Arabic that the UN agency has been “working to bring in medical aid to treat those wounded in the ongoing bombing of Gaza”.

However, “we often do not receive permission to bring medical aid into the Gaza Strip”, she added.

Harris said the WHO was increasingly concerned about the population’s lack of access to clean water and the increasing levels of hunger, especially among children.

Israeli forces have attacked a tent housing displaced Palestinians in the northwest of al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, our correspondent on the ground reports.

At least one person was killed and others were injured in the attack.

Israel has attacked the al-Mawasi area several times despite issuing forced evacuation orders for residents to move to the area as a so-called “safe zone”.

Israel’s bombing of Gaza’s last functional hospitals has turned treatable conditions into death sentences.

Patients in Gaza are dying of treatable wounds and illnesses due to Israeli attacks and its aid blockade.

Israel bombed one of the last working hospitals in Gaza on Sunday, meaning more Palestinians with routine health conditions might now face death.

Targeting health facilities is a war crime, yet it has continually occurred in the war on Gaza.

So, what’s the impact of Israel’s attacks on patients and doctors?

Watch the latest episode of Inside Story, with Olga Cherevko, the spokesperson for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza, Dr Tanja Haj Hassan, a paediatric intensive care doctor who has worked in Gaza, and Dr Mads Gilbert, an emergency medicine doctor who has also worked in Gaza.

An Israeli air attack earlier hit the Khuza’a area in Khan Younis, killing five Palestinians. A video broadcast by Al Jazeera Arabic shows the extent of the destruction in Gaza’s southern city, where people are living in makeshift tents among the rubble.

“We don’t know where to go,” residents said. Israel now controls about 50 percent of the enclave, while 2.1 million people are squeezed into the remaining areas. No food, water, hygiene items or fuel has entered the Strip since early March.

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— الجزيرة فلسطين (@AJA_Palestine) April 14, 2025

Translation: “We don’t know where to go.” Israeli air strikes destroy and burn dozens of displaced people’s tents in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Harvard University has said it will not comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration that purport to crack down on anti-Semitism and civil rights violations, putting $9bn of federal grants and contracts on the line.

University president Alan Garber said in a letter that the institution would “not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights”.

The statement comes days after the Trump administration warned Harvard that it must comply with an updated and expanded list of demands if it intends to “maintain [its] financial relationship with the federal government”.

The institution was required to “‘audit’ the viewpoints of our student body, faculty, staff, and to ‘reduc[e] the power’ of certain students, faculty, and administrators targeted because of their ideological views”, Garber said.

“The administration’s prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government,” he continued. “No government – regardless of which party is in power – should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”

The Trump administration has sought to crack down on pro-Palestinian speech at US universities after widespread campus protests in opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza over the past 18 months.

Another Palestinian student at Columbia University has been arrested by US immigration services over involvement in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, The Intercept reports.

Mohsen K Mahdawi, a permanent resident who was applying for US citizenship, is facing removal, days after an immigration judge ruled that the deportation case against another Columbia University student, Mahmoud Khalil, could proceed.

“Mohsen Mahdawi was unlawfully detained today for no reason other than his Palestinian identity,” his lawyer, Luna Droubi, said in a statement to The Intercept. “He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech.”

The lawyer challenged the legality of Mahdawi’s detention, and alleged that the government was violating his statutory and due process rights by punishing him for speech related to Palestine and Israel.

The Trump administration is seeking to deport many students across the country, based on allegations of anti-Semitism and alignment with Hamas, without providing any evidence to back its claims.

“The fight for freedom of Palestine and the fight against anti-Semitism go hand-in-hand because injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” Mahdawi told CBS News in November 2023.

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More from Sami Abu Zuhri, who has confirmed what Al Jazeera had earlier heard from an unnamed Hamas senior official on the Palestinian group’s rejection of any attempt to force it to abandon its weapons.

“The request to disarm Hamas is not acceptable to even hear,” Abu Zuhri said. “This is not just a red line. It is a million red lines.

“Everyone should understand that this is a dream. Daydreaming. It cannot be achieved. The dreams of Netanyahu and his supporters cannot be achieved because Hamas is a movement defending its own people and because the Palestinians want to liberate their land.

“As long as there is an occupation, the resistance will continue and arms will stay in the hands of the resistance to defend our people and our rights.”

Egypt’s state-affiliated Al Qahera News earlier reported that Egypt had presented a new Israeli proposal for a Gaza ceasefire to Hamas.

With nowhere to go amid repeated Israeli displacement orders, Palestinian families are taking refuge in landfill sites.

“Our children are suffering from diarrhoea and malnutrition. There’s no aid,” one Palestinian mother says.

Watch our report below.

The Pentagon announces that the US State Department has approved the sale of engines used on military vehicles to Israel in a deal worth $180m.

“The United States is committed to the security of Israel, and it is vital to US national interests to assist Israel to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defense capability,” the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement.

“This proposed sale is consistent with those objectives.”

Israel receives billions of dollars in US weapons and military aid despite accusations by UN experts and rights groups that the Israeli military is carrying out a genocide in Gaza.

Last year, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu over alleged war crimes in Gaza, including using starvation as a weapon of war.

Egypt’s Al Qahera News TV reports that Cairo has received an Israeli proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the start of negotiations for a permanent ceasefire.

Al Qahera News TV added, quoting unnamed sources, that the proposal had been delivered to Hamas and Cairo, a key mediator in the ceasefire talks, was awaiting the Palestinian group’s response.

Earlier, Hamas told Al Jazeera Arabic that the group had rejected a ceasefire proposal conveyed by Egypt, which called for the group to disarm.