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Israeli troops will remain in the buffer zones they have created in Gaza even after any settlement to end the war, Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said yesterday, as efforts to revive a ceasefire agreement faltered.

Israel&s defence minister has said troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely. The remarks by Israel Katz could further complicate talks with Hamas over a ceasefire and hostage release.

An Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of the Kuwaiti Field Hospital in the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing a medic and wounding nine other ­people & all patients and staff & according to a spokesman for the hospital in the Muwasi area, where hundreds of thousands have sought shelter in sprawling tent camps.