{"id":21660,"date":"2023-04-24T16:34:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/israel-proposes-hosting-rivals\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T16:39:07","slug":"israel-proposes-hosting-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/israel-proposes-hosting-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel proposes hosting rivals for Sudan ceasefire talks after mediation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (Reuters) &#8211;     Israel on Monday proposed hosting rival Sudanese leaders for ceasefire talks after &#8220;very promising&#8221; progress in mediation efforts led by a senior Israeli official over the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Since fighting erupted in the country, Israel has been operating in various channels to reach a ceasefire, and the progress over the past few days in discussions with the sides is very promising,&#8221; Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The statement gave no further details other than saying the official had been holding discussions with the warring generals.<\/p>\n<p>Sudan and Israel announced in February they had finalised a deal normalising ties, with the signing due to follow a transfer of power from the military to a civilian government in Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen said he hoped that working to achieve calm in Sudan &#8220;would allow for the signing of a historic peace agreement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Henriette Chacar; Editing by Peter Graff and Alison Williams)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/israel-proposes-hosting-rivals\/drone-video-shows-smoke-rising-over-sudanese-city-near-khartoum-5\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0K6-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0K6-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (Reuters) &#8211; Israel on Monday proposed hosting rival Sudanese leaders for ceasefire talks after &#8220;very promising&#8221; progress in mediation efforts led by a senior Israeli official over the past few days. &#8220;Since fighting erupted in the country, Israel has been operating in various channels to reach a ceasefire, and the progress over the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3N0K6-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21662,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21660\/revisions\/21662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}