The four-day truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has been extended for another two days, amid commendations of the released hostages from both sides. According to BBC, Qatar disclosed this adding that Hamas said the extension was “under the same conditions”, which were for 50 Israeli hostages to be released in exchange for […]
The Israeli government said Monday it had put Hamas “on notice” that an “option for an extension” of the truce in the Gaza Strip was open. “We want to receive another additional 50 hostages beyond tonight on our way to bringing everyone home,” government spokesman Eylon Levy told reporters, announcing the move. The terms […]
Mourners carry the bodies of three of five Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin in an overnight Israeli incursion, during their funeral on November 26, 2023. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP) Israeli troops killed eight Palestinians over a 24-hour period in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry […]
Hamas fighters are set to release a new wave of hostages Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, officials said, offering hope to anguished families after seven weeks of war that have killed thousands of people. Key mediator Qatar was expected to announce the numbers of prisoners and hostages to be freed later Saturday, the […]
Israel was “committed to the return of all our abductees”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday after a first group of hostages seized in Hamas attacks were freed under a truce agreement. “This is one of the goals of the war, and we are committed to achieving all the goals of the war,” […]
Two Hamas sources told AFP that some of the hostages seized in the October 7 raids on Israel were on Friday handed over to the Red Cross for return to Israel, via Egypt. “Half an hour ago, the prisoners were handed to the Red Cross who will take them to the Egyptians” at the […]
As hostages are expected to be released today by Hamas following a truce, Israel has warned against returning to north Gaza. Israel dropped leaflets from planes saying the war not over. Meanwhile, children had pets in their arms, others with their belongings loaded onto donkey carts or car roofs, headed home on Friday. They […]
Israeli soldiers escorted journalists through a war-ravaged landscape to Gaza’s largest hospital Wednesday, to show them a tunnel shaft they said was part of a vast underground network Hamas uses for military purposes. For weeks Al-Shifa hospital in the northern Gaza Strip has been the focal point of the fight between Israel and the […]
Six Palestinians were shot dead in an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry said. More than 200 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers across the West Bank since the Hamas attacks on southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, according to […]
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said on Tuesday his militant movement was nearing a truce agreement with Israel, according to a statement sent by his office to AFP. “We are close to reaching a deal on a truce,” Haniyeh said, according to the statement. Negotiators have been working to seal a deal to allow […]
