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Israel prepares for hostages’ return

Israel is preparing for the return of the hostages from Gaza with the expectation that many are likely to have severe, life-threatening complications after more than a year in captivity in Gaza, reports AP. While its impossible to know the exact conditions in which hostages have been held, the...

Hamas set to release first hostages under Gaza ceasefire deal: Israel

The Palestinian group Hamas is expected to release the first hostages under a Gaza ceasefire deal on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office said on Friday, after 15 months of war that demolished the enclave. If successful, the ceasefire would halt fighting that has razed much of...

Israel making ‘no effort’ to probe Gaza war crimes allegations

Israel, despite its extensive legal expertise, has not properly investigated war crimes allegations brought against it during the war in Gaza, according to Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), reports Al Jazeera. The question is have those judges [in...

Netanyahu announces deal to release hostages after last-minute snags in Gaza ceasefire negotiations

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Friday that a deal to release hostages held in Gaza had been reached, despite earlier delays and last-minute snags in finalizing a ceasefire that would pause the ongoing 15-month conflict. Netanyahu said the deal, which would see the return of...

Israel delays approval of Gaza ceasefire, but US confirms deal on track

Israel has postponed approving a ceasefire deal with Palestinian militant group Hamas, which includes the release of hostages, but the United States remains confident the agreement will proceed as planned. Despite the delay, the US expects the ceasefire to take effect by Sunday, citing no...

Israeli airstrikes continue in Gaza despite ceasefire agreement

Israeli air and artillery strikes persist in Gaza despite the announcement of a ceasefire deal between Israel and the Palestinian resistance group Hamas. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reports that, since Wednesday, 81 Palestinians have been killed and 188 others injured in ongoing Israeli...

Israeli attacks kill dozens in Gaza after ceasefire deal announced

Israeli forces have killed at least 82 people in Gaza, medical sources told Al Jazeera, including at least 30 people in Gaza City in the hours since Hamas and Israel announced they had reached a ceasefire agreement. One attack on a house in Gaza City on Wednesday night killed at least 18 people,...

Biden says Gaza deal based on his framework while Trump claims credit

US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump both claimed credit on Wednesday for a Gaza ceasefire-for-hostages deal that was months in the making but was helped across the line by a Trump envoy. In announcing the ceasefire, Biden noted the final deal largely mirrored the framework of...

Blinken optimistic about Gaza cease-fire amid past setbacks

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed optimism on Tuesday about securing a cease-fire in Gaza as negotiations reach a pivotal stage. Speaking at the Atlantic Council in Washington, Blinken confirmed progress in talks mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and the U.S., aimed at ending Israels...

Israeli cabinet to approve Gaza deal

Israeli Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter said that National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich know well that their votes will not be decisive regarding the deal to return the abductees, reports Al Jazeera. We are in decisive moments regarding the return of...

Israel kills over 50 Palestinians in Gaza; hospitals overflowing

According to Gazas Civil Defense, more than 50 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, amid a worsening humanitarian disaster caused by the ongoing brutal conflict, report presstv.ir. Mahmoud Bassal, the agencys spokesman, said Mondays deadly...

Some Israeli soldiers refuse to keep fighting in Gaza

Yotam Vilk says the image of Israeli soldiers killing an unarmed Palestinian teenager in the Gaza Strip is seared in his mind. An officer in the armored corps, Vilk said the instructions were to shoot any unauthorized person who entered an Israeli-controlled buffer zone in Gaza. He saw at least...

Gaza ceasefire deal close after 'breakthrough' in Doha

Negotiators will meet in Doha on Tuesday seeking to finalise details of a plan to end the war in Gaza after US President Joe Biden said a ceasefire and hostage release deal he has championed was on the brink of coming to fruition. Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of an agreement on...

Israeli raids kill 13 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn

An Israeli air raid on Jabalia in northern Gaza has killed one Palestinian and injured five, reports Al Jazeera. A correspondent of the media outlet said at least 13 Palestinians have been killed in separate Israeli raids on the northern Gaza Strip since dawn on Monday. The Israeli army has...

Israel launches ‘large bombing operation’ in Lebanon

The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that Israeli forces carried out a large bombing operation in the southern town of Kfar Kila in the early hours of the morning, causing tremors in the surrounding towns, reports Al Jazeera. It said Israeli forces are also carrying out a wide...

Biden speaks with Netanyahu, urges ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Gaza

United States President Joe Biden has spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the ongoing talks for a ceasefire in Gaza strip and stressed the immediate need for a ceasefire, as well as the return of Israeli captives held in the Palestinian enclave, reports Al Jazeera. The call...

Israeli attacks kill 70 children in Gaza in just five days

The Palestinian civil defense service reported on Sunday that Israel has killed at least 70 children in Gaza in just the last five days. The agency did not provide details on the age of the victims, only saying that they died in attacks targeting several areas across the Palestinian enclave,...

Ten Israeli soldiers killed in north Gaza in the past week

The deaths of the four Israeli soldiers in Beit Hanoon on Saturday have taken the death toll to 10 in the past week, according to The Times of Israel. Three other soldiers were killed in the northern Gaza town last Wednesday, while three more were killed in the previous two days, said the media...

Netanyahu sends Mossad chief to Gaza ceasefire talks

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar, his office said Saturday, in a sign of progress in talks on the war in Gaza, reports Al Jazeera. It was not immediately clear when David Barnea would...

Turkish FM warns about risk of Israeli expansionism

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that Israels expansionist policies represent both a regional risk and a threat to the international community, reports Al Jazeera. Issue is not Turkiyes problem alone, Fidan said at a news conference on Friday. We will face and overcome global and...

Netanyahu ‘sabotaging every deal’ to free captives: Israeli mother tells Trump

The family of an Israeli captive held in Gaza has filmed a video message for US President-elect Donald Trump accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of sabotaging efforts to negotiate a ceasefire with Hamas, reports Al Jazeera. The family also call on Trump to intervene and end the...

Israeli strikes kill 15-day-old baby in Gaza

Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza, killing at least 19people in pre-dawn attacks late Tuesday, including two infants, one of whom was aged 15 days. The deaths came hours after Israel bombed the so-called safe-zone of al-Mawasi and killed at least five children. US President-elect Donald...

US Senator condemns Biden’s plan to send Israel more weapons

US Senator Bernie Sanders has spoken out against the Biden administrations decision to approve $8bn in new weapons for Israel, reports Al Jazeera. The U.S. must not send more bombs to Netanyahus extremist government, which has already killed 45,000 people; destroyed Gazas housing, healthcare,...

Three Israeli settlers killed, six hurt in retaliatory shooting operation

At least three Israeli settlers have been killed in a retaliatory shooting operation in the northern part of the West Bank, as tensions have flared up in the occupied territory since the beginning of the Tel Aviv regimes genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Press TV reported. Eli Bin, head of the...

Israeli soldiers face growing risk of arrest abroad after Gaza service

A former Israeli soldier on vacation in Brazil fled the country suddenly after a case was brought against him there alleging he was responsible for war crimes while serving in Gaza. The case is the latest in a series of lawsuits brought by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) that has tracked the...

At least 30 killed in Gaza by Israeli strikes

At least 30 people, including children, were killed in Gaza by Israeli strikes overnight and into Friday morning, hospital staff said, as sirens also sounded across Israel and stalled ceasefire talks were set to resume. Staff at the Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital said more than a dozen women and...

Israeli airstrikes kill 40 including children in Gaza

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 40 people on Thursday across central and southern Gaza. The airstrike include an attack on a sprawling tent camp that Israel has repeatedly bombed despite designating it a humanitarian safe zone. Israel said the strike targeted a righ-ranking police officer,...

Suicide soars among Israeli soldiers since genocidal war on Gaza

The Israeli military reported that at least 28 soldiers are suspected to have died by suicide since itlaunched a genocidal war on Gazain October 2023. A military statement said 17 soldiers were killed in suspected suicides in 2024 alone. The figure is higher than 2023 when 17 soldiers were...