Humanitarian aid is reaching Gaza, but Hamas says Israel is blocking critical supplies. Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem accuses Israel of preventing aid, including tents and rubble-clearing equipment, despite the ceasefire. He has urged mediators to intervene. Trucks carrying aid are entering Gaza through the Rafah border crossing. The ceasefire...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel said Tuesday that it will send a negotiating team to Qatar this weekend for talks on the second phase of a Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement. A statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the team will discuss “technical details related to continuing to carry out” the agreement. The [&he...
All eyes are on the meeting between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week. The talks come at a crucial time, with Israeli assaults against Palestinians continuing unabated. Netanyahu, who is facing political pressure at home, is seeking firm backing from the White House. Trump has shown strong support f...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian people will not accept resettlement plans or an alternative homeland, the presidency said. “The (Israeli) occupation authorities are expanding their all-out war on the Palestinian people in the West Bank to implement their plans aimed at displacing citizens and carrying out ethnic cleansin...
ANKARA (AA) – Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has handed over three Israeli captives in two locations in the Gaza Strip to the International Committee of the Red Cross as part of the ongoing prisoner exchange deal. According to a media correspondent, two Israeli captives – Ofer Calderon and Yarden Bibas – were [&...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Thirty-two Palestinians were released from Israeli jails on Saturday as part of the fourth batch of the prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas. The freed prisoners were handed over to the International Red Cross from the Ofer Prison facility near Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, in line with […...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas has slammed the US statements on displacing Palestinians from Gaza as “absurd and meaningless.” In a statement, Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas leader, said the “plans to displace Palestinians from Gaza are absurd and meaningless,” stressing: “What the Israeli occupation failed to achiev...
Palestinians returning to the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in southern Gaza City have encountered widespread destruction and rubble caused by Israel’s genocide in the region. Following the so-called ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, Gaza residents are being allowed to return to their homes. They continue to struggle for survival in tents set up ...
NEW YORK (MNTV) – UN Secretary-General António Guterres has issued an urgent appeal for the immediate evacuation of 2,500 critically ill children from Gaza, warning they face imminent death without medical intervention. His plea follows harrowing testimonies from four U.S. doctors who recently returned from the war-ravaged enclave, painting a ...
JERUSALEM- (AA) An American held in Gaza will be released on Friday, President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy said on Thursday. “We’re on top of it all – one is coming out tomorrow,” said Steve Witkoff in response to a question from journalists regarding efforts to return Israeli captives holding US citizenship. Palestinian group Hamas [&hel...
