WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has decided to move ahead with the shipment of 500-pound bombs to Israel, which was previously paused due to concerns of Israel’s ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah and massive killings of civilians, a report said Wednesday. The bombs “are in the process of being shipped” after […]...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UK’s new Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday that relations with the US are “stronger than ever now” as he met with President Joe Biden for an Oval Office sit-down. “This special relationship is so important,” Starmer said in brief remarks before reporters were ushered out of the room....
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel killed at least 29 people in a strike at a school turned shelter in southern Gaza on Tuesday, a hospital source in Khan Yunis said. There was no immediate comment from Israel. Hamas’ Qatar-based political chief Ismail Haniyeh said he had warned mediators that the “catastrophic consequences...
Palestinian Territories – AFP A Hamas official said Sunday the group was ready to discuss a prisoner exchange deal with Israel even without a “complete” cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. The apparent easing of Hamas’s position comes as long-stalled diplomatic efforts to secure a cease-fire and prisoner exchange deal have ga...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Families of Israeli captives in Gaza say they would stage mass rallies if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to reach a cease-fire and prisoner swap deal with Palestinians. In a statement on X, the Association of Families of Israeli Prisoners Detained in Gaza said millions of people will demonstrate if the Israeli ...
Israel’s Mossad has confirmed that Qatar and Egypt have relayed a positive response from Hamas regarding Israel’s proposal for a prisoner and cease-fire agreement in Gaza. Axios reports that senior Israeli officials view the updated response as constructive, paving the way for more extensive negotiations. The Biden administration, ...
Beirut, Lebanon — AFP Hezbollah launched more than 200 rockets at Israeli military positions on Thursday as Israel continued its attacks in Gaza. The Iran-backed resistance group said its latest attack, which followed the launch of over 100 small rockets the previous day, came in response to Israel’s killing of a senior Hezbollah c...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The Gaza civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike early on Tuesday killed 10 members of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh’s family, in an attack the Israeli military did not immediately confirm. The strike hit the Haniyeh family home in Al-Shati refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, said Mahmud Bas...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is preparing to change the situation on its border with Lebanon but hopes there will be no need to do so, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, referring to the army’s ongoing confrontations with the Lebanese Hezbollah group. Speaking to Israel’s Channel 14 about the possibility of a full-blown war with […]...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that “intense” fighting in the southern Gaza city of Rafah is nearly over, more than eight months into the devastating war on the occupied Gaza Strip. “The intense phase of the fighting against Hamas is about to end,” Netanyahu...