JERUSALEM (AA) – Hamas has demanded the release of three top Palestinian leaders in any prisoner swap deal, according to the Israeli media. Hamas insists Marwan Barghouti, Ahmed Saadat and Abdullah Barghouti be on the list of prisoners to be released in any new deal, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported. Barghouti, 64, a member of Fatah’s [&hel...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Government is preparing the public for possible “tough decisions”, including releasing “dangerous” Palestinian prisoners as part of a new prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas, Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) has reported. Tel Aviv is discussing with mediators the release of dozens ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli army is holding hundreds of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, said to be “Hamas’ armed wing elite forces members”, in extremely inhuman conditions. Israeli Channel 12 estimated that 300 members of the Al-Qassam Brigades elite forces, known as Nakba Forces, are currently being held in Israel. It ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel has ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza’s main city as diplomats pressed on with efforts to secure a pause in the war that Hamas says has claimed 20,000 lives. The United Nations said Israel had issued evacuation orders on Wednesday for large areas of Khan Yunis, where more than 140,000 [&...
ANKARA (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that the idea of fighting against terrorism should not be about “razing the Gaza Strip to the ground.” Macron claimed that Paris’ position had been the same since the start of the conflict in the Middle East, despite what critics have said. “We cannot a...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) — The armed wing of Palestinian group Hamas said Wednesday that its fighters had killed 25 Israeli soldiers and injured dozens over the past three days in the Gaza Strip. In a statement, the Al-Qassam Brigades’ spokesman Abu Obeida said the group’s fighters had also destroyed or damaged 41 Israeli military...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A delegation from the Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad will visit Egypt for talks on a possible prisoner swap deal with Israel, according to a group official. “The delegation will discuss ways to stop the [Israeli] war on Gaza and a prisoner exchange deal,” Ziad al-Nakhala, Secretary-General of Islamic Jih...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has announced that a paratrooper commander was killed in clashes with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, bringing their total death toll since October 7 to 466. The army said in a statement that Major Reserve Orel Cohen, 33, of the Givati Brigade, was killed in a battle in southern […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli war on the Gaza Strip has left 26,700 people dead and missing since Oct. 7, the government media office in the enclave said Wednesday. “Around 20,000 dead people have been admitted to hospitals, including 8,000 children and 6,200 women,” the media office said in a statement. The victims […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday said Israel’s war on Gaza “needs to move“ and “will move to a lower intensity phase.” “We expect to see, and want to see, a shift to more targeted operations, with a smaller number of forces that are really focused on dealing with the […]
