JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken of an Israeli initiative to secure the release of those held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “There is an initiative of ours. I will not elaborate,” Netanyahu said during a meeting with relatives of Israelis held by Hamas. Hamas is believed to be holding […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Families of Israelis held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip stormed a parliamentary committee session in Jerusalem on Monday to demand a deal to secure their release. “You won’t sit here while they are dying there!” reads a sign held by relatives as they stormed a meeting of the Knesset’s Finance [&hel...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army announced Sunday evening that it retrieved the bodies of five Israelis from a tunnel in the Gaza Strip. The announcement came a day after the Al-Qassam Brigades said that it lost contact with a group responsible for five Israeli prisoners and that they might have been killed in Israeli […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hamas’ armed wing on Saturday said that five Israelis might have been killed in an Israeli attack, as it lost contact with a group holding them. In a statement on Telegram, Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, said: “As a result of the brutal Zionist bombardment, we have […]
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 ...
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...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli detainees held in the Gaza Strip fear for their lives due to Israeli airstrikes on the enclave, and have asked the Netanyahu government: “Do you want us dead?” The military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Al-Quds Brigades, aired a video of two Israeli detainees held in the Gaza […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – An Israeli woman who was freed in a recent prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas says her mother was killed and she was wounded when Israeli forces opened fire on the vehicle in which they were abducted. In an interview that aired on Israel’s Channel 12, the woman recounted being taken by […]
