WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threatened that there would be severe consequences if Israelis held in Gaza were not freed by January 20. “Everybody is talking about the hostages who are being held so violently, inhumanely, and against the will of the entire World, in the Middle East – But it’s all [&...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The army’s freeing two Israelis from Rafah is not a victory to Tel Aviv, said a relative of one of the prisoners that the Israeli military claimed to have rescued on Monday. “The fact that we are happy today does not mean that we are victorious,” Eidan Piarno, the son-in-law of the […]
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stopped his defense minister from holding separate talks with the director of Israel’s Mossad spy agency on efforts to secure the release of Israeli detainees in Gaza, the local media has reported. Israel’s Channel 12 cited government sources which said that Yoav Gallant has bee...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine has condemned a UK decision to carry out surveillance flights over the Gaza Strip, saying the move makes London complicit in the Israeli onslaught on the Palestinian enclave. “Britain’s decision to send surveillance planes over Gaza reflects complicity in the Israeli genocidal war [on Gaza],R...
Barcelona, Spain — AFP The EU’s top foreign policy official Josep Borrell has called for an extension of the truce in the Gaza Strip, which is to end on Tuesday. The four-day pause has seen tearful reunions of dozens of Palestinian prisoners as well as the return of Israeli hostages in the first relief in […]
JERUSALEM (AA/AFP) – As Israel and Hamas announced a truce-for-hostage deal on Wednesday, Israeli media revealed details of the agreement. According to Israeli Channel 12, the deal is expected to be implemented on Thursday or Friday. Under the Qatar-mediated agreement, 50 Israelis held by Hamas will be released in exchange for 150 Palestinian ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – There has been significant progress in talks to release Israelis captured by Hamas, Israeli media reported Friday. An informed source told the official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation Friday that there has been significant progress in talks to release the Israelis. “There is significant progress in the deal to rel...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Hamas said Monday that it had freed two more women taken from Israel during the October 7 attacks. The Palestinian group’s military wing said the two elderly women, identified as Yocheved Lifshitz and Nurit Cooper, had been freed for “compelling humanitarian” reasons following mediation by ...
