WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden said on Monday he does not think Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing enough to secure a deal with Hamas. His remarks came in response to a reporter’s question during his arrival at the White House. The US president also said he believed a final deal for […]
Palestinian Territories – AFP A polio vaccination campaign officially began Sunday in the Gaza Strip where the United Nations has announced “humanitarian pauses” to allow for large-scale innoculation, a health official told AFP. The campaign was announced after Gaza recorded its first polio case in a quarter of a century last...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A senior Hamas official stated on Sunday that the six Israelis recently found dead in Gaza were killed as a result of Israeli airstrikes, challenging the Israeli army’s claim that Hamas executed them. Izzat al-Rishq’s remarks came shortly after the Israeli army announced that it had discovered the bodies...
ANKARA (AA) – The Israeli army announced on Sunday that the bodies of six individuals who were taken prisoner on Oct. 7 were found and recovered late Saturday from Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip. The army identified them as Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, and Master Sergeant [...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Sunday’s strikes in Lebanon were “not the final word” in his country’s military campaign against Hezbollah. “We are striking Hezbollah with surprising, crushing blows… This is another step towards changing the situation in...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to President Joe Biden to withdraw the army one kilometer from the 14-kilometer-long Philadelphi Corridor, which runs along the Gaza-Egypt border while leaving a minimal number of military sites in the area, according to Israeli media. The pledge comes as part of ongoing discu...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Palestinian resistance groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad have affirmed their conditions for any agreement with Israel, including a halt to the Gaza war, a full Israeli withdrawal, reconstruction, ending the blockade and a serious prisoner exchange deal. This was outlined in a statement released by Hamas following a meeti...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still insists on maintaining control over the Philadelphi Corridor in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, the public broadcaster KAN has reported. “The prime minister has not changed his position on the need for Israeli control and presence in the Philadelphi Corrid...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Qatar and Egypt have warned the US that there is “little chance” for the Palestinian group Hamas to accept its latest proposal for a Gaza cease-fire, Israeli media reported. Gaza cease-fire talks in Qatar concluded on Friday with a new “proposal that narrows the gaps” between Israel and Hamas, cla...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Top US diplomat Antony Blinken on Monday urged Israel and Hamas not to derail negotiations that he said may be a “last opportunity” to secure a Gaza truce and prisoner release deal. Blinken, on his ninth regional tour since Israel launched its current war on Gaza in October last year, said […...
