Israeli strikes killed at least 72 people across Gaza overnight and into Saturday, health workers said, as ceasefire prospects were said to be improving after 21 months of war. Three children and their parents were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent camp in Muwasi near the southern city of Khan Younis. They were…
US President Donald Trump on Friday expressed hope that a ceasefire in the Gaza conflict between Israel and Iran-backed Hamas militants could be reached soon, possibly within the coming week. Speaking from the Oval Office during an event celebrating a Congo-Rwanda accord, Trump said he had been in contact with individuals involved in efforts to…
Representative image (Photo: ANI) India refused to associate itself with a statement by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) condemning Israel’s military strikes on Iran in another show of solidarity with Israel this week, after it abstained from voting on a UN resolution seeking a ceasefire in Gaza. Like India, Iran is also a member of…
The Israeli military has claimed it has found a Hamas tunnel under a key hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. The tunnel located beneath the European Hospital served as a command and control centre for senior Hamas leaders and to launch attacks on Israeli forces, according to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Sharing a video…
Hamas is seeking amendments to the latest US ceasefire proposal for Gaza, a senior official told The Associated Press on Saturday, as hungry Palestinians stopped and emptied dozens of aid trucks. The Hamas official, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the talks, told news agency AP that the proposed amendments focus…
Bishara Bahbah, a Palestinian-American academic turned informal diplomat, is emerging as a central, if controversial, figure in Donald Trump’s unofficial Middle East strategy as the president seeks a breakthrough in Gaza. Reportedly instrumental in the release of US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander from Hamas custody, Bahbah has been operating behind the scenes to broker a broader…
Israel has rejected claims that Hamas agreed to a new Gaza ceasefire deal proposed by US envoy Steve Witkoff. An Israeli official said the proposal wasn’t put forward by Washington and said that no Israeli government could accept it. Witkoff also denied that Hamas had accepted any offer from him. Speaking to Reuters, he said,…
An Israeli airstrike hit a police station in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 10 people, local health authorities said, and Israel’s military said it had struck a command centre of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad groups. Medics said two Israeli missiles hit the police station, located near a market,…
Another round of negotiations to bring peace to Gaza has failed yet again, as the latest round in Cairo collapsed without agreement. The talks were designed to revive a broken truce and organise the release of Israeli hostages. But both Israel and Hamas declined to retreat from their central demands. Hamas reiterated its demand that…
Hamas has handed over four bodies of Israeli hostages to the Red Cross in Gaza, an Israeli security source told news agency Reuters early on Thursday. At around the same time of transferring the bodies, a Red Cross convoy carrying dozens of released Palestinian prisoners left Israel’s Ofer prison, reports said. A formal announcement on…