Gaza Hamas has agreed to release all the remaining Israeli hostages but says it wants further negotiations on a number of key points outlined in the US peace plan. In a statement, the group said it agreed “to release all Israeli prisoners, both living and dead, according to the exchange
Washington President Donald Trump said he’s giving Hamas until 6 p.m. Sunday to accept the ceasefire proposal his administration offered this week to end the war in Gaza. “If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas,” Trump wrote Friday in a […]
Israel The Israeli navy has intercepted boats carrying aid to Gaza and detained the activists aboard, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg. Israel’s Foreign Ministry said several vessels that form part of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) had been “safely stopped” and that those aboard were being transferred to an Israeli port. It added the
Israel Opinion By Samuel Shay The regional reality is being shaped around four parallel arenas: Gaza, Syria and Lebanon, the completion of normalization with Saudi Arabia and its expansion to additional states, and the integration of the entire region into a broad technological – economic corridor. The key is the symphonic management of all arenas […]
Israel Opinion – By: Shmuel Shay, Entrepreneur and Economic Advisor for the Abraham Accords The political-diplomatic spectacle that took place yesterday at the White House was far more than a ceremonial act or an impressive diplomatic photo-op. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to present a perfect show to the world’s leaders, […]
USA Days after his defiant speech at the United Nations rejecting demands to end the war in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to confer with his most important supporter. But Monday’s meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington comes at a tenuous moment. Israel is increasingly isolated, losing support from many countries […]
Gaza Almost two years into the war in Gaza, alongside the ever-mounting death toll and flattened infrastructure, there’s another casualty of war: children’s education. With “nearly all” school-aged children out of education, the United Nations says they’re at risk of becoming a “lost generation.” According to the United Nations Relief and
USA Microsoft has fired four employees who participated in protests on company premises against the firm’s ties to Israel as it wages war i Gaza, including two who took part in a sit-in this week at the office of the company’s president. Anna Hattle and Riki Fameli received voicemails informing them that they were fired, the protest […]
Gaza Israeli tanks have pushed into a new areas on the edge of Gaza City as it steps up its bombardment of the Palestinian urban centre. Residents in suburbs on the outskirts said tanks shelled houses, forcing people who were caught by surprise to move deeper into the city. Israel is preparing to launch a […]
Gaza Among those killed was 33-year-old freelance journalist Mariam Dagga, who had recently reported for the Associated Press on children suffering from starvation at the same hospital. Witnesses said two strikes hit within minutes: the first on the fourth floor, where surgical units and doctors’ quarters are located, followed by a second that struck an […]