Gaza ceasefire “closer than ever”, Hamas says it is still awaiting Israeli maps
Doha, Qatar/Cairo, Egypt/Jerusalem Reuters Negotiators were trying to clinch agreement on Tuesday on the final details of a ceasefire in Gaza after marathon talks in Qatar, with mediators and the warring sides both saying a deal was closer than ever. However, after more than eight hours of talks, a senior Hamas official told Reuters late […]
Final draft of Gaza truce deal presented to sides after “breakthrough”, official says
Doha, Qatar/Cairo, Egypt Reuters Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of a deal on Monday to end the war in Gaza, an official briefed on the negotiations said, after a midnight “breakthrough” in talks attended by envoys of both outgoing US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump. Biden said a ceasefire and […]
Trump’s Middle East envoy meets Netanyahu on Saturday amid ceasefire push
Jerusalem/Cairo, Egypt Reuters US President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday amid a push to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, Netanyahu’s office said. After the meeting, Netanyahu dispatched a high-level delegation which included the head of the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency to Qatar in order to […]
Israeli military confirms hostage killed alongside father in Gaza
Jerusalem Reuters Israel confirmed on Friday that the remains of a hostage found killed in Gaza were of Hamza Ziyadne, the son of deceased hostage Youssef Ziyadne, whose body was found beside him in an underground tunnel near the southern city of Rafah. Israeli forces continued on Friday to pound Gaza, with Palestinian medics saying […]
Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza amid stepped up ceasefire push
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israeli strikes killed dozens of people across Gaza on Wednesday, Palestinian medics said, as talks to halt the fighting continued in Qatar and Israeli troops recovered the body of at least one hostage from a tunnel near the southern city of Rafah. Palestinian medical workers said an Israeli airstrike killed at least […]
Hamas stands by demand for end to Gaza war under hostage deal, as Trump deadline nears
Jerusalem/Cairo, Egypt Reuters Hamas stood by its demand on Tuesday that Israel fully end its assault on Gaza under any deal to release hostages, and said US President-elect Donald Trump was rash to say there would be “hell to pay” unless they go free by his 20th January inauguration. Officials from the Islamist group and […]
Blinken calls for push to get Gaza truce deal over “finish line”
Jerusalem/Cairo, Egypt Reuters US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Monday for a final push for a Gaza ceasefire before President Joe Biden leaves office, after a Hamas official told Reuters the group had cleared a list of 34 hostages as first to go free under a truce. “We very much want to bring […]
Hamas and Israel wrangle over talks as Israeli strikes in Gaza intensify
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israel and Hamas wrangled on Sunday over the details of a deal to halt fighting in the Gaza Strip and return hostages home, as Palestinian officials said intensified Israeli bombardments had killed more than 100 people over the weekend. A Hamas official said the group had approved a list of 34 Israeli […]
Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza Strip as new ceasefire talks begin
Cairo, Egypt/Gaza Reuters Israeli military strikes in the Gaza Strip have killed at least 70 people over the last day, Palestinian medics said on Saturday, as mediators launched a new ceasefire push to end the 15-month-old war. At least 17 of those who died were killed in airstrikes on two houses in Gaza City, the […]
Israeli airstrikes push up Gaza death toll amid new truce push
Cairo, Egypt/Jerusalem Reuters Israel has carried out airstrikes on dozens of Hamas targets in Gaza over the past 24 hours, it said on Friday, in attacks that Palestinian health authorities said had killed more than 110 people in two days. The surge in operations and casualties comes amid a renewed push to reach a ceasefire […]