Israeli strikes hit dozens of targets in Gaza as ceasefire efforts stall
Jerusalem Reuters Israeli airstrikes hit about 40 targets across the Gaza Strip over the past day, the military said on Friday, hours after Hamas rejected an Israeli ceasefire offer that it said fell short of its demand to agree a full end to the war. Last month the Israeli military broke off a two-month truce […]
Hamas says it is ready to release all remaining hostages for an end to Gaza war
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Hamas wants a comprehensive deal to end the war in Gaza and swap all Israeli hostages for Palestinians jailed in Israel, a senior official from the Palestinian militant group said, rejecting Israel’s offer of an interim truce. In a televised speech, Khalil Al-Hayya, the group’s Gaza chief who leads its negotiating team, […]
Israel will keep Gaza buffer zone, minister says, as truce bid stalls
Jerusalem/Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israeli troops will remain in the buffer zones they have created in Gaza even after any settlement to end the war, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday, as efforts to revive a ceasefire agreement faltered. Since resuming military operations last month, Israeli forces have carved out a broad “security zone” extending […]
Essay: It’s Easter in Gaza, where Christians are praying for a miracle
GREGORY KHALIL, in an article first published on Religion News Service, says the war in Gaza has put Palestinian Christians – whose numbers have dwindled to less than one per cent of the population in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip – on the precipice…
Hamas armed wing says it lost contact with group holding Israeli-US hostage Alexander
Cairo, Egypt Reuters The armed wing of Hamas said on Tuesday it had lost contact with a group of militants holding Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander in the Gaza Strip. Abu Ubaida, the armed wing’s spokesperson, said on the Telegram that it lost contact after the Israeli army attacked the place where the militants were holding […]
Israeli makes new Gaza ceasefire proposal but prospects appear slim
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Mediator Egypt has presented a new Israeli proposal for a Gaza ceasefire to Hamas, Egyptian state-affiliated Al Qahera News TV said on Monday, but a senior Hamas official said at least two elements of the proposal were non-starters. Citing sources, Al Qahera said mediators awaited Hamas’ response. But senior Hamas official Sami […]
Aid worker missing after deadly attack on colleagues is held by Israel, ICRC says
Cairo, Egypt Reuters A Palestinian Red Crescent staff member who went missing in late March when 15 humanitarian workers were killed by Israeli fire is being detained by Israeli authorities, the rescue service and the Red Cross said on Sunday. A screenshot taken from a video published by the Palestinian Red Crescent and obtained from […]
Israeli missiles strike Gaza hospital, patients evacuated
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Two Israeli missiles hit a major Gaza hospital on Sunday, putting the emergency department out of action and damaging other structures, medics said, in a strike which Israel said was aimed at Hamas fighters exploiting the facility. Health officials at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital evacuated patients after a phone call from someone […]
Gazans struggle to find water as clean sources become increasingly scarce
Gaza/Cairo, Egypt Reuters Hundreds of thousands of Gaza City residents have lost their only source of clean water in the past week after supplies from Israel’s water utility were cut by the Israeli army’s renewed offensive, municipal authorities in the territory said. Many now have to walk, sometimes for miles, to get a small water […]
Israeli forces have completed encirclement of Gaza’s Rafah, military says
Jerusalem Reuters Israeli forces have completed the encirclement of Gaza’s Rafah, the military said on Saturday, part of an announced plan to seize more areas of the enclave, accompanied by large-scale evacuations of the population. The military has issued repeated evacuation warnings to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians across Rafah since it resumed operations in […]