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100 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza

Israel said it had carried out strikes on dozens of Hamas targets following the death of a soldier, with Gaza experiencing its deadliest night of bombing since a US-brokered truce went into effect earlier this month.

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Hamas to return another hostage body

Hamas said it would hand over another hostage body, as the Palestinian group faced accusations of breaching the Gaza ceasefire after returning only the partial remains of a previously recovered captive to Israel...

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Israel insists it calls shots in Gaza despite truce

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Sunday that Israel would decide for itself when to strike its foes and which countries could join an international security force in Gaza, as Egyptian recovery crews arrived...

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Armed groups clashing with Hamas in Gaza

Shortly after a ceasefire took effect in Gaza, clashes erupted between armed groups, some backed by Israel and others loyal to Hamas, as the Islamist movement sought to reassert control over the devastated territory...

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Rubio vows return of all hostage bodies to Israel

US secretary of state Marco Rubio vowed Saturday to secure the return of all deceased hostages still held in Gaza, as he met with the families of two captives during his visit to Israel...

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Peace summit is no guarantee for peace

THE recently concluded Gaza peace summit, sponsored by US president Donald J Trump before a US-Israel-imposed 20-point Gaza peace plan championed by the fragile peace initiative, was signed by the United States, Egypt, Qatar and Türkiye, with a couple of other world leaders acting as ‘cheerleaders.’ This presents a look of an international consensus. However, this...

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US seeks quick deployment of int’l Gaza force

US secretary of state Marco Rubio voiced hope Friday of soon putting together an international force to police the ceasefire in Gaza and said Israel, which opposes including Turkey, could veto participants.

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WHO pleads for sick Gazans to be allowed to leave

The UN’s health agency pleaded Friday for thousands of people in desperate need of medical care to be allowed to leave Gaza, in what it said would be a ‘game-changer’.

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Israel court postpones Gaza access

An organisation representing international media in Israel and the Palestinian territories expressed disappointment Thursday after Israel’s top court postponed its hearing on granting journalists independent access to Gaza...

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US pushes plan to disarm Hamas, rebuild Gaza

Vice president JD Vance warned Wednesday that the United States and allies face a tough task disarming Hamas and building a peaceful future for Gaza, as Washington sought to reassure Israel over the next steps in its ambitious ceasefire deal...

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A Gaza gambit: the art of the doomed deal

I AM rarely surprised by anything Trump says anymore. There is no lie too transparent to stop him — remember ‘sunny’when it was overcast? Or his absurdly erroneous claims that he ‘ended seven wars,’ including conflicts between Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and...

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Nepal PM honours slain hostage returned from Gaza

Nepal’s interim prime minister on Monday draped a national flag over the coffin of returned Gaza hostage Bipin Joshi, released under the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas...

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9 killed in Israeli strike on bus in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed nine members of a single Palestinian family when they shelled a bus on Friday, after the military confirmed it had targeted a vehicle that crossed the so-called ‘yellow line’...

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Hamas says committed to Gaza truce

Hamas insisted it was committed to returning all the hostage remains still unaccounted for under Gaza’s ruins, as a Turkish official said specialists dispatched to help find bodies were awaiting Israel’s authorisation to enter.

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Palestinian PM meets UN team, diplomats

The Palestinian Authority’s prime minister met Thursday with UN and diplomatic officials to present a plan for Gaza’s reconstruction, despite uncertainties over his government’s role in the war-shattered territory’s future.

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Gaza declaration signed

US president Donald Trump hailed a ‘tremendous day for the Middle East’ as he and regional leaders signed a declaration meant to cement a ceasefire in Gaza, hours after Israel and Hamas exchanged hostages and prisoners.

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Gaza deal brings hope for Ukraine: Zelensky

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday hailed the ‘extraordinary’ Gaza ceasefire as bringing hope that US president Donald Trump could broker an end to the Russian invasion of his country.

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Clashes between Hamas, clan members kill 27 in Gaza

At least 27 people have been killed in fierce clashes between Hamas security forces and armed members of the Dughmush family in Gaza City, in one of the most violent internal confrontations since the end of major Israeli operations in the enclave, reports BBConline.