President Donald Trump revealed an extraordinary plan Tuesday for the United States to take over the Gaza Strip, resettle Palestinians in other countries 鈥� seemingly whether they wanted to leave or not 鈥� and turn the territory into the Riviera of the Middle East...
Fifteen Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel under the terms of the Gaza ceasefire have arrived in Turkey, foreign minister Hakan Fidan said on Tuesday...
Iran on Monday condemned US president Donald Trump鈥檚 proposal to relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, warning it would amount to 鈥榚thnic cleansing鈥�.
GAZA is a wasteland of 50 million tons of rubble and debris. Rats and dogs scavenge amid the ruins and fetid pools of raw sewage. The putrid stench and contamination of decaying corpses rises from beneath the mountains of shattered concrete. There is no clean water. Little food. A severe shortage of medical services and hardly any habitable...
Hundreds of people attended a protest near Egypt鈥檚 border with Gaza on Friday against a plan floated by US president Donald Trump to move Palestinians from the territory to Egypt and Jordan, Egyptian media reported.
Israel on Thursday suspended the planned release of Palestinian prisoners after Gaza鈥檚 Hamas members freed three Israeli hostages and five Thais amid chaotic scenes....
Two Hamas officials on Wednesday accused Israel of delaying the delivery of vital humanitarian aid to Gaza, as agreed in the ceasefire deal, and warned that it could impact the release of hostages...
Qatar reaffirmed its support for a two-state solution on Tuesday after US president Donald Trump repeated his call to move Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt or Jordan.
Masses of displaced Palestinians began streaming towards the north of the war-battered Gaza Strip on Monday after Israel and Hamas said they had reached a deal for the release of another six hostages...
US president Donald Trump floated a plan Saturday to 鈥榡ust clean out鈥� Gaza, and said he wants Egypt and Jordan to take Palestinians from the territory in a bid to create Middle East peace.
JUST two days after a shaky ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip, Israel this week launched a large-scale incursion of the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank...
A vast crowd of Gazans massed near an Israeli military barrier preventing them from heading to their homes in the north on Sunday amid a row between Hamas and Israel over the terms of their ceasefire deal....
Four freed Israeli women hostages were home in Israel Saturday, ending more than 15 months of captivity after Hamas militants handed them over to the Red Cross under a truce deal in the Gaza war.
The Israel-Hamas war has put back development in Gaza by 60 years and mobilising the tens of billions of dollars needed for reconstruction will be an uphill task...
WHEN a president has failed as miserably as Joe Biden, you have to change the subject. You have to distract the public...
Hamas said on Tuesday it will release four women hostages in the next swap with Israel under the terms of a fragile truce intended to bring to an end to 15 months of war in Gaza...
FOLLOWING every Israeli war on Gaza, numerous narratives emerge. Some claim victory for one side and defeat for the other, while others 鈥� knowingly or unknowingly 鈥� attempt to exploit the aftermath for their own purposes...
TWINNING the terms 鈥榗easefire鈥� and 鈥楪aza鈥� seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the ceasefire announced on January 15 between Israel and Hamas could have been reached so much earlier by all the concerned parties. But will was lacking in Washington to force Israel鈥檚 hand, and Israeli prime minister...
The World Health Organisation said Sunday it was ready to pour much-needed aid into Gaza during the Israel-Hamas truce, but that it would need 鈥榮ystematic access鈥� across the territory to do so.
Thousands of displaced, war-weary Gazans set off across the devastated Palestinian territory to return to their home areas on Sunday, after a long-awaited truce between Israel and Hamas took effect following an initial delay.
ISRAEL, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants 鈥� in this case the release of the Israeli hostages in Gaza 鈥� but Israel habitually fails to implement subsequent phases that would lead to a just and equitable peace. It eventually...
A ceasefire in the Gaza war will begin Sunday morning, mediator Qatar said on Saturday after Israel鈥檚 cabinet voted to approve the truce and hostage-prisoner release deal.
In a sprawling tent city in central Gaza, Palestinians displaced by war to other parts of the territory are all waiting for one thing: a ceasefire so they can go home.
At least $10 billion will likely be needed to rebuild Gaza鈥檚 devastated health system over the next five to seven years, according an initial World Health Organisation assessment Thursday.
Israel鈥檚 security cabinet approved in a vote on Friday a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal that should take effect this weekend, the prime minister鈥檚 office said.
As ministers weighed whether to approve the fragile agreement, new Israeli strikes on about 50 targets in Gaza killed dozens of people on Thursday...
After news of a ceasefire agreement sparked mass rejoicing in Gaza, residents woke up Thursday to columns of smoke, rubble and more deaths following new Israeli air strikes...
THE announced ceasefire agreement between Israel and Gaza is reminiscent of the last days of the Carter administration, a time when American hostages were released with Reagan (and his behind-the-scenes machinations) taking credit for ending the hostage impasse.聽 Be on the look-out for Trump to take 95 per cent of the credit...
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Thursday that at least seven people had been killed in fresh Israeli strikes in the Palestinian territory, hours before Israel鈥檚 cabinet was set to vote on a ceasefire deal...
Mediators were making a final push Wednesday to seal a Gaza truce and hostage release deal, after a Qatari official involved in the talks expressed hope an agreement could be reached 鈥榲ery soon鈥�...