Mediators make final push for Gaza truce 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�...
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Israel, Hamas agree deal for Gaza ceasefire, hostage release
Hamas has approved a Gaza truce and hostage release deal, Palestinian sources close to negotiations said Wednesday, after mediator Qatar expressed hope an agreement to end the war could be reached very soon...
Qatar says Gaza truce talks in 鈥榝inal stages鈥�
Key mediator Qatar said negotiations for a Gaza truce and hostage release deal were in their 鈥榝inal stages鈥� on Tuesday, adding that it was hopeful an agreement could be reached 鈥榲ery soon鈥�.
As stags dazzled by headlights
LOS Angeles is burning, singeing the rich and the homeless in its wake. Gaza is in cinders, leaving an unconscionable toll of a perpetually violated people, but not without wounding and unnerving the tormentors. The fire and the slaughter are both man-made tragedies and are linked, though difficult to accept as such...
鈥極n the brink鈥� of Gaza truce: Biden
鈥業n the war between Israel and Hamas, we鈥檙e on the brink of a proposal that I laid out in detail months ago finally coming to fruition,鈥� Biden said in a farewell speech at the State Department...
Fires in Gaza are fires in LA
EARLIER on January 8, I saw a prominent Zionist commentator and X (formerly Twitter) user post, 鈥楬as Greta Thunberg taken her keffiyeh off to address the fires in LA yet or are there too many Jews living here for her to be concerned?鈥� The weird implications about a mythical anti-Semitic malice that climate activist Greta Thunberg has to supposedly fuel...
The west makes war, the east, peace
WHILE the west subsidises carnage in Gaza and Ukraine, the east does the opposite. For instance, one potential far east flashpoint has long been the India/China border, but that鈥檚 changing 鈥� for the better, due to high-level meetings in December between political bigwigs from both countries. It was the first such confab since 2019, RT reported December...
32 killed in Gaza in 48hrs
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Saturday that 32 people were killed in the Palestinian territory over the past 48 hours, taking the overall death toll to 46,537.
Gaza death toll 40pc higher than recorded: Lancet study
The new peer-reviewed study used data from the ministry, an online survey and social media obituaries to estimate that there were between 55,298 and 78,525 deaths from traumatic injuries in Gaza by that time...
Israeli strikes kill 12 in Gaza
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli forces pounded the Palestinian territory on Thursday, killing at least 12 people including three girls, 15 months into the war...
Genocide: the new normal
JOE Biden鈥檚 parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza. This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. This is a permanent, endless war designed not to destroy Hamas, or free Israeli hostages, but to eradicate, once and for all, Palestinians in Gaza and...
7 children among killed as Israel hits Khan Yunisca
Gaza health officials said a wave of Israeli strikes hit the territory鈥檚 southern district of Khan Yunis on Tuesday evening, killing a dozen people, including seven children...
Hamas agrees to free 34 Gaza hostages under mooted deal
A Hamas official said Sunday the group was ready to free 34 hostages in the 鈥榝irst phase鈥� of a potential deal with Israel, after Israel said indirect talks on a truce and hostage release agreement had resumed in Qatar...
Israeli strikes kill 23 in Gaza
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency reported that Israeli strikes in the Palestinian territory had killed at least 23 people on Sunday, while the military said it had targeted more than 鈥�100 terror targets鈥� over the past two days.
Gaza truce talks resume as 30 killed in fresh Israeli attack
As the violence raged, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed that indirect negotiations with Hamas had resumed in Qatar for the release of hostages seized in the October 2023 attacks...
Israeli strikes kill 26 in Gaza
Rescuers in Gaza said on Saturday that Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory killed at least 26 people, the day after Hamas militants said peace talks were to resume.
Israeli strikes kill 12 in Gaza
Israel said three rockets were fired toward its territory on Friday from the Gaza Strip, where rescuers reported at least 12 people killed in Israeli strikes.
Israeli strikes kill police chief, two dozen others in Gaza
Israel struck a declared humanitarian zone in southern Gaza overnight, which rescuers on Thursday said killed the head of the territory鈥檚 Hamas-run police force, his deputy and nine others.
When healing is crime
THE ongoing genocide in Gaza is not simply a human crisis. It is a tale of paradoxes 鈥� of black and white, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil. In Gaza, there is unspeakable cruelty facing incredible courage, ugly betrayals in the midst of relentless sacrifice, constant lies opposed by glaring truths, and the worst forms of oppression against limitless resilience...
Israeli strikes kill 12 in Gaza
Israeli strikes killed at least 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, officials said on Wednesday, as the nearly 15-month war ground on into the new year with no end in sight...
Genocide, resistance and unanswered questions
THE story of the Israeli war on Gaza can be epitomised in the story of the Israeli war on Beit Lahia, a small Palestinian town in the northern part of the Strip...
Gaza healthcare nearing 鈥榯otal collapse鈥� due to Israeli strikes: UN
A United Nations report published Tuesday found that Israeli strikes on and near hospitals in the Gaza Strip had left healthcare in the Palestinian territory on the verge of collapse.
WHO demands Israel release Gaza hospital director
The WHO chief called Monday for the immediate release of Hossam Abu Safiyeh, director of Gaza鈥檚 Kamal Adwan Hospital, who is being held by Israel鈥檚 military following a major raid on the facility.
Israeli strike on Gaza hospital kills seven
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said an air strike hit a hospital Sunday, killing at least seven people, while Israel said it had targeted militants at the no longer functioning facility.
Gaza hospital shut after Israeli raid, director held: WHO
An Israeli military raid targeting Hamas militants has forced a major hospital in northern Gaza out of service and led to the detention of its director, the World Health Organization and health officials said Saturday.
Israeli strikes kill 37 in Gaza
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Friday that 37 people had been killed in the Palestinian territory in the past 24 hours, taking the overall war death toll to 45,436.
Israeli strike kills five journalists in Gaza
A Palestinian TV channel affiliated with a militant group said five of its journalists were killed Thursday in an Israeli strike on their vehicle in Gaza, with Israel鈥檚 military saying it had targeted a 鈥榯errorist cell鈥�.
Gaza official says Israel strikes on hospital 鈥榯errifying鈥�
An official from one of only two functioning hospitals in northern Gaza on Monday told AFP that Israeli forces were continuing to target his facility and urged the international community to intervene before 鈥榠t is too late.鈥�
Only 12 trucks delivered food, water in North Gaza since October: Oxfam
Just 12 trucks distributed food and water in northern Gaza in two-and-a-half months, aid group Oxfam said on Sunday, raising the alarm over the worsening humanitarian situation in the besieged territory...
Israeli strikes kill 28 in Gaza
Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said on Sunday Israeli strikes killed at least 28 Palestinians, as the director of one of two hospitals still operating in the territory鈥檚 north reported bombardment nearby.