Arab, Muslim leaders to denounce Israel in Qatar meeting
Qatar said Saturday it will host a summit of Arab and Muslim leaders to denounce Israel’s attack on Hamas officials in Doha and to show solidarity with the Gulf state.
Qatar said Saturday it will host a summit of Arab and Muslim leaders to denounce Israel’s attack on Hamas officials in Doha and to show solidarity with the Gulf state.
Hamas accused the United States on Thursday of complicity in Israel’s deadly attack on its negotiators in Qatar, lambasting Israel for seeking to kill off Gaza truce talks as Doha buried the dead...
Qatar's interior ministry said a member of its internal security forces was killed in the Israeli strike targeting Hamas leaders in Doha on Tuesday.
Israel’s defence minister told Hamas on Monday to lay down its arms or face annihilation, after US President Donald Trump said the militant group must accept a deal to release hostages in Gaza.
Israel has stepped up air strikes and ground operations on Gaza City’s outskirts, sparking fears that it could worsen already dire conditions…
The Israeli military destroyed a high-rise in Gaza City on Friday, shortly after announcing it would target tall buildings identified as being used by Hamas ahead of its planned seizure of the urban hub.
Hamas denounced on Monday a plan reportedly being considered by US president Donald Trump for the United States to take control of the devastated Gaza Strip and for its population to be relocated.
Israel said Sunday its forces had killed the spokesman of Hamas’s armed wing in a strike on Gaza a day earlier, the latest fatality in the group’s senior ranks in the nearly two-year war.
The United Nations officially declared a famine in Gaza on Friday, blaming ‘systematic obstruction’ of aid by Israel during more than 22 months of war, with prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu swiftly dismissing the findings.
Israel’s defence minister approved a plan on Wednesday for the conquest of Gaza City and authorised the call-up of around 60,000 reservists, piling pressure on Hamas as mediators push for a ceasefire...
A Hamas source said on Monday that the Palestinian militants had agreed to a new proposal from mediators for a ceasefire in Gaza, devastated by more than 22 months of war between the Islamist group and Israel...
Gaza ceasefire talks remain in their ‘first phase’ after more than a week of talks, even as mediators step up efforts to broker a truce between Israel and Hamas, Qatar said Tuesday.
Stuttering Gaza ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas entered a second week on Monday, with US president Donald Trump still hopeful of a breakthrough and as more than 20 people were killed on the ground.
Indirect talks between Hamas and Israel for a ceasefire in Gaza are being held up by Israel’s proposals to keep troops in the territory, two Palestinian sources with knowledge of the discussions told AFP on Saturday...
Israel’s bid to crush Hamas’s capabilities and bring the hostages home dominated talks between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, the Israeli prime minister said, even as the Palestinian militants vowed no surrender in Gaza...
Israel and Hamas held indirect talks in Qatar on Monday, according to a Palestinian official, ahead of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting in Washington with President Donald Trump, who is pushing for a deal on Gaza...
Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas are set to resume Sunday in Doha for a Gaza truce and hostage release deal, ahead of a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House...
Israel was mulling its response on Saturday after Hamas said it was ready to start talks ‘immediately’ on a US-sponsored proposal for a Gaza ceasefire.
Hamas said Friday it was holding consultations with other Palestinian movements on a truce proposal in the war with Israel, in a possible sign that it was preparing for negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Palestinian group Hamas said on Wednesday it was discussing proposals for a Gaza ceasefire received from mediators, after US president Donald Trump said Israel backed a 60-day ceasefire in the war-ravaged territory...
US president Donald Trump said on Wednesday that ‘great progress’ was being made to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza as a new ceasefire push began more than 20 months since the start of the conflict...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Tuesday said that ‘the moment has come’ for a ceasefire in Gaza.
The White House said Thursday Israel had ‘signed off’ on a new Gaza ceasefire proposal submitted to Hamas, but the Palestinian group said the deal failed to satisfy its demands.
Israel said Wednesday its military killed Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’s presumed Gaza leader and the brother of Yahya, the slain mastermind of the October 2023 attacks that sparked the Gaza war...
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed at least 44 people across the war-ravaged Palestinian territory, where Israel has intensified a military offensive aimed at crushing Hamas...
Israel’s military launched intensified Gaza operations on Saturday aimed at ‘the defeat of Hamas’, with rescuers in the besieged Palestinian territory reporting at least 10 killed by new Israeli strikes...
Hamas said Monday that its armed wing had released a US-Israeli hostage, with a source close to the Islamist movement adding that Edan Alexander was handed over to the Red Cross in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis...
Palestinian group Hamas said its armed wing handed over a US-Israeli hostage held in Gaza since October 2023 on Monday, ahead of a regional visit by US president Donald Trump.
A Hamas delegation held two meetings with Egyptian and Qatari mediators in Doha this week but they produced no breakthrough in the search for a Gaza truce, sources close to the group said Friday.
Hamas insisted on Wednesday on a ‘comprehensive’ agreement to end its war with Israel, as rescuers said Israeli bombardment of Gaza killed at least 26 people amid a growing humanitarian catastrophe...