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...
Freed Palestinian inmates were greeted by a cheering crowd in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday, after Hamas released three Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip in the fourth exchange under the group鈥檚 ceasefire deal with Israel...
Hamas and Israel will carry out their fourth hostage-prisoner swap of the Gaza ceasefire on Saturday, with the militant group to free three Israeli captives in exchange for 90 inmates in Israeli jails.
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...
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...
South Lebanon residents accompanied by the army tried to return to their villages on Monday, official media and AFP correspondents reported, a day after Israeli fire killed more than 20 people in the area.
Israeli troops opened fire in south Lebanon on Sunday, killing 15 residents and a Lebanese soldier, health officials said as hundreds of people tried to return to their homes on the deadline for Israel to withdraw.
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....
The Lebanese army on Saturday said it was ready to deploy its forces in the country鈥檚 south, accusing Israel of 鈥榩rocrastination鈥� in its withdrawal in time for a deadline the following day.
ON JANUARY 23rd, the Israeli army continued its offensive on the Jenin refugee camp in the north of the occupied Palestinian West Bank for the third consecutive day. The offensive, dubbed 鈥業ron Wall鈥� has killed 10 Palestinians so far, and left at least 40 wounded...
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...
US president Donald Trump said on Thursday he hoped to avoid military strikes on Iran鈥檚 nuclear programme, an option long mulled by Israel.
A Palestinian official said hundreds of people began leaving their homes in a flashpoint area of the occupied West Bank on Thursday as Israeli forces pressed a deadly operation.
Gunfire and explosions rocked the occupied West Bank鈥檚 Jenin area on Wednesday, a Palestinian official and an AFP reporter said, as the Israeli military pressed on for a second day with a large-scale raid...
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...
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas congratulated US president Donald Trump on his inauguration on Monday and said he was ready to work for peace with Israel based on a two-state solution.
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...
A fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war was holding Monday, following the dramatic exchange of three hostages for 90 Palestinian prisoners in an agreement aimed at ending more than 15 months of war in Gaza.
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.
Lebanon鈥檚 new president said on Saturday that Israel must withdraw from his country鈥檚 south by the January 26 deadline set to fully implement an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire agreed last year.
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.
THE Israeli government鈥檚 decision to ban the operations of the UNRWA in the Israeli-claimed territory and prohibit Israeli state agencies from having any contact with it or its representatives in October 2024 resurfaced...
Over 360 media workers were behind bars in the final month of 2024, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported on Thursday, highlighting China and Israel as jailing the highest number....
As ministers weighed whether to approve the fragile agreement, new Israeli strikes on about 50 targets in Gaza killed dozens of people on Thursday...