U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday (March 5, 2025) threatened further destruction of Gaza if all remaining hostages are not released, and issued an ultimatum to Hamas leaders to flee. Strongly backing Israel as a ceasefire teeters, Mr. Trump said he was “sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job” as his administration expedites…
Negotiations between Israel and Hamas on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire began on Thursday (February 27, 2025) in the Egyptian capital, Egypt said, averting a collapse ahead of Saturday’s (March 1, 2025) expiration of the agreement’s first phase. Officials from Israel, Qatar and the United States started âintensive discussionsâ on the ceasefire accord’s…
Trucks carrying aid move, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 5, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters More than 10,000 aid trucks have crossed into Gaza since a fragile ceasefire took hold on January 19, the United Nations humanitarian chief said on Thursday (February 6, 2025). “We’ve…
Palestinian Hamas militants release Keith Siegel, a hostage held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, on February 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Hamas has handed American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, 65, over to the Red…
Family members and supporters of Israeli hostage Agam Berger, a soldier who was seized from her Army base in southern Israel during the deadly October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, react as they watch a broadcast of Ms. Berger during her release, in Holon, Israel on January 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Hamas began…
Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages, kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, hold pictures of hostages and banners as they protest demanding the release of all hostages in Tel Aviv, Israel January 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel will continue to follow the Gaza peace deal until all the hostages…
Palestinians wait to be allowed to return to their homes in northern Gaza with vehicles through Salahudeen road after they were displaced to the south at Israelâs order during the war, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, on January 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel on Monday (January…
A Palestinian man was killed and seven people were wounded by Israeli fire overnight, local health officials said Sunday (January 26, 2025), as thousands gathered in hopes of returning to the northern Gaza Strip under a fragile week-old ceasefire aimed at winding down the war. In a separate development, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Saturday…
Palestinians stand during an Israeli raid, in Jenin camp in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on January 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Palestinian official said hundreds of people began leaving their homes in a flashpoint area of the occupied West Bank on Thursday (January 23, 2025) as Israeli forces pressed a deadly operation. The…
This image released by the state-run Oman News Agency show the crew of the Galaxy Leader arriving in Muscat, Oman, after being released by Yemenâs Houthi rebels on January 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Wednesday (January 22, 2025) released the crew of the Galaxy Leader, a vehicle carrier seized in…
