Ireland warmly welcomed the hostage release and ceasefire agreement in Gaza and has echoed calls for the return of all hostages to their families. The hostage release and ceasefire deal must be fully implemented in all its phases. Announcing the funding, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade said: “The ceasefire and hostage […]
“We’ve moved over 10,000 trucks in the two weeks since the ceasefire, a massive surge,” Tom Fletcher said on X. The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator added that he was “about to cross into northern Gaza with a convoy of aid”. “Thank you to the many people making it possible to […]
The inmates departed from the Israeli prison in the occupied West Bank after three Israeli hostages were handed over by Hamas in Gaza in a fourth such exchange agreed under the ceasefire deal. An AFP correspondent reported that the bus had reached Beitunia near Ramallah where prisoners disembarked and were greeted by cheering crowds of […]
Ofer Kalderon, a French-Israeli dual national, and Yarden Bibas were seen being handed over to a Red Cross official in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, in the latest stage of a phased exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners. Israeli-American Keith Siegel was handed over separately a few hours later at the Gaza City […]
A fourth exchange is scheduled for the weekend, but Hamas accused Israel on Wednesday of jeopardizing the deal by holding up aid deliveries, an allegation Israel dismissed as “fake news”. The office of the Israeli Prime Minister identified the three Israelis to be released Thursday as Arbel Yehud, Agam Berger, and Gadi Moses, adding that […]
In a call with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Rubio “stressed the United States is deeply troubled by escalation of the ongoing conflict in eastern DRC, particularly the fall of Goma to the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group,” a State Department statement said. The new top US diplomat “urged an immediate ceasefire in the region, and for […]
Their return went ahead after Hamas agreed to hand over three Israeli hostages this week and Israeli forces began to withdraw from a main corridor across the enclave under terms of an agreement on a ceasefire in the 15-month-long war. In Israel, families of hostages waited anxiously for news of their loved ones. Along a […]
The breakthrough preserves a fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, which has devastated the Gaza Strip and displaced nearly all its residents, paving the way for more hostage-prisoner swaps under a deal aimed at ending the more than 15-month conflict. Israel had been preventing vast crowds of Palestinians from using a coastal road to return […]
Israel said on Friday it would keep troops in the south beyond the Sunday deadline set out in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire that halted last year’s war with Hezbollah, saying Lebanon had not yet fully enforced terms requiring south Lebanon to be free of Hezbollah arms and the Lebanese army to be deployed. Lebanon’s US-backed military, […]
The intelligence indicates a similar number of Hamas fighters have been killed during that period, the sources said. The latest official U.S. estimates have not been previously reported. Hamas and Israel began a ceasefire on Sunday after 15 months of a conflict that has devastated the Gaza Strip and inflamed the Middle East. The sources […]
