Turkey severed trade with Israel last year over its war in Gaza with the Palestinian militant group Hamas. This week Israel and Hamas began carrying out a ceasefire deal. Answering reporters’ questions in Istanbul, Olpak also said DEIK has heard reports of payment issues for goods exported to Russia via Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, without elaborating. […]
“Humanitarian aid continues to move into the Gaza Strip as part of a prepared surge to increase support to survivors,” the UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA) said. “Today, 915 trucks crossed into Gaza, according to information received through engagement with Israeli authorities and the guarantors for the ceasefire agreement.” Throughout the conflict in Gaza, the UN […]
The three hostages released Sunday, all women, were reunited with their families and taken to a hospital in central Israel where a doctor said they were in stable condition. Hours later in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian prisoners released by Israel in exchange left Ofer prison on buses at around 1:00 am (2300 GMT Sunday), […]
Israel “only succeeded in committing war crimes that disgrace the dignity of humanity,” the group said in a statement. A ceasefire in the Gaza war will begin Sunday morning at 0630 GMT, mediator Qatar said on Saturday after Israel’s cabinet voted to approve the truce and hostage-prisoner release deal. The exact time of the ceasefire’s […]
It said in a statement on its website that “the government approves” the “release (of) 737 prisoners and detainees” currently in the custody of the prison service. Israel’s cabinet voted to approve the ceasefire deal early Saturday, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, ending days of uncertainty about whether the truce would go into […]
“I am happy, yes, I am crying, but those are tears of joy,” said Ghada, a mother of five displaced from her home in Gaza City during the 15-month-old conflict. “We are being reborn, with every hour of delay Israel conducted a new massacre, I hope it is all getting over now,” she told Reuters […]
In a statement, Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan hoped that the truce would lead to a permanent ceasefire and help in scaling up humanitarian assistance. The spokesperson said indiscriminate use of force by Israeli occupation forces has caused unprecedented loss of lives and property and displacement of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian […]
“We agree that we are for the unity and integrity of Syrian territory and reject any division projects that threaten the country’s unity,” the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, said in a written statement to AFP. He spoke following a meeting he described as “positive” between Kurdish leaders and the […]
A Palestinian official close to the negotiations said that mediators had narrowed gaps in most of the agreement’s clauses. He said Israel had introduced conditions that Hamas rejected but would not elaborate. On Tuesday, sources close to the talks in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, said an agreement could be signed in the coming days on […]
Assad fled Syria just over a week ago following a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), more than 13 years after his crackdown on democracy protests precipitated one of the deadliest wars of the century. However, the United Nations’ special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, said on Tuesday “There have been […]
