After two months of relative calm, Gazans were again fleeing for their lives after Israel effectively abandoned a ceasefire, launching a new all-out air and ground campaign against Gaza’s dominant Palestinian group Hamas. Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets on residential neighborhoods, ordering people out of Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun towns in the north, the Shejaia […]
Foreign Office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan, at his weekly press briefing, stated that “Pakistan strongly calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities in West Bank, and Gaza; protection of civilians; and unrestricted access to humanitarian aid and assistance. We also call on the international community to increase its efforts to end Israel’s genocidal campaign against […]
The Israeli military, which has resumed its bombardments in Gaza and issued new orders for residents to evacuate combat zones, denied in a statement that it had struck a U.N. compound in Deir al-Balah. Bulgarian Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement that one of its citizens working for the United Nations died in the Gaza […]
The first phase of the deal expired at the beginning of March with no agreement on subsequent stages that should secure a lasting end to the war that erupted with Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. There are still differences over how to proceed, with Hamas calling for immediate negotiations on the next phase […]
The decision by the 57-member grouping came at an emergency meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, three days after the Arab League ratified the plan at a summit in Cairo. The Egyptian-crafted alternative to Trump’s widely condemned takeover proposes to rebuild the Gaza Strip under the future administration of the Palestinian Authority. “The emergency ministerial meeting […]
Foreign Office spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan said at a weekly press briefing “Any electoral exercise, under the Indian Constitution, cannot serve as a substitute to grant of right to self-determination. Similarly, the decades-old grievances of the Kashmiri people cannot be meaningfully addressed through economic activity down the barrel of a gun,” He said that the […]
The first phase of a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas that began in January ended over the weekend with no agreement on what would happen next. Hamas says an agreed second phase must now begin, leading to a permanent Israeli withdrawal and an end to the war. Israel has instead offered a […]
The ceasefire took effect on January 19 after more than 15 months of war sparked by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, the deadliest in the country’s history. Over several weeks, Gaza militants freed 25 living hostages and returned the bodies of eight others to Israel, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held […]
A three-phase ceasefire in Gaza went into effect on January 19 and has led to the handover of 33 Israeli hostages held in Gaza and some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees held by Israel. An initial six-week first phase of that ceasefire is due to expire in two days. Israel said on Thursday it was […]
Prime Minister’s office confirmed Israel had received the coffins of “four fallen hostages”, and a process to formally identify them had started. In the West Bank and Gaza, AFP journalists saw hundreds of Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel arrive on buses accompanied by Red Cross vehicles. More than 600 were due to be released in […]
