United Nations representatives will start the five days of sittings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague at 10:00 am (0800 GMT), followed by a Palestinian submission. Another 38 countries will then address the 15-judge panel, including the United States, China, France, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. The League of Arab States, the Organisation […]
In a televised speech, Khalil Al-Hayya, the group’s Gaza chief who leads its negotiating team, said the group would no longer agree to interim deals, adopting a position that Israel is unlikely to accept and potentially further delaying an end to the devastating attacks that restarted in recent weeks. Instead, Hayya said Hamas was ready […]
Citing sources, Al Qahera said mediators awaited Hamas’s response. Hamas said in a statement later in the day that it was studying the proposal and that it will submit its response “as soon as possible”. The militant group reiterated its core demand that a ceasefire deal must end the war in Gaza and achieve a […]
In a statement uploaded on the Athens Indymedia website on Sunday, the Revolutionary Class Self-Defense group said it carried out the April 11 explosion at railway operator Hellenic Train in response to a 2023 train crash that killed 57 people. The explosion caused minor damage and no injuries. Police had evacuated the area after two […]
Basel Adra, who worked with Ballal on the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land”, posted a photo of Ballal on X after his release with blood stains on his shirt. “After I won the Oscar, I did not expect to be exposed to such attacks,” Ballal said in a video by AFPTV. “It was a very […]
The proposal, made last week, follows an escalation in violence after Israel resumed air and ground operations against Hamas on March 18, ending two months of relative calm after 15 months of war. Gaza health officials said Israeli airstrikes and shelling have killed nearly 700 Palestinians since then, including at least 400 women and children. […]
According to the United Nations, some 40,000 residents have been displaced since January 21, when the Israeli army launched an operation targeting Palestinian armed groups in the north of the territory. The West Bank, occupied by Israel since 1967, is home to about three million Palestinians as well as nearly 500,000 Israelis living in settlements […]
The three were led onto a stage with fighters armed with automatic rifles standing on each side of them at the site in Khan Younis, live footage showed. The three are being returned in exchange for 369 Palestinian prisoners and detainees, a swap which eases fears that the agreement could collapse before the end of […]
Trump cautioned that Israel might want to override him on the issue and said he might speak to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But in a wide-ranging session with reporters in the Oval Office, Trump expressed frustration with the condition of the last group of hostages freed by Hamas and by the announcement by the […]
“Any resettlement plans, the idea that the citizens of Gaza will be expelled from there to Egypt or Jordan, is unacceptable,” Scholz said, referring at a campaign event in Berlin to Trump’s comments. He reiterated his support for a two-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians live peacefully side by side, adding that it must be […]
