Israel said it in turn freed 39 Palestinian prisoners. Palestinian Territories: Hamas fighters were set Sunday to release a third group of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a day after freeing captives including a young woman snatched from a desert rave. In a sign of the fragility of the exchanges, the latest swap … Read more
Relatives of some of the 240 people held by Hamas in Gaza urged far-right Israeli lawmakers on Monday not to pursue proposed capital punishment for captured Hamas terrorists, saying that even talk of doing so might endanger the hostages. A number of suspected gunmen were detained after members of the armed Islamist faction breached the … Read more
All those injured were members of security services, according to police. Jerusalem: Three gunmen attacked a checkpoint near Jerusalem on Thursday, Israeli police said, wounding several people before the attackers were “neutralised”. Four people suffered gunshot wounds, including one who was critically injured, said the emergency medical service Magen David Adom in a statement, with … Read more
Hammam Alloh, a Palestinian nephrologist at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, reported independent news portal Democracy Now. In his last interview before his death, Alloh vehemently opposed Israel’s directives to move south and spoke about his duty as a doctor towards his patients. When asked why he did not move to … Read more
Israel’s counteroffensive in Gaza has killed more than 11,000 people, according to Palestinian figures. Jerusalem: The executive director of Israeli media advocacy group HonestReporting said on Friday he accepted as “adequate” the denials by four media organisations that they had no previous knowledge of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, adding he was “so … Read more
Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel does not “seek to govern Gaza.” (File) Palestinian Territories: Israel has agreed pauses in its offensive in northern Gaza that will allow some civilians to flee heavy fighting, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out any broader ceasefire as a “surrender” to Hamas. US President Joe Biden welcomed the pauses, which … Read more
The Hamas-run health ministry said Wednesday 10,569 people have been killed in Israeli attacks. (File) Palestinian Territories: Gaza City’s suburbs began to appear after about 30 minutes of navigating broken roads. We were approaching the focal point of the fight between Israel and Hamas in the territory. On Wednesday, AFP was embedded with Israeli soldiers, … Read more
Khan Yunis, Palestinian Territories: Layan al-Baz cries in agony when the effect fades of the painkillers she receives after her legs were amputated — the result of a strike on Gaza as Israel fights Hamas. “I don’t want a false leg,” the 13-year-old Palestinian tells AFP in Khan Yunis’s Nasser hospital, in the southern Gaza Strip, … Read more
Israel is reportedly looking to hire one lakh workers from India in a bid to replace Palestinians who were fired from jobs after Gaza-based terrorist organisation Hamas attacked the Jewish nation on October 7. According to a Voice of America (VOA) News report, Israel’s construction sector confirmed it had asked its government to allow companies … Read more
Gaza death number has soared above 10,000 Jerusalem: Israel’s deadliest ever war in Gaza, sparked by the October 7 Hamas attacks, entered its second month Tuesday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed there would be no ceasefire until the group releases its 240 hostages. Netanyahu also said Israel would assume “overall security” in Gaza after the war … Read more