Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has added several new demands amid negotiations for the second of the Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, Israel’s Channel 13 has reported. The report said Netanyahu is demanding Hamas leadership be exiled, for Gaza to be demilitarized, and for Israel to continue maintaining “security control” of the Strip, which would mean
Abdul Latif al-Qanoua, Hamas’s spokesperson, said that Hamas does not oppose the establishment of a committee to oversee Gaza’s administration. The Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement is willing to step aside from governing the war-torn Gaza Strip, provided that a technocratic government is formed to manage the coastal enclave’s affairs, according to an official at the movement. Speaking to The
‘If there were more Israels in the Middle East, then the world would be a safer and a better place,” Marco Rubio says at joint press conference with Israeli Premier Netanyahu After US President Donald Trump’s disputable proposal for a Gaza “takeover,” which has already been rejected by major Western powers, Arab nations, and other
The Israeli military launched a wide-scale operation last month against militants in several cities in the West Bank. Now, roughly 40,000 Palestinians have fled their homes — the highest since Israel occupied the territory nearly six decades ago, according to researchers. A weekslong Israeli military operation across several West Bank cities has displaced roughly 40,000
US secretary of state endorses Israel’s war aims in the Gaza Strip during meeting with Israeli PM Netanyahu. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has fully endorsed Israel’s war aims in the Gaza Strip, saying Hamas “must be eradicated” and throwing the future of the shaky ceasefire into further doubt. Rubio met with Israeli Prime
The Israeli occupation government has advanced two bills that would curb activities aimed at documenting human rights violations and war crimes committed by Israel. The Ministerial Committee on Legislation yesterday approved the first bill which prevents sharing information with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague and punishes violators with up to five years
Far-right Israeli minister says displacement could start slow but will accelerate with time Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said US President Donald Trump’s plan to forcibly transfer Palestinians from Gaza could start within weeks. Speaking at a meeting with journalists on Saturday, the far-right minister confirmed that discussions with US teams have begun to implement the mass displacement plan.
Israeli forces strapped explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian who used a walking stick and forced him to inspect areas used by Hamas before killing him and his wife Israeli forces strapped explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian man in Gaza and forced him to act as a human shield before killing him and
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to “open the gates of hell” in Gaza if Hamas does not return all hostages, pointing to a joint US-Israeli strategy to take on the Palestinian militants. “We have a common strategy, and we can’t always share the details of this strategy with the public, including when
Trump said regarding the Gaza plan that it was “up to Israel” to decide what to do next “in consultation with me.” US President Donald Trump presented the only plan for the Gaza issue that can work, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations on Sunday. Trump’s “bold new vision” was