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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday (October 5, 2026) called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza ahead of the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. “It is time for the ceasefire to become permanent. It is time to…
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Gaza’s Health Ministry on September 26, 2026, said the Palestinian death toll had risen to 74,016, with 1,75,068 people wounded. File | Photo Credit: AP The Palestinian death toll from the nearly three-year Israel-Hamas war has crossed 74,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. While a ceasefire that took effect on October 10 has halted the…
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Palestinians gather around a blacksmith shop in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood after it was hit by an Israeli military strike on July 12, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Israeli fire in Gaza on Sunday (July 12, 2026) killed at least five Palestinians, including a 9-year-old girl, and wounded others, according to local health officials. A…
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A view of the damaged apartment in a residential building seen after an overnight Israeli strike in Gaza city, on Thursday (June 4, 2026). | Photo Credit: AP At least nine Palestinians were killed in overnight strikes in Gaza, according to local hospitals, even as much of the world’s attention was focussed on the fighting…
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The Israeli combat soldier saw his teammates yelling in celebration, congratulating one another. They had just struck a vehicle of Palestinians driving near the Israeli-controlled part of the Gaza Strip, killing everyone inside. The reservist said scenes like this had become common after a fragile ceasefire took effect in October. In the weeks he was…
Nickolay Mladenov, the Gaza high representative of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Gaza high representative of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace warned Thursday (May 21, 2026) that the status quo in the divided and devastated territory — including an imperfect ceasefire — risks becoming “permanent” reality….
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Top U.S. envoys met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday (January 24, 2026) urging his government to move into the second phase of the ceasefire in Gaza. Mr. Netanyahu met with U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and Middle East adviser, according to the Prime Minister’s office,…
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U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, File | Photo Credit: Reuters The United States says it’s moving into the next phase of a Gaza ceasefire plan involving disarming Hamas, rebuilding and daily governance. Trump envoy Steve Witkoff said in a post on X that the ceasefire deal was entering a phase focused on demilitarizing Gaza, establishing…
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Palestinians watch youths riding their motorcycles on sand dunes in the Al-Zahra area, in the central Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Reuters on Saturday (December 6, 2025) that a credible Palestinian civil administration and a vetted, trained police force should be in place to…
Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Saturday (December 6, 2025) said the Gaza ceasefire has reached a “critical moment” as its first phase winds down, with the remains of just one Israeli hostage still held by militants in Gaza. PM Sheikh Mohammed told an international conference in Doha that international mediators,…
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