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Washington DC: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (local time) doubled down on his threat of the United States “owning” the Gaza Strip by displacing the 2.2 million Palestinians living in the enclave to neighbouring countries as he met Jordan King Abdullah II– now of America’s closest Middle East allies. “We’re going to have Gaza….
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday threatened to withdraw from the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and resume its fight against Hamas if the militant group does not go ahead with the next…
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Palestinian Hamas militants release Keith Siegel, a hostage held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, on February 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Hamas has handed American-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel, 65, over to the Red…
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Jerusalem: Israel is set to release 183 prisoners on Saturday in the fourth hostage-prisoner exchange under the Gaza ceasefire deal, a Palestinian advocacy group said, more than doubling the previous reported figure. “The updated number of prisoners to be released tomorrow is 183,” said Palestinian Prisoners’ Club spokeswoman Amani Sarahneh on Friday, after previously announcing…
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Israel began releasing 110 Palestinian prisoners on Thursday (January 30, 2025) after eight hostages in the Gaza Strip were freed by militants earlier in the day in a sometimes chaotic process that briefly called the exchange into question and underscored the fragility of a ceasefire that began this month. The prisoners released include 30 serving…
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Ramallah: A Palestinian prisoners advocacy group said Israeli authorities would release 110 prisoners, including 30 minors, on Thursday as part of an exchange under a Gaza ceasefire deal agreed with Hamas. “Tomorrow, 110 Palestinian prisoners are to be released,” the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said in a statement, referring to the third exchange of hostages and…
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Ramallah: The Palestinian Red Crescent said an Israeli drone strike in a village in the occupied West Bank killed at least seven people on Wednesday, while the military said it had struck an “armed cell”. “An Israeli strike in the village of Tamun in the northern West Bank killed seven people,” the group said in…
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Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages, kidnapped during the deadly October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, hold pictures of hostages and banners as they protest demanding the release of all hostages in Tel Aviv, Israel January 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel will continue to follow the Gaza peace deal until all the hostages…
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Palestinian Territories: Masses of displaced Palestinians streamed into the north of war-ravaged Gaza on Monday after Israel and Hamas reached a deal for the release of another six hostages. Also on Monday, the Israeli government said eight of the hostages held in Gaza who were due for release in the truce’s first phase are dead….
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Jerusalem: Masses of Palestinians, who were displaced by months of war, began moving towards the north of the Gaza Strip on Monday after Israel and Hamas said they had reached a deal for the release of another six hostages. The breakthrough preserves a fragile truce deal aimed at ending the more than 15-month conflict, which…
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