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A body is carried to the area outside the hospital after an Israeli army strike in the Muwasi area of Khan Younis in the central Gaza Strip on January 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP More than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Thursday (January 9, 2025), as…
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A Hamas official said on Sunday (January 5, 2025) the group was ready to free 34 hostages in the “first phase” of a potential deal with Israel, after Israel said indirect talks on a truce and hostage release agreement had resumed in Qatar. Mediators Qatar, Egypt, and the United States have tried for months to…
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Bethlehem, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian security forces deployed around the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank holy city of Bethlehem on Tuesday, as the faithful prepared for another solemn Christmas overshadowed by the war in Gaza. An unusual calm enveloped Manger Square, the heart of the Palestinian city dominated by the revered church that…
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Children look on, as Palestinians inspect the damage at a tent camp sheltering displaced people, following an Israeli strike, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, December 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters “Israeli troops killed at least 22 Palestinians, most of them in the northern Gaza Strip, on Sunday…
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A member of the Palestinian security forces looks out from a vehicle as they patrol amid clashes with militants at the camp, in Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Saturday (December 14, 2024). | Photo Credit: Reuters “At least one person was killed as Palestinian security forces clashed with Palestinian militants and set up…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday (December 9, 2024) he would not stop the war in Gaza “now”, with renewed efforts towards a ceasefire underway. Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem 14 months into the war against Hamas Palestinian militants, he said “if…
Donald Trump’s re-election as the US president last week comes at a time of extreme volatility in the Middle East. The president-elect has promised to end all wars. In his usual impulsive and unpredictable manner, he has pledged to resolve the Ukraine war within 24 hours of taking office and help Israel finish its Gaza…
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Displaced Palestinians make their way after fleeing the northern part of Gaza amid an Israeli military operation, in Gaza City, on November 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli authorities have caused a forced displacement of Palestinian people in Gaza to an extent that constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said…
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A man stares at the still smoking destruction at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighbourhood in Baalbeck in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa valley on November 10, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Israeli strikes killed dozens of people on Sunday (November 10, 2024) in Lebanon and the northern Gaza Strip, where the military…
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Jerusalem: More than a year into the Gaza war, the Israeli army’s reservists are exhausted and it is struggling to recruit soldiers just as it opens a new front in Lebanon. Some 300,000 reservists have been called up since the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, according to the army, 18 percent of them men…
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