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Progress Made At Latest Round Of Gaza Truce Talks In Cairo, Says US

August 24, 2024 admin

Fighting raged on Friday, with witnesses reporting combat in northern, central and southern Gaza (file). Palestinian Territories: The United States said Friday that progress had been made at the latest round of Gaza truce talks after the presence of Israeli troops on the Egyptian border emerged as a major sticking point. The White House said…

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Antony Blinken Heads To Egypt After Israel To Push For Gaza Ceasefire

August 20, 2024 admin

Antony Blinken said he had a very constructive meeting with the Israel PM on Monday. Israel: Top US diplomat Antony Blinken was due to travel to Egypt on Tuesday for talks on a Gaza ceasefire after saying Israel had accepted a US “bridging proposal” for a deal and urging Hamas to do the same. Blinken,…

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Far From Over But Joe Biden Has High Hopes For Gaza Ceasefire

August 17, 2024 admin

Joe Biden told reporters that he was optimistic about prospects for a Gaza ceasefire (file). Washington: US President Joe Biden said on Friday that no party in the Middle East should undermine efforts to reach a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal that he claimed was now in sight, but he warned that it was…

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Will Go To Gaza Even If It Would “Cost My Life”, Says Palestine President

August 15, 2024 admin

“There cannot be a Palestinian state without Gaza,” Mahmud Abbas said (File) Ankara: Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas told a special session of the Turkish parliament on Thursday that he would travel to Gaza. He was speaking as health ministry officials in the Hamas-run territory said the death count from Israel’s assault there had passed…

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Gazans flee as Israel Army pushes into Khan Younis

August 11, 2024 admin

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip flee from Hamad City, following the evacuation order by the Israeli army to leave parts of the southern area of Khan Younis, Sunday (August 11, 2024) | Photo Credit: AP Hundreds of Gazans fled the northern neighbourhoods of Khan Yunis on Sunday…

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Airstrike On Gaza School Kills 100, Israel Says It Was Hamas Command Centre

August 10, 2024 admin

Israel has vowed to destroy the Palestinian group in retaliation for its October attack. Gaza’s civil defence agency said Saturday an Israeli strike hit a school in Gaza City, killing 90-100 people, while the Israeli military said it had struck a Hamas command centre. “Forty martyrs and dozens wounded after the Israeli bombing of the…

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Gazans flee destroyed Khan Yunis as new Israel operation begins

August 9, 2024 admin

By dusk, the streets of Khan Yunis stood completely deserted and eerily quiet. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Crowds fleeing Khan Yunis after an Israeli evacuation order gave way to empty streets on Friday as Palestinian residents tried to escape a new Israeli military operation in Gaza’s main southern area. “They threw leaflets at us,…

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The Struggle To Keep Track Of Gaza Deaths

August 7, 2024 admin

Israel-Gaza war has been going on since October 7, 2023 (File) With much of Gaza reduced to rubble by 10 months of war, counting the dead has become a challenge for the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry, as the death count nears 40,000. Israel has repeatedly questioned the credibility of the daily figures put out by…

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US Not Involved In Assassination Of Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh: Antony Blinken

July 31, 2024 admin

Hamas has vowed the “cowardly” killing of their veteran leader “will not go unanswered”. (File) Singapore: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the United States was “not aware of or involved in” the killing of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran. “I can’t tell you what this means. I can tell…

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Australia, New Zealand, Canada call for ICJ response from Israel, Gaza ceasefire

July 26, 2024 admin

Israeli military vehicles manoeuvre near the Israel-Gaza border, amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Israel, on July 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Australia, New Zealand and Canada on Friday called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and asked Israel to respond to a United Nations court which last week ruled its occupation…

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