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Joe Biden Again Warns Benjamin Netanyahu As Israel Starts Gaza’s Rafah Operation

May 6, 2024 admin

Joe Biden, seeking to push a Gaza ceasefire, on Monday warned Benjamin Netanyahu against invading Rafah. Washington: US President Joe Biden, seeking to push a Gaza ceasefire, on Monday warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against invading Rafah as Israel defiantly issued evacuation orders and carried out intense air strikes on the crowded Gaza city. The…

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Hamas Agreed To Latest Israeli Proposal, Says Official Briefed On Talks

May 6, 2024 admin

Hamas agreed to the latest proposal that Israel had made on April 27. Doha: Hamas agreed to the latest proposal that Israel had made on April 27 and there were no major changes since then, an official briefed on the ceasefire talks said, adding the Qatari mediators had spoken to Hamas about this on Sunday…

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Israel Hamas war: Hamas announces it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal

May 6, 2024 admin

Hamas announced on May 6 it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari proposal for a ceasefire to halt the seven-month-long war with Israel in Gaza, hours after Israel ordered about 100,000 Palestinians to begin evacuating from the southern city of Rafah, signalling that a long-promised ground invasion there could be imminent. There was no immediate comment from…

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Hamas Says It Accepts Gaza Truce Proposal Of Egypt, Qatar

May 6, 2024 admin

There were no immediate details over what the agreement entailed (File) Gaza: Hamas said on Monday that it had accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal from Egypt and Qatar. The Islamist faction said in a statement that its chief, Ismail Haniyeh, had informed Qatar’s prime minister and Egypt’s intelligence chief of its acceptance of their proposal….

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Israeli army tells Palestinians to temporarily evacuate parts of Rafah ahead of an expected assault

May 6, 2024 admin

Displaced Palestinians, who fled their houses due to Israeli strikes, shelter at a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s armed forces have begun evacuating Palestinian civilians from Rafah ahead of a…

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Benjamin Netanyahu Rejects Gaza Truce Talks, Shuts Down Al Jazeera’s Israel Office

May 6, 2024 admin

Netanyahu’s remarks came during a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Jerusalem New Delhi: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shut down talks of ceasefire negotiations, citing an unwillingness to comply with Hamas’s conditions for ending the conflict in Gaza. Here are 10 points on this big story: Despite the absence of an Israeli delegation in…

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Israeli Authorities Raid Al Jazeera Office After Shutdown Order Over Israel-Hamas War In Gaza

May 5, 2024 admin

Al Jazeera said the move was a “criminal action” (File photo) Jerusalem: Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station’s local operations on Sunday, an Israeli official and an Al Jazeera source told Reuters. Video circulated online showed…

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Benjamin Netanyahu To World Leaders

May 5, 2024 admin

Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday denounced a “volcano of anti-Semitism” and international criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza, insisting that no pressure would stop it from defending itself. “If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone,” Netanyahu said. Speaking…

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3 Israeli Army Soldiers Killed In Hamas’ Gaza Crossing Rocket Attack

May 5, 2024 admin

The soldiers were hit while guarding heavy machinery, tanks and bulldozers Jerusalem: Israel’s military said a barrage of rockets fired earlier Sunday from the besieged Gaza Strip towards the Kerem Shalom border crossing had killed three soldiers and wounded a dozen others. Three of the 12 wounded were in serious condition, the military told AFP….

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UN Agency Chief Stopped From Entering Gaza Again

May 5, 2024 admin

Philippe Lazzarini has been to Gaza four times since the war broke out including on March 17. (File) Jerusalem: The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said Sunday that Israeli authorities had barred him from entering Gaza for a second time since the Israel-Hamas war started on October 7. “Just this week,…

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