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Winter rain lashed the Gaza Strip over the weekend, flooding camps with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians displaced by two years of war attempted to stay dry in tents frayed by months of use. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled for an expected meeting on Monday (December 29, 2025) with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida…
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Mourners carry bodies during the funeral of Hamas’s senior commander Raed Saed and his aides, who were killed in an Israeli strike a day earlier, in Gaza City, December 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Hamas’ chief negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya said on Sunday (December 14, 2025) that a targeted assassination by Israel on Saturday (December…
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Israeli settlers holding national flags attend a rally near the Kharsina settlement to commemorate a settler killed in a Palestinian attack years ago. | Photo Credit: AFP Israel said on Thursday (December 12, 2025) that Hamas “will be disarmed” as part of the U.S.-sponsored peace plan for Gaza, after a top leader from the Islamist…
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With the remains of one hostage still in Gaza, the first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas is nearly complete, after a two-month process plagued by delays and finger-pointing. Now, the key players — including Israel, the Palestinian militant Hamas group, the United States and a diverse list of…
Hostage Sudthisak Rinthalak, an agricultural worker from Thailand who was abducted and brought to Gaza in the Hamas attack. File | Photo Credit: AP The remains that militants in Gaza handed to Israel as part of the first phase of the ceasefire deal were those of a Thai agricultural worker, Israeli and Thai officials said…
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Red Cross personnel, escorted by Hamas militants, wait to head towards an area within the so-called “yellow line” to which Israeli troops withdrew under the ceasefire, as Hamas says it continues to search for the bodies of deceased hostages seized during the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, in Gaza City, on November 12, 2025….
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A Palestinian boy inspects the site of Saturday’s Israeli strike in the Central Gaza Strip, on November 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Hamas delegation was in Cairo on Sunday (November 23, 2025) to meet with Gaza war mediators, an Egyptian security source and a Hamas source said, as both Israel and the Palestinian…
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Indonesia’s biggest Islamic organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama, has asked its chief to resign for inviting a U.S. scholar known for his support of Israel during the Gaza war to an internal event in August, according to meeting minutes reviewed by Reuters. The leadership of NU, which is also the world’s biggest Islamic organisation with around 100…
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A U.S. proposal to provide a United Nations mandate for an international stabilization force in Gaza is facing opposition from Russia, China and some Arab countries, which have expressed unease about a yet-to-be established board that would temporarily govern the territory and the lack of any transitional role for the Palestinian Authority. The Chinese and…
Palestinians stand in a heavily damaged building surrounded by rubble, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, on November 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters An Israeli airstrike killed a Palestinian man in the Gaza Strip on Sunday (November 2, 2025), health authorities said, as Israel and Hamas traded blame for daily…
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