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U.S. President Donald Trump warned Hamas on Monday (October 20, 2025) it would be “eradicated” if it breaches the Gaza deal with Israel, but said he would give the Palestinian militant group a chance to honour the truce. U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance headed to Israel shortly after Mr. Trump’s comments, joining two top U.S. envoys…
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians headed back to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip on Friday (October 10, 2025) as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire came into effect in a deal that raised hopes for ending the Israel-Hamas war. All the remaining hostages were set to be released within days. Questions remain over who will govern Gaza…
Palestinians, who were displaced to the southern part of Gaza at Israel’s order during the war, walk along a road past destroyed buildings as they attempt to return to the north after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went into effect, in the central Gaza Strip, October 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters…
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A student holds a section of a banner listing children who, according to pro-Palestinian protesters on the march, have been killed in Gaza by Israel over the past two years, during an inter-university march in support of Palestinians, on the second anniversary of the deadly October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas from Gaza,…
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A rift within Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition is emerging as a flashpoint in efforts to end the war in Gaza, threatening to derail a U.S. push to reshape the political landscape of the Middle East. Under pressure from Donald Trump to end the two-year-old war, Mr. Netanyahu is facing a backlash from…
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Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 57 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, health officials said Thursday (October 2, 2025), as Hamas was still considering its response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal for ending the nearly two-year war. The plan requires Hamas to return all 48 hostages — about 20 of them thought by…
An Israeli tank manoeuvres in Gaza, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, September 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Over 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Sunday (September 28, 2025). The Ministry said in its daily report the death toll has climbed to 66,005, with…
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United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme were reimposed on Sunday (September 28, 2025) putting Tehran under new pressure as tensions remain high in the wider Mideast over the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. At the U.N. General Assembly this week in New York, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi tried…
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Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 44 people across Gaza, health officials said on Saturday,(September 27, 2025) as international pressure grows for a ceasefire but Israel’s leader remains defiant about continuing the war. Among the dead were nine from the same family in a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to staff at…
Smoke rises from an Israeli strike, as displaced Palestinians, fleeing northern Gaza due to an Israeli military operation, move southward after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate to the south, in the central Gaza Strip on September 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Palestinian families streamed out of Gaza City on Sunday…
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