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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…
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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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…
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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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…
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…
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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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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Earlier Benjamin Netanyahu had rejected Hamas’s demand to end the war. (File) Doha: Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday accused Israel’s prime minister of sabotaging efforts by mediators involved in ongoing talks aimed at a truce and hostage exchange in Gaza. Qatar-based Haniyeh said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to “invent constant justifications for…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. File. | Photo Credit: AP Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hardened his rejection of Hamas demands for an end to the Gaza war in exchange for the freeing of hostages, saying on May 5 that would keep the Palestinian Islamist group in power and pose a threat to Israel. Mr. Netanyahu…
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