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Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal, mediators announced Wednesday (January 15, 2025), pausing a devastating 15-month war in the Gaza Strip and raising the possibility of winding down the the deadliest and most destructive fighting between the bitter enemies. The deal, coming after weeks of painstaking negotiations in the Qatari capital, promises the…
Families and supporters of Israeli hostages kidnapped during the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, gather to demand a deal that will bring back all the hostages held in Gaza, on the day of a meeting between hostage representatives and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, on January 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters…
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Hamas has accepted a draft agreement for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the release of dozens of hostages, two officials involved in the talks said on Tuesday (January 14, 2025). Mediator Qatar said the negotiations were at the “closest point” yet to sealing a deal. Also read | Is Israel’s war in Gaza…
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Washington: Outgoing President Joe Biden sought to burnish his foreign policy record on Monday and said U.S. adversaries are weaker than when he took office four years ago despite global crises that remain unresolved. A week before handing over to President-elect Donald Trump, Biden in a rare State Department speech touted his administration’s backing for…
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US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said there’s a “distinct possibility” that Israel and Hamas will be able to reach a ceasefire deal before President Joe Biden leaves office in a week. “The pressure is building for Hamas to come to yes,” Sullivan said in an interview at Bloomberg’s Washington bureau on Monday. “It’s there…
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U.S. and Arab mediators made significant progress overnight toward brokering a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and the release of scores of hostages held in the Gaza Strip but a deal hasn’t been reached yet, officials said Monday (January 13, 2025). Three officials acknowledged that progress has been made and said the coming days would…
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Issues in the talks have included which hostages would be released in the first part of a phased ceasefire deal, which Palestinian prisoners would be released and the extent of any Israeli troop withdrawal from population centers in Gaza. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden spoke…
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David Shulman, the Israeli Indologist, poet and peace activist, says the West Bank has witnessed enhanced settler violence ever since the latest war between Israel and Hamas broke out. Today’s Israel looks like the South Africa at the height of apartheid, “just a few years before the system collapsed,” he says, adding that the West…
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A view of a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip on Friday, January 9, 2025. File | Photo Credit: AP The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Saturday (January 11, 2025) that 32 people were killed in the Palestinian territory over the past 48 hours, taking the overall death toll…
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Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from Sderot, southern Israel, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces pounded the Palestinian territory on Thursday (January 9, 2025), killing at least 12 people including three girls, 15 months into the war. The latest…
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