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A drone view of people gathering during the arrival of the freed Palestinian prisoners, after they were released from an Israeli jail as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, January 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Hamas and Israel…
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Displaced Palestinians arrive in the northern Gaza Strip, following Israel’s decision to allow thousands of them to go back for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas on Monday, January 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP “Israel killed two Palestinians in the northern West Bank overnight and into Wednesday…
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Palestinians attend Friday prayers inside a mosque destroyed by the Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on January 24, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump said Saturday (January 25, 2025) he’d like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations…
President Donald Trump gestures as he boards Air Force One. File. | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump has ended his predecessor’s hold on sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, lifting a pressure point that had been meant to reduce civilian casualties during the U.S. ally’s war with Hamas in Gaza that is now halted by…
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The first three hostages were released from Gaza and the first Palestinian prisoners were freed from Israeli custody as the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold following 15 months of war, with mixed emotions and more difficult steps ahead over the next six weeks. Palestinians across Gaza began making their way home, and…
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed a security cabinet meeting to vote on a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal that should take effect ton January 19, in Jerusalem on January 17, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday (January 18, 2025) that Israel reserves the right to resume fighting in Gaza…
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Demonstrators take part in a rally in support of the recent ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that is set to take effect on Sunday, outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, on January 17, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal is expected to begin as originally scheduled on Sunday…
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If the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal goes according to the current draft, then fighting will stop in Gaza for 42 days, and dozens of Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners will be freed. In this first phase Israeli troops will pull back to the edges of Gaza, and many Palestinians will be able to return…
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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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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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