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Thousands in Tel Aviv demand release of hostages held in Gaza

Since Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza, more than 100 hostages were released during a weeklong ceasefire in November last year. But efforts to strike a new truce deal which would include an exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners have so far stalled.

15/06/2024

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Hamas responds to Gaza ceasefire plan with 'remarks'

Hamas responded to a US-backed ceasefire proposal with remarks, currently under review by the US, according to Qatari and Egyptian mediators.

11/06/2024

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Israeli centrist Benny Gantz resigns from Netanyahu's war cabinet

Centrist politician Benny Gantz resigns from Israel's war cabinet, leaving Netanyahu more reliant on far-right allies.

09/06/2024

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Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood says BDS criticism is "unjustifiable"

The pro-Palestinian BDS movement has criticised the Radiohead guitarist for his collaboration with Israeli musician of Kuwait origin Dudu Tassa.

05/06/2024

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Israel steps up its offensive in Gaza amid ongoing ceasefire efforts

Doctors Without Borders says at least 70 bodies and 300 wounded people, mostly women and children, have been brought to a hospital in central Gaza since Tuesday.

05/06/2024

Israel

Four more Israeli hostages declared dead

From Blinken's latest phone call with Israeli officials to the number of displaced people from Rafah surpassing one million, these are the latest developments from the Israel-Hamas war this Monday.

03/06/2024

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Sirens blare in Tel Aviv as Hamas fires rockets

Palestinian militants have fired projectiles at Israeli communities around Gaza for more than seven months, but have not fired longer-range rockets in months.

26/05/2024

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Bodies of three hostages recovered from Gaza

The bodies of three more hostages killed on October 7 were recovered overnight from Gaza, the Israeli army said on Friday.

24/05/2024

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Israeli minister orders return of seized AP equipment

Israeli communications minister reverses seizure of AP equipment amid criticism, restoring live video access to Gaza.

21/05/2024

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Israel PM slams arrest warrant as Palestinians killed in West Bank

Benjamin Netanyahu has blasted the International Criminal Court's decision to seek an arrest warrant for him and Hamas leaders, while Israeli forces have shot dead at least seven in the occupied West Bank.

21/05/2024

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Israeli minister Gantz says he will quit if his plan is not adopted

Centrist member of Israel's three-member war cabinet, Benny Ganz, threatened to resign if the government does not adopt his six-point plan for the Gaza operation by 8 June.

18/05/2024

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Bodies of three hostages recovered from Gaza Strip, says IDF

The military said the bodies were found overnight, without elaborating, and did not give immediate details on where they were located.

17/05/2024

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Israel carried out at least eight strikes on aid groups, report says

Israel has carried out at least eight strikes on humanitarian convoys and their facilities in Gaza since the beginning of the war against Hamas, according to a report by Human Rights Watch.

14/05/2024

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Antony Blinken stuns with public criticism of Israeli conduct in Gaza

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday delivered some of the Biden administration’s strongest public criticism yet of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, saying Israeli tactics have meant “a horrible loss of life of innocent civilians”.

13/05/2024

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Israeli police break up anti-government protest in Tel Aviv

The police pushed an anti-government demonstration away from a main traffic junction in the city using water canon and arresting some of the protestors.

12/05/2024

Israel

Euroviews. Axing the Oslo Accords killed the narrative, not just the process

Negating the Oslo peace process also rendered the “two peoples” narrative false. Observers were left with the conclusion that if the land “from the river and the sea” did not belong to two peoples, it belonged to one nation, Dr Shlomo Fischer writes.

09/05/2024

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Israel commits to operation against Hamas in southern Gaza

Hamas spokesman, Osama Hamdan, accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of disrupting the efforts of mediators after Israel rejected the ceasefire proposal which Hamas accepted on Monday.

07/05/2024

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Israel to shut down Al Jazeera offices amid rising tensions

The decision to ban the Qatar-based newsgroup marks an escalation in the long-running feud between Israel and Al Jazeera.

05/05/2024

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Israelis rally to demand ceasefire and Netanyahu's resignation

"We hope the world hears us and knows that the people of Israel are not the government of Israel," said one protester.

05/05/2024

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Israel re-opens Erez crossing to allow more aid into Gaza

The World Food Programme estimates around 1.1 million people across Gaza, around half of the population, are "struggling with catastrophic hunger and starvation".

02/05/2024

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Euroviews. This is who lit the match in the Middle East — and who poured the fuel

Through no fault of their own, Saudi Arabia and Israel find themselves at the nexus of the main geo-political rivalry of the 21st century, Terry Newman writes.

30/04/2024

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US steps up pressure for Gaza ceasefire deal

Blinken was speaking in Saudi Arabia ahead of a visit to Israel this week, in what will be his seventh trip to the Middle East since the Israel-Hamas war started in October.

30/04/2024

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War in Gaza: 22 people killed in Israeli airstrikes in Rafah

The latest developments from the Israel- Hamas war.

29/04/2024

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Thousands of Jewish worshippers attend priestly blessing ceremony

Jewish worshippers gathered at Jerusalem's Western Wall for the traditional priestly blessing, a ceremony conducted twice a year during Passover and Sukkot.

25/04/2024

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Israeli military concludes raid on Nur al-Shams refugee camp

Israeli forces have concluded a two-day operation in the Nur al-Shams refugee camp near Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank

21/04/2024

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Base of Iraqi military base struck, but by whom?

One member of the anti-American Shiite militia group was killed in the attack and eight injured. It blames the US but Washington denies carrying it out.

20/04/2024