Israel has released 90 Palestinian prisoners in the first phase of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas, the Israeli prison service has confirmed. The released prisoners, predominantly women and children, were greeted with hugs and cheers upon their return to the occupied West Bank.
A man was seriously injured in a knife attack in central Tel Aviv on Saturday, police said. The Magen David Adom, Israel’s national ambulance service, said medical teams were providing treatment to a 30-year-old man “injured by stabbing.” A passerby shot the attacker, according to Magen David Adom. What do we know about the incident? Police did not identify the attacker but believe the stabbing was a terrorist act. “Initial investigations reveal that a terrorist armed with a knife arrived at the restaurant area on Levontin Street and stabbed a civilian,” police said in a statement. “An armed civilian nearby shot and…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that a ceasefire agreement with Hamas has been reached after resolving last-minute disputes. The deal is expected to be reviewed by Israel’s security cabinet on Friday, followed by a government meeting for formal approval.
Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire and hostage release agreement after 15 months of conflict, according to mediators Qatar and the United States. While details are still being finalised, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged the progress and thanked U.S. President Joe Biden for supporting the deal. Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya attributed the agreement to the resilience of the Palestinian people.
At least 17 Palestinians were killed late Tuesday as Israeli airstrikes targeted homes in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. The attacks occurred amid ongoing negotiations for a potential ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, aiming to end a 15-month-long war.
Negotiators in Doha are reportedly finalising a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which could mark a significant step toward ending months of violence. As part of the deal, Hamas is expected to release 33 hostages in the initial phase, Israeli officials confirmed.
A study published in The Lancet estimates that Gaza’s death toll from the first nine months of the Israel-Hamas war is 40% higher than reported. While Gaza’s health ministry recorded 37,877 deaths by June 30, 2024, researchers suggest the real figure is closer to 64,260.
At least 19 Palestinians, including eight children, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on southern Gaza overnight, according to local health officials.
Hamas has indicated its readiness to release 34 captives as part of a ceasefire agreement with Israel, according to reports from Reuters and AFP citing a Hamas official.
Ministers from Syria’s transitional government arrived in Qatar on Sunday for their first visit to the Gulf state since the toppling of president Bashar al-Assad last month. The interim foreign minister, Asaad al-Shaibani, was accompanied by defence minister Morhaf Abu Kasra and the new head of intelligence, Anas Khattab, news agency SANA reported. It said the delegation would discuss with Qatari officials “prospects for cooperation and coordination between the two countries”. A Syrian diplomat and a Qatari official told AFP Shaibani had arrived on Sunday morning for meetings. Unlike other Arab countries, Qatar never restored diplomatic ties with Syria under…
Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said Friday that Lebanon was working to find a solution with Syria after two security officials said Damascus had imposed new restrictions on the entry of Lebanese citizens. “Work is underway to resolve the issue of Lebanese citizens being prevented from entering Syria,” Mawlawi told AFP. He said Lebanon’s General Security agency was in touch with “the Syrian side” to resolve the issue. The developments appeared to be the first instance of friction between the two neighbours, who share a fraught history since the rebels toppled longtime Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad last month. Lebanese nationals had…
Elon Musk calls for release of jailed UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson, the self proclaimed freedom fighter and anti-Islam campaigner. Tommy is a thug who has a criminal record which includes convictions for violence, financial, and immigration frauds, cocaine and others. But Musk expressed his support for Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the founder of the far-right English Defence League. Musk appears to be taking a keen interest in the United Kingdom’s political scene since the Labour Party won a landslide election victory in July 2024, bringing an end to 14 years of Conservative rule. Tesla misses production target as Musk’s company loses value Musk calls…
‘I do not know about you, but throughout these months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, I felt like I had no fight left in me, no clever arguments to stitch together, no grace to extend & no warmth to provide. I’ve felt suffocated’, writes Paola Salwan Daher. Paola Salwan Daher is a leftist feminist activist from the Lebanese Diaspora and an international law lawyer. She is currently the Senior Director for Collective Action at Women Deliver. When she left the German socio-democrat Party in 1919, Clara Zetkin declared: ‘I’ve been fighting for the socialist ideal for almost forty years. I…
Dozens protest in Sudan after authorities changed two of the notes in circulation costing them thousands as the new government takes control. The Sudanese demonstrated outside the seat of the army-backed government in Port Sudan on Tuesday to protest against its move to enact a partial currency swap. Dozens protest in Sudan as gov switches banknotes The army-backed government had set a Monday deadline for residents of the six states under its control to swap old 500 and 1,000 Sudanese pound banknotes for new ones. But as dozens protested outside government offices in the Red Sea port city on Tuesday,…
Russia’s flurry of attacks on Kyiv and elsewhere come after Ukraine sea drone downs Mi-8 helicopter for the first time with a naval drone. The latest from Russia as it launched a heavy aerial attack on Ukraine hitting the capital, Kyiv, and other regions with a volley of missiles and drones. Russia-Ukraine war News Russia-Ukraine war News – Ukraine’s air force said on Tuesday it downed six out of 21 Russia-launched missiles overnight. Suggesting Russia used 40 drones to attack the country and the Ukrainian air force said on Telegram that the air defence units shot down 16 and 24…
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom G, who last week was caught up in an Israeli strike against Yemen’s main airport that he said might have cost him his life, called for Abu Safiya’s immediate release. As the Israelites continue their genocide in Gaza. The WHO chief called Monday for the immediate release of Hossam Abu Safiyeh, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who is being held by Israel’s military following a major raid on the facility. The Friday-Saturday assault on Kamal Adwan in Beit Lahia left northern Gaza’s last major health facility out of service and emptied of patients, the World…
A Jeju Air plane carrying 181 people from Thailand to South Korea crashed on arrival Sunday, smashing into a barrier and bursting into flames, leaving all but two feared dead. A bird strike and adverse weather conditions were cited by authorities as likely causes of the crash that flung passengers out of the plane and left it “almost completely destroyed”, according to fire officials. Video showed the Jeju Air plane from Bangkok landing on its belly at Muan International Airport, skidding off the runway as smoke streamed out from the engines, before crashing into a wall and exploding in flames.…
A plane crash has killed almost everyone on board the South Korean Jeju Air Flight 2216. The Boeing jet exploded on the tarmac after skidding along the runway during a landing malfunction. According to news reports the plane burned-out wreckage of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft located on the runway at Muan — some 288 kilometres (about 180 miles) southwest of Seoul — as firefighters and emergency vehicles worked nearby. Bits of plane seats and luggage were strewn across the field next to the runway, not far from the charred tail, offering a glimpse into the catastrophic impact of…
In a shocking, yet not surprising development reports have emerged that during the siege of Kamal Adwan hospital Medics burnt alive at Gaza hospital after Israel starts fire. Israeli forces set fire to the hospital and stormed it on Friday, ordering medical staff and patients to leave. They had been besieging and attacking the facility – the last remaining hospital operating in northern Gaza – for weeks. Medics burnt alive at Gaza hospital Medical staff at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza were reportedly burned alive when Israeli forces set fire to it on Friday, as Sawt Asharq reported on…
Forcibly displaced Palestinians struggle with harsh winter conditions in Gaza whilst battling the fury of Israeli genocide. The chief paediatric doctor at a southern Gaza hospital confirmed Gaza hospital says four babies have died of “severe temperature drop” this week as the war-ravaged Palestinian territory grapples with winter cold. Gaza hospital says four babies have died The fourth baby died within 72 hours of the first in Gaza, with medical sources saying the infant died due to exposure to the cold. Dr. Ahmed al-Farra of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis city said a three-week-old girl “was brought to the emergency…
Protests in Syria as video showing attack on shrine surfaces that rallies thousands of people in Syria to take to the streets to protest a video showing an attack on an Alawite shrine, which the new government don’t deny but say is “old” and republished by “unknown groups to stir up strife”. Members of Syria’s new police force have been killed in clashes in Tartus province, marking the most violent night since the ousting of the Assad regime. This is troubling the entire middle east that is divided between support for the freedom of the Syrian people but troubled by…
Israel’s practice of demolishing homes continues to devastate Palestinian families situated on the slopes of Mount Gerizim. While agents in Israel and the US are subsequently settlement plots in the same area. Around 50 families in Nablus in the north of the occupied West Bank have been given notices by Israeli forces that their homes will be demolished, under the pretext that their houses have been built on “archaeological land”. The demolition orders were issued last week and gave homeowners 14 days to object, after which their homes could face immediate demolition. While usually Israel issues demolition orders for homes built in…
Gantz confirmed for the first time that Israel was responsible for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. After months of questioning and denials to the public and media, Gantz admits he was responsible for the escalation of Israel’s war in Lebanon. Israel calls for Iran to be targeted Israel calls for Iran to be targeted “directly” and publicly claimed responsibility for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh earlier this year, in comments made by Israel’s former war cabinet member, Benny Gantz. According to Israeli media, Benny Gantz called for Israel to “target Iran directly” to stop attacks from…
A wave of Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 50 Palestinians in the past 24 hours in one of the most intensive bombing sprees on a civilian population. Palestine is on the verge of being wiped out. One of the attacks overnight and into Monday hit a tent camp in the al-Mawasi area, a so-called humanitarian “safe zone”, killing eight people, including two children as it plunges on with its deadly onslaught and genocide in Gaza. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir el-Balah said three bodies arrived after an air attack on a school-turned-shelter in the Nuseirat…
Iran does not need proxy forces like the United States who backs extremists and militants to fight on its behalf. Iran’s supreme leader emphatically denied the use of militant groups around the region functioned as Tehran’s proxies, warning that if his country chose to “take action”, it would not need them anyway. The Supreme Leader said Iran doesn’t have proxy forces in the region, and would fight for its own cause on its own. The remarks came after The remarks came after a year in which Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza suffered heavy losses amid wars with Israel,…
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