The family of one of the hostages rescued in an Israeli operation over the weekend has said that he experienced psychological abuse over the hands of his Hamas captors during the eight months that he was held in Gaza. Andrey Kozlov, 27, was rescued alongside Noa Argamani, Almog Meir Jan and Shlomi Ziv during a raid on […]
By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Andrew Mills (Reuters) – Hamas wants written guarantees from the United States for a permanent ceasefire and withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip in order to sign off on a U.S.-backed truce proposal, two Egyptian security sources said. Mediators Qatar and Egypt said Hamas had responded on Tuesday […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday expressed frustration that Hamas has submitted “numerous changes” to a US-backed proposal for a ceasefire and release of hostages in Gaza – a development that casts further doubt on the prospects of quickly securing the deal the US hopes will bring “an enduring end” to the war. […]
Israel and Hamas have been accused of committing a litany of war crimes and human rights abuses since 7 October in a new independent report to the UN Human Rights Council. The damning accusations, compiled by investigators from the UN’s Commission of Inquiry, accused both sides of war crimes for mounting attacks against civilian populations […]
US secretary of state Antony Blinken has said the war in Gaza will go on after Hamas proposed “numerous” changes to an American-backed ceasefire plan – some that he said were “workable”, and some not. Mr Blinken did not spell out what the changes were. Speaking to reporters in Qatar, he said the US and […]
The United Nations has added Israel’s military, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s armed wing for the first time to its list of offenders for violating children’s rights. The three entities, along with Sudan’s warring parties, have been singled out for the killing and maiming of children. “Children were killed and maimed in unprecedented numbers”, the […]
Hamas said it has given mediators its reply to the US-backed proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, seeking some “amendments” on the deal. It appeared the reply was short of an outright acceptance that the United States has been pushing for but kept negotiations alive over an elusive halt to the eight-month war. The foreign […]
Hamas said it has given mediators its reply to the US-backed proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, seeking some “amendments” on the deal. It appeared the reply was short of an outright acceptance that the United States has been pushing for but kept negotiations alive over an elusive halt to the eight-month war. The foreign […]
CAIRO (Reuters) – Mediators Egypt and Qatar received a response from Hamas and Palestinian groups to a U.S. ceasefire plan for Gaza, the Egyptian and Qatari governments said on Tuesday as an official briefed on the matter said Hamas proposed a new timeline. The statement from Egypt and Qatar did not disclose what the response […]
Hamas has said that it gave Qatari and Egyptian mediators its reply to the US-backed proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, with some “remarks” on the deal. It appeared the reply was short of an outright acceptance that the United States has been pushing for, but the group said it was ready to keep working […]
Hamas has said that it gave Qatari and Egyptian mediators its reply to the US-backed proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, with some “remarks” on the deal. It appeared the reply was short of an outright acceptance that the United States has been pushing for, but the group said it was ready to keep working […]
The University of Minnesota paused the hiring of a professor who wrote that Israel’s military operation against Hamas in Gaza after Oct. 7 was “a textbook case of genocide” to head the school’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (CHGS), Jewish Insider has learned. The pause, which has not yet been publicly announced by the […]