Internally displaced Palestinians rest as they take refuge in a United Nations school, in the Rafah refugee camp, in the southern of Gaza Strip on October 14, 2023, as fighting between Israel and the Hamas movement continues for the eighth consecutive day in the Gaza Strip enclave. Mohammed A...
On Friday, he was in the Jordanian capital to meet King Abdullah and Mahmoud Abbas, Head of the Palestinian Authority in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Abbas told Blinken in Amman that humanitarian corridors into Gaza must be allowed immediately, adding that "we reject ...
Israel has been amassing troops along the Gaza border in preparation fora ground offensivein a bid to eradicate Hamas militants. On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces issued a 24-hour notice for 1.1 million residents in northern Gaza to evacuate to the south for their own safety. He said Isra...
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Hamas transferred to Israel a body of “a Gazan woman in coffin” instead of one of the hostages. Hamas on Thursday released four bodies they said were Israeli hostages, including two young children who were long feared dead...
So too did the PLO-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA), inter alia, instruct mosque preachers under its jurisdiction to include in their Friday sermons a notorious hadith (contained in Hamas’s covenant) urging the total extermination of the Jews, as well as wage a sustained international ...
Hamas officials have raised in recent days the notion of independent, non-partisan bodies taking over governing the Gaza Strip and West Bank following the Israel-Hamas war. French news agency AFP reported on Friday that Husam Badran, a member ofHamas's political bureau, had stated some commitme...
Yaffa Adar, 85, was among the first hostages released on Friday night. She was last seen being paraded through the streets of Gaza on a golf cart stolen from her kibbutz. "They say a lot of jokes about the Jewish grandma… but there isn't a tougher material in the world," declared ...
SeniorHamasofficial Khalil al-Hayya visited Cairo on Thursday to discuss Egyptian and American hostage deal proposals, according to a Friday report from the UK-based Qatari newspaperAl-Araby al-Jadeed. According to the report, al Hayya claimed that any movement towards negotiations must be preceded...
The renewed push comes even as fighting continues in Gaza – on Friday the UN’s top courtordered Israelto halt its offensive in the southern city of Rafah, Talks between Israel and Hamas have stalled for months, with both parties failing to reach an agreement over differences on key demands...
The body of Hamas political leaderIsmail Haniyeharrived in Doha on Thursday from Iran in preparation for his burial on Friday, videos obtained by CNN show. Haniyeh’s funeral prayer will be held after the Friday prayer at the Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab Mosque in the Qatari capital, foll...