"Israel appreciates the efforts of the US and the mediators to dissuade Hamas from its refusal to agree to a hostage release deal. "Israel's fundamental principles are well known to the mediators and the US," the PMO said. "Israel hopes that their pressure will lead Hamas to accept the M...
"We're in Cairo. They're in Cairo. We need Hamas to participate, and we need to get down to the brass tacks of locking in these details. And that's what we're focused on here in the next, coming days here over the course of the weekend," Kirby said. Go to the full article >...
This week, Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, said that Iran would retaliate for the killing of Hamas leaderIsmail Haniyehin Tehran on July 31. The comments were reported in Iranian state media. His reference to Iran’s “response” to Israel is part of a kind of drum roll by...
In a televised speech on the first day of what is meant to be a four-day truce in the Israel-Hamas war, Islamic Jihad leader Ziad Nakhaleh said that “the enemy’s military prisoners will not be released without the freedom of our prisoners and this is linked to the end of the aggres...
Here’s what’s happening in the latest Israel-Hamas war: PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS FORCE THEIR WAY INTO A UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BUILDING Forty people were arrested Friday night and two police officers were injured after a group of pro-Palestinian protesters forced their way into a building on...
— Find more of AP’s coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war. Here’s what’s happening in the war: FREED PALESTINIAN PRISONERS ARRIVE IN WEST BANK CITY A Red Cross bus carrying Palestinian prisoners released by Israel arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah early Tuesday....
HAPPENING TODAY —The U.S. is planning to put a draft resolution calling for an “immediate and sustained” end to the fighting in Gaza before the U.N. Security Council today for a vote, “raising the pressure on Israel to pause its five-month-old war with Hamas,”WSJ’s Stephen Kalin...
— Find more of AP’s coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war Here’s what’s happening in the war: BIDEN PRAISES HOSTAGE DEAL AND SAYS HE WON’T STOP UNTIL THEY’RE ALL RELEASED NANTUCKET, Mass. — United States President Joe Biden said in a statement late Tuesday that ...
CNN has reached out to Hamas and the Gaza Media Office for comment. What’s been happening at the hospital: Israeli forces detained Palestinian journalists and health workers, blindfolded them and stripped them down to their underwear in Al-Shifa Hospital, according to eyewitness accounts shared ...
Two hostages have been rescued in an overnight Israeli military raid on Hamas targets in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson told reporters on Monday. Here’s what we know so far: Who are the hostages? The hostages are 60-year-old Fernando Simo...