Hamas is preparing for the possible release of Palestinian prisoners in light of reports of significant progress in negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire. “We renew our promise to our steadfast, patient people and to our heroic prisoners in the jails and affirm that their freedom will soon be achieved,’’ Hamas said on Monday. Israeli Foreign…
The Israeli military said early on Tuesday that its Air Force attacked a group of armed terrorists in the West Bank. A fighter jet targeted the “terrorists’’ in the area of Tamun in the Jordan Valley, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said on X. Details were not initially provided. No less than three Israelis had…
The Jerusalem court hearing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial has postponed hearings set for next week as Netanyahu undergoes a prostate operation on Sunday. The hearings will now be held on January 6 and subsequent days. Netanyahu is charged with fraud, embezzlement and bribery. The accusations against him include that he granted the…
Israel and the Lebanese armed group, Hezbollah, agreed to a ceasefire that was brokered by the United States and France. Under the ceasefire agreement, Israel will gradually withdraw its troops from Lebanon’s south over 60 days. Over the same timeframe, Hezbollah fighters and weapons will be removed from the area south of the Litani River,…
The Israeli military on Monday declared another of the hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip to be dead. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) wrote on social media platform X that the hostage in question is a 21-year-old Israeli-American soldier born in New York. He was killed during the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks on…
Israel looks set to approve a U.S. plan for a ceasefire with the Iran-backed Hezbollah on Tuesday, a senior Israeli official said, clearing the way for an end to the war which has killed thousands of people since it was ignited by the Gaza conflict 14 months ago. Israel’s security cabinet is expected to convene…
At least 12 people were killed in an Israeli bombardment of a house in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip overnight, according to a local hospital. Kamal Adwan Hospital said that women and children were among the victims. At least 10 more people are buried under the rubble of the house, the hospital said. The…
President Bola Tinubu on Monday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, called for an end to Israeli aggression in Gaza, warning “the conflict in Palestine has persisted for far too long, inflicting immeasurable suffering.” Addressing the extraordinary Arab-Islamic Summit, convened to address the current situation in the Middle East, President Tinubu expressed deep concern over the humanitarian…
Israeli warplanes has began bombing branches of Al Qard Al Hassan, a financial institution affiliated with Hezbollah, local media reported. The report confirmed that the branch of the financial institution in Chiyah in Beirut’s southern suburbs had been attacked, with no immediate casualties reported yet. Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari has threatened earlier that the…
No less than 18 people were killed, and four others wounded on Monday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential apartment in Aitou. A village in Lebanon’s North Governorate, the Lebanese Red Cross said in a post on X. Lebanese TV channel LBCI reported that the building targeted in the airstrike was rented by displaced…
