This is Beirut, 10/05 23:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Hamas's armed wing released a video on Saturday showing two Israeli hostages alive in the Gaza Strip, with one of the two men calling to end the 19-month-long war. The pair were identified by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum campaign group as Elkana Bohbot and Yosef Haim Ohana, who were kidnapped during Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on ...
This is Beirut, 23/04 18:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hamas Israel Palestine Hostages Omri Miran
Hamas's armed wing released a video Wednesday showing an Israeli-Hungarian hostage walking through a tunnel in Gaza and lighting a candle to mark his birthday. In the nearly three-minute clip published by the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the hostage—who identifies himself as Omri Miran—addresses the camera in Hebrew. His ...
This is Beirut, 04/04 15:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israel Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas Hostages Gaza
Israel announced the launch of a new ground offensive in Gaza City on Friday, with rescuers saying military operations had killed at least 30 people across the Palestinian territory since dawn. Israel has pushed since the collapse of a short-lived truce in the war with Hamas to seize territory in Gaza in what it has called a strategy to force the ...
This is Beirut, 04/04 09:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas Gaza Hostages
The Israeli army announced it had launched a new ground offensive east of Gaza City on Friday to expand the security zone it has established inside the Palestinian territory. "Over the past few hours... troops have begun conducting ground activity in the area of Shejaiya in northern Gaza in order to expand the security zone," the ...
This is Beirut, 26/02 17:17 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Gaza Israel Palestine Hostages
Hamas's armed wing said Wednesday that it would hand over the bodies of four Israeli hostages "tonight" as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal. "Within the framework of the deal, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades has decided to hand over the bodies of four hostages tonight," the group said, providing the names of the captives. ...
This is Beirut, 21/02 20:05 - Reading : less than a minute
Israel will free 602 inmates from jails on Saturday as part of a hostage-prisoner swap with Hamas under an ongoing Gaza ceasefire deal, according to the Palestinian Prisoners' Club advocacy group. Among those released, 445 are people from Gaza who were arrested after Hamas' October 7 attack that sparked the war, 60 are serving long ...
This is Beirut, 15/02 16:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Hamas Israel Palestine Hostages Ramallah
A bus carrying a group of Palestinian prisoners released Saturday by Israel under the Gaza ceasefire deal arrived to a cheering crowd in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to an AFP journalist. Wearing traditional keffiyeh scarves, the freed prisoners were hoisted onto the crowd's shoulders. They hugged relatives before heading to ...
This is Beirut, 15/02 14:44 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Palestinian militants handed three Israeli hostages over to the Red Cross on Saturday, while buses carrying freed Palestinian prisoners rolled out of two Israeli jails in the latest exchange under an ongoing Gaza truce deal. An AFP journalist saw masked Hamas militants parade the hostages onto a stage in Gaza's southern city of Khan Yunis, where ...
This is Beirut, 14/02 22:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hamas Israel Palestine Hostages
A Hamas official said on Friday that he expects the second phase of indirect negotiations on the Gaza Strip ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel to begin "early next week." "We expect the second phase of ceasefire negotiations to begin early next week, and mediators are continuing discussions on the matter," said the ...
This is Beirut, 07/02 21:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel and Hamas are set to carry out the fifth exchange of hostages for Palestinian detainees under a ceasefire agreement on Saturday, despite doubts cast on the continuation of the process by Donald Trump's proposal for a US takeover of Gaza. According to the Palestinian Prisoners' Club, Israel will release 183 prisoners in exchange for three ...
This is Beirut, 03/02 17:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hamas Israel ceasefire hostages
Hamas is ready to begin talks on the details of a second phase of the ongoing truce in Gaza, two officials from the Palestinian militant group told AFP on Monday. "Hamas has informed the mediators, during ongoing communications and meetings held with Egyptian mediators last week in Cairo, that we are ready to start the negotiations for the second ...
This is Beirut, 31/01 22:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel is set to release 183 prisoners on Saturday in the fourth hostage-prisoner exchange under the Gaza ceasefire deal, a Palestinian advocacy group said, more than doubling the previous reported figure. "The updated number of prisoners to be released tomorrow is 183," said Palestinian Prisoners' Club spokeswoman Amani Sarahneh on Friday, after ...