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Israel returned the bodies of 45 Palestinians to Gaza on Monday, bringing the total number handed over under the ceasefire deal to 270, the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said. Under a ceasefire deal brokered by US President Donald Trump, Israel was to turn over the bodies of 15 Palestinians for every deceased Israeli ...
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Turkey will on Monday canvass peers in the Islamic world to bring their influence to bear on the future of Gaza, as fears grow for a just weeks-old truce. The October 10 ceasefire in the two-year-long Israel-Hamas war, brokered by US President Donald Trump, has become increasingly fragile, tested by continued Israeli strikes and claims of ...
This is Beirut, 31/10 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israel has returned the bodies of 30 more Palestinians to Gaza as part of an ongoing exchange deal under a US-brokered ceasefire plan, a hospital told AFP on Friday. The Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis told AFP that "the bodies of 30 Palestinian prisoners were received from the Israeli side as part of the exchange deal". Under the truce, ...
This is Beirut, 30/10 14:45 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Since the October ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, a new conflict has erupted in the Gaza Strip: an internal struggle as the Islamist movement targets its Palestinian rivals. The campaign has involved executions, raids, and armed clashes across multiple neighborhoods. Officially, Hamas says it is “restoring order” after two years of war ...
This is Beirut, 30/10 13:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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U.S. officials are engaged in sensitive talks with several countries about creating an international force to be deployed in Gaza, with a plan expected to be presented in the coming weeks, three sources closely involved told Axios. The urgency of the initiative was underscored by an attack last Tuesday, which exposed the fragility of the ...
This is Beirut, 29/10 17:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Stretching east to west across the Gaza Strip, the “yellow line” is a new sort of boundary where the Israeli army has pulled back as part of the ceasefire. Marked with concrete blocks topped by yellow signs, it effectively splits the Palestinian territory in two. On October 20, the Israeli army unveiled the first of these yellow concrete ...
This is Beirut, 29/10 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Aboard Air Force One on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said that «nothing» would jeopardize the ceasefire in Gaza while defending Israel’s right to respond after one of its soldiers was killed. «They killed an Israeli soldier. So the Israelis hit back. And they should hit back», Trump told reporters on Air Force One. His comments ...
This is Beirut, 28/10 23:31 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Gaza's civil defense agency said Israel carried out air strikes Tuesday despite an ongoing ceasefire after accusing Hamas of attacking its troops and violating the US-brokered truce. At least 11 people were killed when one strike hit a house in Gaza City, the agency, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas, said. Prime Minister Benjamin ...
This is Beirut, 27/10 23:07 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hamas handed over the remains of a deceased hostage on Monday as the Palestinian group came under increasing pressure to return its remaining deceased captives as promised under the Gaza ceasefire. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Israeli forces had received a coffin containing what Hamas said was the sixteenth of 28 ...
Mario Chartouni, 27/10 16:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Following a meeting in Cairo on Friday, the main Palestinian factions, including Hamas, announced that they had agreed to entrust the administration of the Gaza Strip to a temporary Palestinian committee composed of independent technocrats. According to a statement posted on Hamas’s website, the committee will oversee day-to-day affairs and ...
This is Beirut, 27/10 15:25 - Reading : less than a minute
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Israel has lifted the state of emergency for areas near the border with Gaza for the first time since Hamas's October 2023 attack, Defence Minister Israel Katz announced on Monday. "I have decided to adopt the (Israeli military's) recommendation and to lift, for the first time since October 7, the special state on the home front," a statement ...
This is Beirut, 27/10 13:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Elio Ernesto Abu Hanna, a young chemistry graduate, died on Sunday from injuries sustained after being shot by Palestinian gunmen at a checkpoint at the entrance of the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, an area where armed factions continue to operate outside the control of the Lebanese state. According to relatives and friends, Abu Hanna was ...