Israeli President Isaac Herzog is due to attend the UN climate talks in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, where he will hold talks with diplomats on the release of hostages held by Hamas.
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Israel and Hamas embarked on a two-day extension Tuesday to a truce that has allowed Israeli hostages to be freed from Gaza in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas’s fighters are set to release a new wave of hostages today Saturday in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, officials said, offering hope to anguished families after seven weeks of war that have killed thousands of people.
An exodus of big-name advertisers appeared under way at X, formerly Twitter, with Elon Musk endorsing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
Hundreds of people fled on Saturday after Israel’s army ordered evacuation of Gaza’s main hospital, where more than 2,000 patients, medics, and displaced people were trapped between Israel and Hamas
101 staff working for the United Nation Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) working with and for Palestine Refugees have been…
On October 24, a statement by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres caused a sharp reaction by Israel. He had condemned in the strongest terms the massacre committed by Hamas on October 7, but also reminded the world that it did not take place in a vacuum. He explained that one cannot dissociate 56 years of occupation from our engagement with the tragedy that unfolded on that day. Israeli officials demanded Guterres’s resignation, claiming that he supported Hamas and justified the massacre it carried out. The Israeli media also jumped on the bandwagon, asserting among other things that the UN chief had demonstrated a stunning degree of “moral bankruptcy”. The Israeli position has been that the definition of anti-Semitism be expanded to include criticism of the Israeli state and questioning the moral basis of Zionism.
The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abdallah Abu Shawesh, on Wednesday, described as a lie, the claim by the Israeli government that it was trying to free the Palestinians from Hamas.
The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) has called for the adoption of the recommendations of the Oslo Accord in order to end the carnage in Gaza.
The heads of several UN organizations and humanitarian groups have issued a joint call for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas.