As the first phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is meant to be drawing to an end, it has once again been put in doubt. After the last six living Israel hostages due to be released in this phase were freed, more than 600 Palestinian prisoners were due to be released…
One of four bodies returned from Gaza to Israel on Thursday is not hostage Shiri Bibas, as claimed by Hamas, the Israeli military said. The news that Shiri Bibas, 33, and her two sons, Ariel and Kfie, who would now be aged five and two, were dead triggered an outpouring of grief in Israel. The…
Lucy Manning Special Correspondent LIFSCHITZ FAMILY Sharone with her father Oded Lifschitz, whose body was returned from Gaza on Thursday From her house in East London, British-Israeli Sharone Lifschitz never gave up hope that her 84-year-old father Oded would return from the horror of Hamas captivity, after more than 500 days. He was a man…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he is working in “full cooperation” with the US on a “common strategy” for Gaza, after talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Netanyahu praised US President Donald Trump’s “bold vision” for Gaza’s future and said he and Rubio had discussed ways to “ensure that future becomes a…
Anadolu Almost 70% of the buildings in Gaza are estimated to be damaged or destroyed Egypt has said it is working on a “comprehensive vision” for the reconstruction of the war-torn Gaza Strip that guarantees Palestinians the right to stay on their land, unlike the proposal put forward by US President Donald Trump. The Egyptian…
President Donald Trump has once again insisted the US will take control of the Gaza Strip, as he met Jordan’s King Abdullah at the White House on Tuesday. It was their first meeting since Trump announced his proposal to take over the enclave and move its population of two million Palestinians to other countries in…
Israel’s prime minister has warned Hamas it will end the ceasefire in Gaza and resume intense fighting if the Palestinian group “does not return our hostages by Saturday noon”. Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered Israeli forces to amass inside and around Gaza in response to Hamas’s announcement that it was postponing freeing more hostages…
ISRAEL KATZ Shlomo Mansour’s body is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza The Israeli military has said an elderly Israeli man was killed during Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on southern Israel and that his body is being held hostage in Gaza. Iraq-born Shlomo Mansour, 86, was abducted by gunmen at his home in…
Lucy Williamson Middle East correspondent BBC Imad Abdallah sits with other day labourers in a square in central Amman hoping to pick up temporary work Donald Trump is expected to face fierce resistance from Jordan’s King Abdullah at the White House today, in their first meeting since the US president proposed moving Gaza’s population to…
Reuters Reports suggest Gazans are finding scenes of total destruction as they head home Israeli troops have withdrawn from the Netzarim Corridor – a military zone cutting off the north of the Gaza Strip from the south. Hundreds of Palestinians in cars and on carts laden with mattresses and other goods began returning to northern…
