Israel prepares to receive six more hostages from Hamas

Israel prepares to receive six more hostages from Hamas

Palestinian children stand and watch as Hamas fighters take up a position ahead of handing over four bodies to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on February 20, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Israel prepared on Saturday (February 22, 2025) to receive six more hostages from Gaza in exchange for hundreds of … Read more

Sick, injured children begin crossing from Gaza to Egypt in first opening in months

Sick, injured children begin crossing from Gaza to Egypt in first opening in months

A convoy, with some of the vehicles carrying Palestinian patients and injured people, waits to head towards Rafah crossing before they leave Gaza for treatment abroad, amid a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters A group of 50 sick and injured … Read more

Human Rights Watch says Israel’s restriction of water supply in Gaza amounts to acts of genocide

Human Rights Watch says Israel’s restriction of water supply in Gaza amounts to acts of genocide

A displaced Palestinian woman, Makram Hamdouna, carries a water container outside her shelter, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip December 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Human Rights Watch on Thursday (December 19, 2024) accused Israel of causing the deaths of thousands of Palestinians by systematically restricting and targeting Gaza’s water supply in … Read more

Gaza rescuers say Israel kills 33 in morning strikes

Gaza rescuers say Israel kills 33 in morning strikes

A drone view shows smoke above Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, as seen from near Kibbutz Nir Am in southern Israel, December 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Gaza’s civil defence agency reported that Israeli air strikes on Thursday killed at least 33 people, … Read more

Hamas, Fatah agree to create joint committee to run post-war Gaza

Hamas, Fatah agree to create joint committee to run post-war Gaza

People chant slogans during a pro-Palestinian protest | Photo Credit: AP Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party have agreed to create a committee to jointly run post-war Gaza, negotiators from both sides said Tuesday (December 3, 2024). Under the plan, which needs Abbas’s approval, the committee would be composed of … Read more

India in close consultation with Arab countries as West Asian conflict drags on

India in close consultation with Arab countries as West Asian conflict drags on

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar meets UAE Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi on Thursday (November 14, 2024). | Photo Credit: ANI Amidst a flurry of exchanges between Indian and West Asian officials in the recent weeks, two senior Arab diplomats have taken charge of the ambassadorial posts at the … Read more

Lebanon says three killed in Israeli strike near Sidon city

Lebanon says three killed in Israeli strike near Sidon city

People walk past a destroyed building hit in an Israeli airstrike, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Lebanon’s health ministry said three people were killed in an Israeli strike Sunday near the southern city of Sidon, as state media reported the recovery of five bodies from the flashpoint … Read more

Israeli forces capture senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon, Israeli military official says

Israeli forces capture senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon, Israeli military official says

Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, early Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) | Photo Credit: AP Israeli naval forces captured a senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon, an Israeli military official said Saturday, as the conflict between the Iran-backed group and Israel showed few … Read more

Hezbollah says launched rockets at intelligence base near Tel Aviv

Hezbollah says launched rockets at intelligence base near Tel Aviv

Mourners attend the funeral of two militants from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), reportedly killed in southern Lebanon in fighting against the Israeli army, in Ain el Helweh refugees camp on November 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said on Saturday (November 2, 2024) it had launched … Read more

Israel must stop ‘ethnic cleansing’, Jordan foreign minister tells Blinken

Israel must stop ‘ethnic cleansing’, Jordan foreign minister tells Blinken

Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi (R) reacts as he meets United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken (unseen), in London, on October 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Jordan’s foreign minister on Friday (October 25, 2024) called for pressure on Israel to end “ethnic cleansing”, in strong remarks as he met U.S. Secretary of State … Read more