A freed Palestinian prisoner (centre), is greeted by a crowd as he arrives in the Gaza Strip after being released from an Israeli prison following a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, Saturday, January 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP There is an “expectation” that the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip will begin soon, Palestine’s … Read more
A man repairs bicycles at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 21, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. | Photo Credit: AFP Hamas said Wednesday (December 25, 2024) that “new conditions” imposed by Israel had delayed the finalisation of a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, … Read more
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told lawmakers on Monday that “some progress” had been made in negotiations to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza, more than 14 months into the war. His comments in parliament come two days after Palestinian militant groups said in a rare joint statement that a deal for a … Read more
Palestinian journalists carry mock coffins of colleagues who were killed during the war in Gaza during a symbolic funeral toward a United Nations office, in the West Bank city of Ramallah | Photo Credit: AP Fifty-four journalists were killed worldwide while carrying out their work or because of their profession in 2024, a third of … Read more
Rubble lies on the ground at the site of an Israeli strike on Al-Farooq mosque, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, on November 23, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Gaza’s civil defence agency said that 19 people, including at least six children, were killed by Israeli air strikes … Read more
Hezbollah, a heavily armed movement backed by Iran, endorsed its long-time ally Berri to negotiate over a ceasefire. | Photo Credit: Reuters “Lebanon and Hezbollah have agreed to a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire with Israel with some comments on the content,” a top Lebanese official told Reuters on Monday (November 18, 2024), describing the … Read more
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is poised to kick off his second term at the White House, a four-year stint that will likely see major shifts in domestic and foreign policy and transform the functioning of a wide range of American public institutions. The fact that he defied the odds, as predicted by pollsters and some … Read more
This screen grab from a handout video released by the Israeli army on October 17, 2024, shows what it says is a drone footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar moments before he was killed, in the neighbourhood of Tal al-Sultan in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip | Photo Credit: AFP Israel, on Thursday (October … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza in an attempt to starve out Hamas militants, a plan that, if implemented, could trap without food or water hundreds of thousands of Palestinians unwilling or unable to leave their homes. Israel has issued many evacuation orders for … Read more
In a year of war between Israel and Hamas, the people of Gaza have lost nearly everything: their loved ones, their homes, their careers and their dreams. AFP spoke to a student, a paramedic and a former civil servant in Gaza, to hear how the conflict has destroyed their lives. The student stopped in his … Read more