A Protester lifts a national flag during a rally demanding the release of Israelis taken hostage a hundred days earlier by the Palestinian Hamas group on October 7, outside the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on January 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Qatar says it has mediated a deal between Israel and Hamas to allow … Read more
Hostages who were abducted by Hamas gunmen during the October 7 attack on Israel are handed over by Hamas militants to the International Red Cross, as part of a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel amid a temporary truce, in an unknown location in the Gaza Strip, November 29, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters … Read more
Among the hostages freed late on Saturday was 21-year-old Maya Regev, who had been kidnapped by Hamas fighters in their deadly assault on the Supernova music festival, a brutal episode in the broader October 7 attack on Israel. She was the first of the music festival hostages to be released since armed Hamas fighters swooped … Read more
A Palestinian man walks past shuttered shops during a general strike in Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on October 18, 2023, a day after a rocket hit a Gaza hospital killing hundreds. | Photo Credit: AFP Two Data Points published last week explored the impoverished nature of the Palestinian territories, especially Gaza, and how … Read more