•Donald Trump US President-elect Donald Trump said yesterday the ceasefire and hostage release agreement between Israel and Hamas would have never been reached without pressure from him and his incoming administration. The agreement, which would exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, awaits approval by Israel’s security cabinet b...
•Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant Israel’s security cabinet is set to meet today after final details of a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal were ironed out, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said, with the United States “confident” the truce would begin as planned this weekend. If a...
•Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would bring a US-brokered proposal for a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon to his government for approval as soon as yesterday evening. In a televised address, Netanyahu said he would put “a ceasefire outline” to ministers “this evening”. He did not say how long...
•Donald Trump A senior Hamas official said today that the group is “ready for a ceasefire” in Gaza and requested US President-elect Donald Trump to pressure Israel to end the war. “Hamas is ready to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire proposal is presented and on the condition that it is […]
•Site of a previous Israeli air strike on a village in Lebanon yesterday The Israeli military launched strikes in southern Beirut today, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, saying it would leave Hezbollah forces near his country’s border. Our correspondent saw black smoke rising from Beirut’s Har...
•Smoke as Israel bombards Lebanese village of Maroun El Ras today Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati today called for a ceasefire in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah during a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in Beirut. “The key to the solution is to put an end to the Israeli aggression against Lebanon […...
•Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will send a delegation to Rome for talks aimed at ending Israel’s war with Hamas. Netanyahu’s comments came yesterday during a visit to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, a day after he discussed ceasefire efforts with US President Joe Bide...
The Security Council will vote tomorrow on a new draft resolution that seeks an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, diplomats said, but the United States has indicated it may veto it. The vote will come a day after the United States put forward a text on the need for a ceasefire that was vetoed by Russia […]
•Kamala Harris US Vice President Kamala Harris yesterday called for a proposed six-week ceasefire deal in the Israel-Hamas war to be accepted, while criticizing Israel over insufficient aid deliveries into Gaza. “Given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks, which is what [&...
•UK Parliament Pro-Palestinian protesters and politicians responded in outrage yesterday when a United Kingdom parliamentary debate and vote on a Scottish National Party motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza ended with the adoption of a Labour Party amendment. The SNP had put forward a call “for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and Israel,” con...

