•Christian pilgrims The Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) has announced that the final batch of intending Christian pilgrims for the 2024 Main Pilgrimage Exercise will be airlifted to Israel and Jordan on March 20, 2025. Executive Secretary of the NCPC, Bishop Stephen Adegbite, disclosed this during a prayer devotion at the Commissi...
•Mourners hold pictures of Hezbollah fighters during the funeral of militants and civilians killed in the recent war with Israel in Lebanon Israel said yesterday it killed a senior Hezbollah militant responsible for drones and missiles, even as it freed Lebanese prisoners as a “goodwill” gesture to the country’s new president. Despite a ceasef...
•Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it had received the names of three hostages to be released by Palestinian militants from Gaza tomorrow. The hostages are Israeli-Russian Sasha Trupanov, Israeli-American Sagui Dekel-Chen and Israeli-Argentinian Yair Horn, the office said in ...
•US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court yesterday for “illegitimate and baseless” investigations targeting America and its ally Israel, the White House said. Trump signed an executive order saying the court in The Hague had “abused its power” by issuing an arrest warrant for Is...
•Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The UN agency for Palestinian refugees must end operations and leave all its premises in Jerusalem by January 30, Israel’s UN ambassador said yesterday, affirming timelines set out in controversial Israeli legislation. Defying international concern, Israeli lawmakers have passed legislation that bars ...
Hamas freed three Israeli hostages while Israel released 90 Palestinian prisoners yesterday, marking the first day of a ceasefire halting a 15-month-long conflict that has ravaged the Gaza Strip and intensified tensions across the Middle East. The truce enabled Palestinians to return to bombed-out neighborhoods to begin rebuilding their lives,...
•Israeli flag The Israeli justice ministry published a list of 95 Palestinian prisoners who are to be freed starting Sunday as part of the first exchange for Israeli captives under a Gaza ceasefire deal. “The release of prisoners is… subject to government approval of the (ceasefire) plan and will not take place before Sunday 16:00 […]...
•Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) attends a meeting in the command center of the defense ministry Israel’s security cabinet approved in a vote today a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal that should take effect this weekend, the prime minister’s office said. The agreement, which must now go to the full cabinet for a final [&helli...
•People celebrating along a street in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday Crowds of Gazans chanted and embraced yesterday as news spread that a ceasefire and hostage release deal had been reached between Israel and Hamas aimed at ending more than 15 months of war in the Palestinian territory. After a US official […]
•Men and children stand by a collapsed building at the site of Israeli bombardment on a residential block in Jalaa street, Gaza city, yesterday Hamas has approved a draft deal for a ceasefire in Gaza, with Israel’s cabinet debating the conditions, officials suggest. A truce, if agreed, would put an end to over a year […]

