•Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu An Israeli parliamentary committee today advanced a bill proposing the death penalty for terrorists, a move pushed for by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. The National Security Committee approved the amendment to the penal code, which will now be passed onto the parliament for its...
•One of the 30 bodies of Palestinian prisoners being unloaded Israel said yesterday it had received the remains of three additional captives from Hamas as part of the ongoing hostage-prisoner exchange under a US-brokered ceasefire agreement for Gaza. Despite occasional flare-ups, a fragile truce has held in Gaza since October 10 under a deal f...
•Employees of the Nasser Medical Complex wheel a body bag Israel has returned the bodies of 30 more Palestinians to Gaza as part of an ongoing exchange deal under a US-brokered ceasefire plan, a hospital told our correspondent today. The Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis told our correspondent that “the bodies of 30 Palestinian […]...
•Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of Yona Efraim Feldbaum during his funeral in Jerusalem on Wednesday Israel said yesterday that it had identified the remains of hostages Amiram Kuper and Sahar Baruch, whose bodies were returned by Hamas earlier in the day. A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the families of th...
•Marco Rubio US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said today that more countries are ready to normalise relations with Israel but the decision would await a broader regional agreement. Rubio, who was touring a US-led multinational centre in Israel aimed at coordinating a ceasefire in Gaza, said that a sustained end to the war would […]
•Palestinians make their way past destroyed buildings in Gaza City Hamas promised to hand over to Israel the remains of one more hostage last night, after insisting it was committed to returning all the dead captives still unaccounted for under Gaza’s ruins. Turkey, responding to a Hamas call for help in finding the remaining hostage [&hellip...
•Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel’s defence minister threatened yesterday to resume fighting if Hamas does not honour the terms of a US-backed ceasefire that halted the war in Gaza. The statement from Defence Minister Israel Katz’s office came after Hamas handed over the corpses of two more deceased hostages, and said it would ...
•Israeli hostage Gali Berman released by Hamas today Israel said that the last 20 living hostages released by Hamas today had arrived in the country. “Welcome home,” the foreign ministry wrote in a series of posts on X, hailing the return of Matan Angrest, Gali Berman, Ziv Berman, Elkana Bohbot, Rom Braslavski, Nimrod Cohen, David […]...
•Palestinians gather on a street in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip today Israel’s justice ministry published today a list of 250 prisoners to be released in exchange for hostages still held in Gaza, as part of a ceasefire deal with Hamas. The list does not include the names of several senior Palestinian militant leaders […]
•People celebrate the new Gaza ceasefire deal at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv yesterday At last, there is end of war in sight as thousands of Gazans began heading north in the territory after the Israeli military announced that a ceasefire had come into effect today, reports AFP. News cameras captured queues of men, women […]

