Explainer – Gaza war after six months, what are the issues now?
Reuters Six months since Hamas gunmen stormed into southern Israel on a killing spree, Israel’s ground campaign to annihilate the Islamist movement has turned much of the Gaza Strip into a wasteland with an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe. Mediators have been trying to organise the first extended truce of the war to rush in aid to feed the Palestinian territory’s […]
Israeli troops recover slain Gaza hostage, Egypt to host new truce talks
Jerusalem/Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israel said on Saturday its special forces had recovered the body of a hostage killed while being held captive in Gaza, as the Palestinian enclave’s dominant Islamist movement Hamas said it would take part in a new round of ceasefire talks in Cairo. Almost six months into the war, Israel has faced […]
Thousands of Israelis join anti government protests for third day
Jerusalem Reuters Thousands of Israelis took to the streets in Jerusalem on Monday, continuing a three-day protest against the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and demanding new elections. The protests have gathered in intensity as the war in Gaza nears the end of its sixth month and anger at the government’s handling of the […]
Essay: A ceasefire is not enough
KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS, interim president of Episcopal Divinity School and canon theologian at Washington National Cathedral, says, in an article first published on Religion News Service, that divine justice does not settle for temporary ceasefires but advocates without ceasing for a lasting peace…
Israeli military says it killed 90 gunmen at Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital
Jerusalem/Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israel’s military said on Wednesday it had killed around 90 gunmen and arrested 160 in a raid on Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital, an allegation the Islamist Hamas group denied. Al Shifa, the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital before the war, is now one of the few healthcare facilities even partially operational in the […]
Gaza far exceeds famine-level food shortages, mass death imminent, monitor says
Cairo, Egypt/Jerusalem/London Reuters Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and surge of food to areas cut off by fighting, the global hunger monitor said on Monday. The Integrated Food-Security Phase Classification, whose assessments are relied on by […]
Hamas issues ceasefire proposal detailing exchange of hostages, prisoners
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Hamas has presented a Gaza ceasefire proposal to mediators and the US which includes the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for freedom for Palestinian prisoners, 100 of whom are serving life sentences, according to a proposal seen by Reuters. Hamas said the initial release of Israelis would include women, […]
Netanyahu says at least 13,000 “terrorists” among Palestinians killed
Frankfurt, Germany Reuters Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told a German newspaper that at least 13,000 “terrorists” were among Palestinians killed during Israel’s air and ground assault on Gaza. Five months into Israel’s campaign following the 7th October Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, Palestinian health authorities say nearly 31,000 Palestinians have been killed. Israeli […]
Updated: Gaza ceasefire possible, US says; South Africa again asks World Court to intervene
Updated: 12:15pm (AEDT) Cairo, Egypt/Rafah, Gaza Strip Reuters The US said on Wednesday that talks on a ceasefire and release of hostages in Gaza could still reach an agreement between Hamas and Israel as the enclave’s humanitarian crisis prompted South Africa to ask the World Court for new emergency measures. Negotiators from Hamas militants, Qatar […]
Updated: US VP Harris urges Hamas to agree to an immediate ceasefire, pushes Israel on aid to Gaza
Updated: 10:30am (AEDT) Cairo, Egypt/Rafah, Gaza Strip Reuters US Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday demanded Palestinian militant group Hamas agree to an immediate six-week ceasefire while forcefully urging Israel to do more to boost aid deliveries into Gaza, where she said innocent people were suffering a “humanitarian catastrophe.” In some of the strongest comments […]