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November 27, 2023 10:42 AM

Hamas seeks truce extension with conditions, Israel open to longer pause

Hamas expressed willingness to extend the four-day truce, but only when Israel agrees to release more Palestinians, according to a statement from Hamas on Sunday. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is open to tru...

November 26, 2023 10:29 AM

First batch of humanitarian aid supplies since temporary truce reaches Gaza

The first batch of humanitarian aid supplies arrived in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, the second day of the four-day temporary ceasefire in the war-torn Palestinian enclave. The supplies carried by the convoy of three trucks th...

November 24, 2023 3:46 PM

Ceasefire takes hold in Gaza ahead of hostage release, aid enters enclave

A temporary ceasefire between Israeli and Hamas forces took hold in the Gaza Strip on Friday, the first respite in 48 days of conflict that has devastated the Palestinian enclave, but both sides warned that the war was far from over. No big bombings...

November 24, 2023 3:47 PM

Palestinians say 24 women, 15 teenaged males to be freed from Israeli jails

Israel will on Friday release 39 Palestinians prisoners, among them 24 women and 15 teenaged males, in the occupied West Bank in exchange for 13 hostages due to be freed from the Gaza Strip by Hamas, a Palestinian official said. The inmates, all of ...

November 23, 2023 1:47 PM

Far-right’s Geert Wilders seeks to form Dutch govt after shock election win

Dutch anti-EU far-right populist Geert Wilders will start looking for coalition partners on Thursday after a massive election win that is set to have wide repercussions in the Netherlands and Europe. A fan of fellow eurosceptic, Hungary's Prime ...

November 22, 2023 10:59 AM

The secret negotiations that led to the Gaza hostage deal

Shortly after Hamas militants took hostages during their deadly assault on southern Israel on Oct. 7, the government of Qatar contacted the White House with a request: Form a small team of advisers to help work to get the captives freed. That work, ...

November 21, 2023 9:52 AM

Over 14,700 killed in ongoing Palestine-Israel conflict

The death toll from the ongoing Palestine-Israel conflict has exceeded 14,700, according to official data released by both sides. Hamas' media office said on Monday that more than 13,300 people in the Gaza Strip have been killed since the conflict e...

November 20, 2023 4:17 PM

More than 100 Gaza evacuees to arrive in Turkey

More than 100 evacuees from Gaza are set to arrive in Turkey on Monday, including dozens of people who will receive medical treatment there, Turkey's health minister and foreign ministry spokesman said. Sixty-one patients, accompanied by 49 relative...

November 20, 2023 3:52 PM

Gunfire kills, wounds dozens in Gaza hospital encircled by Israeli tanks – health ministry

Israeli tanks surrounded a hospital in north Gaza and at least 12 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by firing into the complex, health officials said on Monday, as fighting raged on amid indications of a possible pause in hostilities. Ther...

November 20, 2023 1:26 PM

In Beijing, Arab and Muslim ministers urge an end to Gaza conflict

Arab and Muslim ministers called on Monday (November 20) for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, as their delegation visited Beijing on the first leg of a tour to push for an end to hostilities and to allow humanitarian aid into the devastated Palestinia...

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