This is Beirut, 03/02 22:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Donald Trump United States Gaza Ceasefire Hamas
US President Donald Trump said on Monday there were "no guarantees" that a fragile ceasefire in Gaza will hold, as he prepares to discuss its future with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu was in Washington for talks with the new Trump administration on a second phase of the truce with Hamas, which has not yet been ...
This is Beirut, 03/02 17:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas ceasefire hostages
Hamas is ready to begin talks on the details of a second phase of the ongoing truce in Gaza, two officials from the Palestinian militant group told AFP on Monday. "Hamas has informed the mediators, during ongoing communications and meetings held with Egyptian mediators last week in Cairo, that we are ready to start the negotiations for the second ...
This is Beirut, 01/02 22:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas Palestine
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed retired Major General Eyal Zamir as Israel's new Chief of Staff on Saturday, following the resignation of his predecessor last month, who took responsibility for failing to prevent Hamas's October 2023 attack. "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have agreed this evening ...
This is Beirut, 01/02 19:59 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Gaza Hamas Gaza Ceasefire
Hamas freed three Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for more than 180 Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli custody, marking the fourth such swap under a ceasefire deal aimed at ending the war in Gaza. Hostages Ofer Kalderon and Yarden Bibas were paraded on stage by Hamas fighters before being handed over to the Red Cross in the ...
This is Beirut, 01/02 14:42 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Gaza Hamas Rafah Crossing Rafah
The health ministry in Gaza said 50 Palestinian patients went through the Rafah crossing to Egypt on Saturday, as the key gateway reopened as part of a ceasefire deal with Israel. Egyptian state-linked channel Al-Qahera News showed footage of the first of 50 evacuees and 53 companions, including a child with an autoimmune disease, crossing the ...
This is Beirut, 01/02 14:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Three buses carrying Palestinian prisoners released by Israel as part of a ceasefire deal arrived in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younes on Saturday, an AFP correspondent reported. The prisoners, many wearing gray prison uniforms, were greeted by hundreds of Gazans who gathered around the buses as they approached the city's European ...
This is Beirut, 01/02 10:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hamas militants on Saturday released Israeli hostages Yarden Bibas, Ofer Kalderon and Kieth Siegel after they spent nearly 16 months of captivity in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. They are the fourth batch of hostages to be freed under a ceasefire and hostage-prisoner exchange deal between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas that went ...
This is Beirut, 31/01 22:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Gaza Hamas Hostages
Israel is set to release 183 prisoners on Saturday in the fourth hostage-prisoner exchange under the Gaza ceasefire deal, a Palestinian advocacy group said, more than doubling the previous reported figure. "The updated number of prisoners to be released tomorrow is 183," said Palestinian Prisoners' Club spokeswoman Amani Sarahneh on Friday, after ...
This is Beirut, 31/01 16:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Gaza's Rafah border crossing with Egypt is to reopen Saturday following a fourth exchange of hostages and prisoners under a truce agreement, a Hamas official and a source with knowledge of discussions told AFP. The Rafah crossing was a vital entry point for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza before the Israeli military seized the Palestinian side of ...
This is Beirut, 31/01 12:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Hamas's armed wing released the names of three Israeli captives to be freed on Saturday in the fourth hostage-prisoner swap of the Gaza ceasefire. The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed it had received the names of the captives to be freed on Saturday. It has yet to officially release their names. "All ...
This is Beirut, 31/01 11:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas Palestine USA
Hamas confirmed on Thursday the death of its military chief Mohammed Deif, accused by Israel of being one of the masterminds behind the October 7 attack and whose killing it announced last year. "The Al-Qassam Brigades announce to our great people the martyrdom of a group of distinguished fighters and heroic commanders," Abu Obeida, spokesman for ...
This is Beirut, 30/01 20:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The United Nations said Thursday its humanitarian relief agency UNRWA would continue working in all Palestinian territories, including east Jerusalem, despite Israeli legislation coming into force that cuts ties with the organization. Israel decided to ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees following accusations some of its staff belong to ...