JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says a ceasefire deal with Hamas has still not been reached. In a statement, Netanyahu’s office said that final details were still unresolved, but that it hoped “details will be finalized tonight.” That comes after multiple mediators had said Israel and ...
President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that a Gaza ceasefire deal "has been reached" between Israel and Hamas. Watch White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's briefing in the player above. "It's a very good afternoon because at long last, I can announce a cease fire," Biden said in ...
... released by Hamas showing surviving hostages in distress, combined with news that a growing number of abducted Israelis have died, put added pressure on the Israeli leader. Hamas, a militant group that does not accept Israel’s existence, has come under overwhelming pressure from Israeli military operations, including the invasion ...
... power in Gaza in 2007, confining the Western-backed Palestinian Authority’s limited self-rule to parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The U.S. has called for a revitalized Palestinian Authority to govern both the West Bank and Gaza ahead of eventual statehood, which the Israeli government opposes.
Nick Schifrin: There's a phase two where you would see another round of Israeli hostages released, another round of Palestinian detainees released, and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. That would begin phase three, which is really the long-term phase. You would get the final Israeli hostages left ...
... blamed Israel for repeated setbacks in the negotiations, saying that on more than one occasion, it had accepted a proposal from mediators only to see Israel reject it or launch a new military operation. Israel and its close ally the United States have blamed setbacks on Hamas.Dozens of protesters ...
... which hostages would be released in the first part of a phased ceasefire deal, which Palestinian prisoners would be released and the extent of any Israeli troop withdrawal from population centers in Gaza. Hamas and other groups killed some 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages into Gaza in ...
... people in airstrikes earlier this week. In Israel, family members of hostages who were killed in captivity echoed the calls for a ceasefire, imploring the Israeli government and world leaders to reach a deal, a day after Israeli soldiers recovered the body of 53-year-old hostage Yosef AlZayadni in ...
... have Israeli citizenship. The traditionally nomadic community is particularly impoverished in Israel and has suffered from neglect and marginalization. Palestinians make up some 20% of Israel’s 10 million population, and millions more live in Gaza and under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank. Eight members of Israel’s ...
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