US Republican senators say Israeli prime minister gave them an update on the war and the hostages, saying he will continue until they defeat Hamas.
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Israel’s war on besieged Palestinians of Gaza — now in its 154th day — has killed at least 30,878 people, mostly children and women, and wounded 72,402, as Netanyahu vows to ignore global calls against planned Rafah invasion.
Israel’s war on Gaza — now in its 149th day — has killed at least 30,320 Palestinians, mostly children and women, and wounded 71,533 others.
Israel’s war on Gaza — now in its 140th day — has killed at least 29,514 Palestinians, mostly children and women, and wounded 69,616 others.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated his stance on Palestinian group Hamas and said he can “never accept” Hamas as a terror group, Anadolu Agency reports.
Israel and Hamas have swapped 41 Israelis and foreigners for 78 Palestinians from Israeli jails in two batches of a prisoner swap carried out in the first two days of a four-day humanitarian pause.
In a sign of the fragility of the exchanges, the latest swap Saturday was delayed for hours after Hamas accused Israel of breaching its side of the deal that led to a four-day ceasefire in seven weeks of war marked by the deadliest Israeli violence in decades, vast destruction and displacement across the Gaza Strip.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Tuesday a truce agreement with Israel was in sight as a brutal Israeli war on Gaza entered its 46th day. Israel continues airstrikes on civilian targets as the Palestinian death toll jumps exponentially by the hour.
Israeli troops on Wednesday stormed into Gaza’s largest hospital, searching for traces of Hamas inside and beneath the facility, where newborns and hundreds of other patients have suffered for days without electricity and other basic necessities as fighting raged outside.
On October 7, when Hamas attacked southern Israel, 23-year-old Hersh Goldberg-Polin was at a party. The Israeli American was among 3,000 revellers, many of them dancing to thuds of techno beats in the early morning hours about 5.3km (3.3 miles) from Gaza when Hamas fighters tore through the fence that separated the enclave from southern Israel and descended on the electronic music festival from across the dusty fields surrounding Kibbutz Re’im.