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Federal prosecutors accused a man in Louisiana of participating in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel, then traveling to the U.S. on a fraudulent visa, according to newly unsealed court documents. Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al-Muhtadi, 33, was allegedly part of the National Resistance Brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the…
A team of Turkish disaster response specialists is stationed at the Egyptian border, awaiting Israeli authorisation to enter Gaza and help in search and recovery operations, a Turkish official told AFP on Friday. The 81-member team from Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) is equipped with specialised search-and-rescue tools, including life-detection devices and trained…
By Steven Scheer and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Aid trucks rolled into Gaza on Wednesday and Israel resumed preparations to open the main Rafah crossing after a dispute over the return of the bodies of dead hostages that had threatened to derail the fragile ceasefire deal with Hamas. Israel had threatened to keep Rafah shut…
Miriam Adelson was namechecked by Donald Trump at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in a shoutout to the Republican megadonor who has been central to the U.S. president’s Israel policy. Trump told Israeli lawmakers on Monday that Adelson had equivocated when asked whether she loved the United States or Israel more and paid tribute to…
The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s “baseless, irresponsible, and shameful accusations” in his speech to the Israeli Knesset. In his speech, Trump had hailed the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran earlier this year, saying “many of Iran’s top terrorists” have been “extinguished from this earth”. Trump also…
The Egyptian president told a summit of world leaders Monday that US President Donald Trump’s Mideast proposal represents the “last chance” for peace in the region and reiterated his call for a two-state solution, saying Palestinians have the right to an independent state. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi speaks during a summit to support ending…
By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Former Israeli hostage Noa Argamani — whose desperate cries on the back of a motorcycle became one of the most haunting images of the Hamas October 7, 2023, attack — was reunited on Monday with her newly freed boyfriend, Avinatan Or. A government video showed Or, 32, first hugging and…
Updated on: Oct 13, 2025 12:51 pm IST The first seven hostages were handed over during the first phase of the hostage release on Monday. Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances move towards the eastern Gaza Strip from Khan Yunis as Israel and Hamas begin their hostage release (AFP) The hostage release between Israel and Hamas has…
The main change to the list is centered around two security prisoners who will be swapped for Hamas-linked terrorists who aren’t facing life sentences. Government ministers participated in an urgent telephone vote to approve amendments to the list of terrorists and security prisoners to be released during the first phase of the hostage deal, Kan…