DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Three more Israelis held captive in the Gaza Strip are on the verge of being freed Saturday as part of a shaky ceasefire deal that requires Israel to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange. The truce that began nearly four weeks ago had been jeopardized in recent days by…
This article was originally published in French The Israeli Defence Minister has ordered the army to prepare for the “voluntary departure” of the inhabitants of the Palestinian enclave. ADVERTISEMENT Donald Trump’s statements on the Gaza Strip have not gone unnoticed: Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has already ordered the army to prepare for the “voluntary departure”…
In response, Israel has waged a massive retaliatory assault on Gaza, killing tens of thousands of people and leaving swaths of the coastal enclave in ruins. The 20-year-old Israeli soldier Berger, whose release was confirmed by the Israeli government, was serving as a lookout at the Nahal Oz military base when she was abducted during…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has ended his predecessor’s hold on sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, lifting a pressure point that had been meant to reduce civilian casualties during the U.S. ally’s war with Hamas in Gaza that is now halted by a tenuous ceasefire. In a post on his Truth Social network Saturday,…
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WASHINGTON — Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday defended Biden administration policies on Israel’s war with Hamas after a ceasefire agreement in Gaza was reached, facing protests that interrupted his final news conference at the State Department. What You Need To Know Secretary of State Antony Blinken has defended Biden administration policies on…
Washington: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said there would be “hell to pay” in the Middle East if hostages held in the Gaza Strip were not released prior to his Jan. 20 inauguration. “Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied History of the United States of America,”…
Retiring President Biden hit the shops on Black Friday and surprised onlookers by picking up a copy of a book describing the establishment of Israel as “colonialism” that’s been met with Palestinian “resistance” — an acquisition its author bemoaned was “4 years too late.” Biden, 82, left Nantucket Bookworks holding in full view of the…
Oil pumping jacks, also known as “nodding donkeys”, operate in an oilfield near Almetyevsk, Tatarstan, Russia, on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg via Getty Images Oil prices were mixed on Friday following a potential renewal of supply risk as Israel and Hezbollah traded accusations of ceasefire violations, and as a delay to…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates said Monday police arrested three Uzbek nationals for the killing of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi. The statement from the country’s Interior Ministry offered no motive for the slaying of Zvi Kogan. Kogan, 28, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who went missing on Thursday, ran a kosher grocery store in…