Update on January 16, 2025, at 8:01 am EST: Netanyahu delayed the cabinet vote on the ceasefire deal on Thursday, claiming Hamas reneged "on parts of the agreement reached with the mediators." However, Hamas reiterated its commitment to the deal that was announced...
CBS News reported Tuesday that both Israel and Hamas have agreed "in principle" to a draft hostage and ceasefire deal that could be finalized this week. The report, which cited US, Arab, and Israeli officials, said if the final details are worked out and the Israeli...
On Tuesday, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir threatened to quit the government if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a hostage and ceasefire deal that's being negotiated in Qatar and called for Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to join him....
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a speech at the Atlantic Council where he said Hamas has likely recruited as many fighters as it has lost in Gaza. Before making the comments about Hamas, Blinken was disrupted by a protester who called him the...
Amid reports that a Gaza ceasefire deal is advancing, Israeli strikes continued to pound the Strip on Tuesday, killing at least 63 Palestinians since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera early Wednesday morning. Among the dead were two children killed by an Israeli...
On Monday, President Biden delivered a speech at the State Department where he defended his foreign policy record despite the raging proxy war in Ukraine and Israel's genocidal war in Gaza. "The United States is winning the worldwide competition compared to four years...
President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, leaned hard on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to get him to agree to compromises to advance a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, Israeli media reported on Monday. Witkoff, a real estate...
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday expressed strong opposition to a hostage and ceasefire deal with Hamas amid reports negotiations are making progress and said it was time for Israel to "occupy and cleanse" the entire Gaza Strip. "The emerging deal...
The Israeli military continued its relentless bombing of Gaza on Monday, killing at least 45 more Palestinians across the Strip, medical sources told Al Jazeera. Israeli strikes on Monday included heavy attacks on Gaza City, including a strike on a...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with President Biden on Sunday and thanked the American leader for his "lifelong support" for the state of Israel, the White House said in a readout of the call. "The Prime Minister thanked the President for his lifelong...
