The start of a short-term ceasefire to facilitate the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israel will not start until Friday, an Israeli official said on Wednesday. "The contacts on the release of our hostages are advancing and continuing...
Martin Griffiths, the UN's emergency relief coordinator, said in an interview on Tuesday that the Israeli onslaught in Gaza is the worst humanitarian crisis he's ever seen, even worse than the Killing Fields in Cambodia, where the Khmer Rouge killed over one million...
There has been concern within the Biden administration that a pause in fighting in Gaza will give journalists the opportunity to expose more of the atrocities Israel has been committing, POLITICO reported on Tuesday. The concern was related to the hostage deal that...
The Israeli cabinet voted early Wednesday morning to approve a Qatar-brokered hostage deal with Hamas that will free at least 50 Israelis in exchange for a four-day ceasefire and other steps. According to Axios, the first phase of the deal will involve Hamas releasing...
A former member of the Obama administration's National Security Council was caught on camera harassing a food truck vendor in New York City, saying that killing 4,000 Palestinian children "wasn't enough." Stuart Seldowitz was identified online after videos of him...
POLITICO reported Tuesday that the US has been sharing with Israel the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza in an attempt to prevent strikes on the sites. But Israel has been bombing them anyway. The information has included GPS coordinates of a number of medical...
Lebanese officials have said that two journalists were killed by Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, bringing the total number of journalists killed since October 7 to 53. The journalists worked for the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen. The media outlet said its...
A Hamas leader and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both signaled on Tuesday that they might be close to reaching an agreement on Hamas releasing hostages in exchange for a short ceasefire. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas's senior political leader based in Qatar, said...
Israeli Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel proposed the "voluntary resettlement" of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to other countries around the world in an op-ed for The Jerusalem Post published Sunday. Gamliel said one option for Gaza's future is to "promote the...
Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to President Biden, is in Israel to hold talks with Israeli officials on preventing a major war with Lebanon as fighting between Israeli and Hezbollah forces across the Israel-Lebanon border continues to escalate, Axios reported on...
