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...
Israeli Strikes Kill 63 Palestinians in Gaza Amid Talk of Ceasefire Deal
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...
Report: Trump’s Envoy Pressured Netanyahu To Advance Gaza Ceasefire Deal
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...
Smotrich Vows To Oppose Ceasefire Deal, Says It’s Time for Israel To ‘Cleanse’ Gaza
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...
‘Anti-Israel’ ICJ President Nawaf Salam Designated Lebanon’s PM
Just months ago the western media was panning International Court of Justice (ICJ) President Nawaf Salam as having an “anti-Israel” bias. Today he’s been concurrently named Prime Minister-Designate in Lebanon, although the media’s focus today is less on his Israel...
Israeli Attacks Kill 45 More Palestinians Across Gaza
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...
US Envoy ‘Guarantees’ Lebanon Israel Will Pullout as Deadline Looms
US Special Envoy Amos Hochstein has reportedly “guaranteed” to Lebanon that Israel will entirely withdraw from all of southern Lebanon by the 60-day deadline, as called for in the ceasefire ending the Israeli invasion in November. Hochstein is said to have provided...
Netanyahu Thanks Biden for His ‘Lifelong Support’ of Israel
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...
Israeli Attacks Kill 28 More Palestinians in Gaza Over 24 Hours
Gaza's Health Ministry said Sunday that Israeli attacks killed at least 28 Palestinians and wounded 89 over the previous 24-hour period as the daily US-backed slaughter continues. The Health Ministry's numbers only account for dead and wounded Palestinians brought to...
Israel Plans Long-Term Occupation of New Zone Inside Syria
Though Israel was very supportive of the HTS regime change in Syria last month, Tel Aviv is now using that regime change as a pretext for open-ended occupation of more Syrian territory, above and beyond the occupied Golan Heights. New reports citing unnamed senior...