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The United States will keep attacking Yemen’s Houthis until they end attacks on shipping, the US defence secretary said on Sunday (Mar 16), as the Iran-aligned group signalled it could escalate in response to deadly US strikes the day before. The airstrikes, which the Houthi-run health ministry said killed at least 53 people, are the biggest…
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Israeli airstrikes pounded Gaza and killed more than 400 people, Palestinian health authorities said on Tuesday (Mar 18), in an onslaught that ended weeks of relative calm after talks to secure a permanent ceasefire stalled. Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas each accused the other of breaching the truce, which had broadly held since January, offering…
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Israel says it is stopping all goods and supplies into Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office claimed Hamas was refusing to “accept the Witkoff outline for continuing the talks, which Israel agreed to”. Under a plan put forward by US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, the first phase of the ceasefire deal would continue through…
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The needs in Gaza, where the ceasefire is holding, are overwhelming, humanitarians said on Monday, adding that continuing Israeli operations in the West Bank are still producing casualties. “As the UN and its humanitarian partners continue to deliver life-saving assistance across the Gaza Strip, the scale of needs remains overwhelming, requiring urgent and sustained support,”…
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Donald Trump must remember that the only way to bring home Israeli prisoners is to respect the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, a senior Hamas official has said. Last night, Trump said the Israel-Hamas ceasefire should be cancelled if all the hostages being held in Gaza are not released by noon on Saturday. This came…
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President Trump has used this language before. In the days before he became president, he said that if the hostages held by Hamas were not released by his inauguration on 20 January, “all hell will break out in the Middle East”. They were not all released and many remain in captivity. But he managed to…
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The Gaza ceasefire will end if Hamas does not return Israeli hostages by midday on Saturday, Israel’s prime minister has said. It comes after Hamas said it would postpone Saturday’s planned release, accusing Israel of violating the terms of the ceasefire. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of a return to “intense fighting” and said his cabinet were in unanimous agreement following a…
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President Donald Trump said Friday there have been “no deliberations” about his claims that the United States will seek to take over Gaza, but insisted that the region “will be given to us by Israel.” “It’s been perceived [that] the United States would view it as a real estate transaction, where we will be an…
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, accused the Biden administration of financially supporting the Hamas militants. Cruz took to social media Thursday to share a Daily Caller story that said more than $1.3 billion in taxpayer funds under former President Joe Biden aided groups that sponsored or committed terrorism. “USAID secretly poured uncountable hundreds of millions of dollars toward…
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Demonstrators gathered across the USA on Wednesday to protest actions taken by recently inaugurated US President Donald Trump. Thousands of demonstrators gathered in cities across the U.S. on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s early actions, decrying everything from the president’s immigration crackdown to his rollback of transgender rights and a proposal to forcibly transfer…
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We heard earlier from the UK environment secretary, who said the two-state solution is the only path to peace. Foreign secretary David Lammy has reiterated that view, telling reporters this morning “we’ve always been clear in our belief that we must see two states”. “We must see Palestinians live and prosper in their homelands in…
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Palestinians should be able to return to their homes and “rebuild their shattered lives” in Gaza – that’s the view of the UK government, according to the environment secretary Steve Reed, who has told us peace can “only be based on a two-state solution”. Speaking to the media, he said Palestinians have faced “a living nightmare…
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During yesterday’s news conference between Donald Trump and his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, the U.S. president talked about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, where he repeats some of his earlier statements about wanting to permanently relocate them. He says Gaza “has been a symbol of death and destruction for so many decades” and it…
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Hundreds of Palestinians began gathering in Wadi Gaza on Saturday hoping to cross back to their homes into the northern part of the Strip. The office of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’ has said that displaced Palestinians will not be allowed to return to northern Gaza until the civilian hostage Arbel Yehoud is released by…
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Mediators are currently making progress on the issue of allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to return back to the north. Up until now, the Israeli tanks are still blocking the coastal road where people were supposed to walk into the north, and we heard some warning gunfire in the last hour or so from…
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Four female Israeli soldiers were released by Hamas on Saturday in the second hostage release of the Gaza ceasefire deal. Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy and Liri Albag were handed to the Red Cross in Gaza City. In exchange 200 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel are set to be freed. The four women were…
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