Anxiety in Gaza and Israel as Cease Fire Nears End of First Phase

Americans' views of Israel, Ukraine, Mexico more divided than ever: Gallup

A new Gallup poll shows a deepening partisan divide in the US over Israel, Ukraine, and Mexico, with Republicans viewing Israel and Ukraine more favorably, and Democrats holding more favorable ...

The Hill - 3d

Israel refuses entry to EU lawmaker accused of promoting boycotts of the country

Israel says it denied entry to European Union lawmaker Rima Hassan, accusing her of promoting boycotts of the country

ABC News - 3d

Why Tensions Are Rising Over Israel’s Operations in the West Bank

Amid the most intensive Israeli operations in the area in decades, Palestinians fear entrenched displacement and a return to military control in some towns.

The New York Times - 3d

Hamas Official Expresses Reservations About Oct. 7 Attack on Israel

Mousa Abu Marzouk, the head of Hamas’s foreign relations office, said he would not have supported such an attack on Israel had he known of the devastation it would wreak on Gaza.

The New York Times - 3d

Israel and the Palestinians: The Road to 7th October — the path to peace not taken

Three-part BBC documentary pinpoints the political misjudgments that paved the way for the horrors of the last two years

Financial Times - 3d

Israel Strikes Syria Hours After Country’s Leader Demands Withdrawal

The attacks in southern Syria are part of a new policy aimed at protecting what Israel calls its “security zone” in the region. Syria’s new government has condemned that policy.

The New York Times - 2d

Israel and Hamas agree on new exchange, leaving fragile ceasefire intact

Israeli and Hamas officials say they have reached an agreement to exchange the bodies of dead hostages for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners

ABC News - 2d

Bibas family laid to rest as thousands line the streets of Israel

Thousands of people lined the streets of Israel to pay their respects as the funeral procession of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons made its way to a cemetery.

NBC News - 1d

Bibas family buried in Israel as Hamas says ceasefire salvaged

Yahoo News - 1d

Berlin's Brandenburg Gate lit up to honour Bibas hostages in Israel

Yahoo News - 1d

Israel and Hamas exchange to take place after ceasefire impasse resolved

Yahoo News - 1d

Israel receives bodies of four more Israeli hostages from Hamas

Yahoo News - 1d

Israel receives bodies of four more hostages from Hamas

Israel has received the bodies of four more hostages and released around 600 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in exchange, the Israeli government and Palestinian groups said early Thursday.

NBC News - 1d

Who Are the Deceased Hostages Hamas Said It Handed Over to Israel?

The release came after several days of negotiations following Israel’s refusal on Saturday to exchange some Palestinian prisoners it had pledged to free.

The New York Times - 1d

Israel mourns dead hostages as ceasefire with Hamas runs out

Dozens of captives remain in Gaza but warring sides have not agreed to lasting truce ahead of Saturday deadline

Financial Times - 1d

Israel receives bodies of 4 deceased hostages in exchange: Israeli PM

Hamas has transferred the bodies of four dead hostages to the Red Cross, an Israeli security official confirmed.

ABC News - 1d

Israel's refusal to withdraw from narrow strip of desert could threaten ceasefire

Israel’s refusal to withdraw from a narrow strip of desert on Gaza's border with Egypt, as called for in the ceasefire with Hamas, could threaten the truce

ABC News - 22h

Bodies of four hostages identified after latest Hamas-Israel exchange

Yahoo News - 21h

Israel frees dozens more Palestinians after four hostages identified

Yahoo News - 15h

Israel's army underestimated Hamas before Oct. 7 attack, probe finds

The findings could pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to launch a widely demanded broader inquiry to examine the political decision-making that preceded the Oct. 7 terrorist attack.

CBS News - 13h

Israel’s Military Lays Out Its Oct. 7 Hamas Attack Failures

The highly anticipated public findings, the first from its internal inquiries into the devastating Hamas-led attack, do not apportion individual responsibility, though officials said that may come ...

The New York Times - 15h

The Guardian view on Gaza’s future: the ceasefire and hostage deal must not fizzle out | Editorial

As Donald Trump persists with a monstrous proposal to remove Palestinians, the immediate need is to prevent fresh conflict. . The pain and damage wreaked in the last 16 months will reverberate ...

The Guardian - Feb. 20

Mohammed bin Salman wants an alternative to Trump’s Gaza plan – but one that most benefits Saudi Arabia | Madawi al-Rasheed

The crown prince sees Hamas as a regional threat, and may propose a deal that risks sidelining Palestinians. Saudi Arabia has suddenly experienced a diplomatic awakening after lukewarm engagement ...

The Guardian - Feb. 21

We asked the people of Gaza how they saw their future – this is what we found | Nils Mallock

Support for Hamas is declining – no obvious alternative has emerged, but our poll shows there are reasons to be hopeful. Nils Mallock is research fellow at the XCEPT research group at King’s ...

The Guardian - Feb. 21

As Truce Talks Stall, Fears Mount for Israeli Hostages in Gaza After 500 Days

“I was in Gaza. I survived. Keith survived. Others will not,” said Aviva Siegel, who with her husband was taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023. She urged the Israeli government to secure the release of ...

The New York Times - Feb. 21

Long-term effects of Gaza war could quadruple Palestinian death toll, warn UK doctors

Surgeons who worked in Gaza fear disease, malnutrition and eradication of healthcare will reverberate for decades . British doctors who worked in Gaza during the war have issued dire predictions ...

The Guardian - 6d

Hamas to free 6 more Israeli hostages from Gaza Strip in latest step of ceasefire

Hamas is set to free six more Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip

ABC News - 6d

One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This by Omar El Akkad review – Gaza and the sound of silence

This powerful new book examines the moral contradictions of the west and asks what liberal values mean in the face of such brutal and sustained obliteration of human life. Like many people, I have ...

The Guardian - 5d

I was displaced from my home in Gaza — now Trump wants me gone for good

Even if Trump doesn’t order American soldiers to occupy and expel us, as he first said he would, he has effectively given Israel approval to do so.

The Hill - 4d

Freed Israeli hostage held onto faith to get through months of captivity in Gaza

An Israeli hostage freed in the current ceasefire between Israel and Hamas said faith sustained her during her captivity, and she used the few means that were available to her to observe Judaism

ABC News - 2d

Despite his critical condition, the Pope continues daily calls with Gaza’s embattled Catholic parish

Despite his condition, Pope Francis has upheld a tradition he began at the start of the war in Gaza, making nightly calls to the strip's only Catholic parish.

NBC News - 2d

6 babies have frozen to death in Gaza as displaced people shelter in tents: Medics

Palestinian medics say at least six infants have died from hypothermia in the last two weeks in the Gaza Strip

ABC News - 2d

Pope Francis, despite his critical condition, continues daily calls with Gaza's embattled Catholic parish

Yahoo News - 2d

‘They forced me to stand for hours in the cold, arms raised and shackled’: eight Gaza doctors on their Israeli prison ordeal

Senior doctors and surgeons describe the torture, starvation, humiliation and denial of medical care they endured while being held without charge. More than 160 Gazan medics held in Israeli ...

The Guardian - 2d

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