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Hamas accepts UN ceasefire resolution
Reuters, Published on 11/06/2024
» CAIRO - Hamas accepts a United Nations Security Council ceasefire resolution and is ready to negotiate over the details, senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters on Tuesday, adding that it was up to Washington to ensure that Israel abides by it.
Israeli forces step up bombing of Rafah as tanks try to push west
Reuters, Published on 07/06/2024
» CAIRO - With no sign of progress in mediators' efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza war, Israeli forces pounded Rafah from the air and ground overnight as tanks tried to advance further west, residents said.
Israel strikes Hamas facility based at school in Gaza
Bloomberg News, Published on 06/06/2024
» TORONTO - The Israeli military said it conducted an airstrike on a Hamas compound embedded in a school complex in Gaza that eliminated militants who took part in the deadly Oct 7 attack against Israeli civilians.
Israeli court approves ban on Al Jazeera
Published on 05/06/2024
» JERUSALEM - An Israeli court on Wednesday upheld a ban on the operations of the Qatar-backed news agency Al Jazeera that the government had imposed on national security grounds.
Gunman fires shots at US embassy in Lebanon
Published on 05/06/2024
» AWKAR - The Lebanese army said it arrested a gunman who fired shots at the United States embassy north of the capital Beirut.
Israel says more than a third of hostages are dead
Published on 04/06/2024
» JERUSALEM - Israel believes that more than a third of the remaining Gaza hostages are dead, a government tally showed on Tuesday, as the United States sought to advance their recovery under a proposal to wind down the war with Hamas.
Global investors
Oped, Postbag, Published on 04/06/2024
» Re: "Phuket targets nominees", "PM pitches Thai, US partnership", & " 'Illegal' British guide nabbed", (BP, June 1).
Protests of both despair and conflict in Gaza
Oped, Published on 30/05/2024
» These are crazy times. Biblical disturbances in nature, such as the repeated torrential rain in Dubai or the mass fish die-off in Vietnam's overheated reservoir, seem to mirror our overheated politics and social environment.
Israel foresees ‘seven more months of fighting’
Published on 29/05/2024
» Hamas probably won’t be defeated until the end of the year, Israel’s national security adviser says, underscoring the difficulty the country faces in achieving its stated aim of crushing the Islamist group in Gaza.
Red Cross calls for Gaza ceasefire
Reuters, Published on 29/05/2024
» MANILA - The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) called on Wednesday for a ceasefire and unimpeded humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, where millions of people face worsening hunger.