Government must provide food to prisoners: Israeli Supreme Court orders
- 09-Sep-2025
In a milestone decision, the Israeli Supreme Court has ordered to provision of three meals a day to all Palestinian prisoners, who have been deliberately kept hungry. According to Al Jazeera, the decision came after two Israeli human rights groups, Gisha and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), filed a complaint, claiming that […]
Ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war to begin at 0630 GMT
- 19-Jan-2025
A ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war is to begin on Sunday at 0630 GMT, with three Israeli hostages to be released from captivity in return for a first group of Palestinian prisoners. If all goes to plan, a total of 33 hostages taken by militants during Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel will be […]
Palestinians prepare for Ramadan in the shadow of Gaza war
- 11-Mar-2024
JERUSALEM/CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza: Palestinians prepared for Ramadan in a sombre mood with heightened security measures by Israeli police and the spectre of war and hunger in Gaza overshadowing the normally festive Muslim holy month as talks to secure a ceasefire stalled. Thousands of police have been deployed around the narrow streets of the Old City in […]
Gaza truce talks expected as offensive and aid crisis rage on
- 03-Mar-2024
CAIRO: Mediators expected to reconvene in Cairo as soon as Sunday and search for a formula acceptable to Israel and Hamas for a lasting ceasefire in Gaza, sources with knowledge of the talks said, after foreign governments resorted to airdrops to aid desperate civilians in the Palestinian enclave. Israeli and Hamas delegations were expected to […]
Over 100 killed while seeking aid in Gaza, overall death toll passes 30,000
- 01-Mar-2024
CAIRO: Gaza health authorities said Israeli forces on Thursday shot dead more than 100 Palestinians as they waited for an aid delivery, but Israel blamed the deaths on crowds that surrounded aid trucks, saying victims had been trampled or run over. At least 112 people were killed and more than 280 wounded in the incident […]
Houthis to step up Red Sea strikes, use ‘submarine weapons’, leader says
- 23-Feb-2024
DUBAI/ADEN/LONDON: Yemen’s Houthis claimed responsibility for an attack on a UK-owned cargo ship and a drone assault on an American destroyer on Thursday, and they targeted Israel’s port and resort city of Eilat with ballistic missiles and drones. The statement by a Houthi representative on social media site X came shortly after the group’s leader […]
US blocks ceasefire call with third UN veto in Israel-Hamas war
- 21-Feb-2024
The United States again vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war, blocking a demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire as it instead pushes the 15-member body to call for a temporary ceasefire linked to the release of hostages held by Hamas. Thirteen council members voted in favor of the Algerian-drafted […]
IMF chief says Israel-Hamas war ‘devastating’ Palestinian economy
- 11-Feb-2024
DUBAI: The Israel-Hamas war has devastated the economies of both the embattled Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, the International Monetary Fund’s chief said Sunday, adding that only “durable peace” would improve the outlook. “The Palestinian economy’s dire outlook is worsening as the conflict persists,” managing director Kristalina Georgieva told the World Governments Summit […]
Gazans pray new year can bring peace after ‘wreckage’
- 01-Jan-2024
RAFAH, Gaza: As they turn from a year that could barely have brought more bitter hardship after 12 weeks of a pulverising Israeli assault, people in Gaza have little hope that 2024 will bring much relief. In Rafah on Gaza’s border with Egypt, which has become the biggest focal point for Palestinians fleeing other parts […]
US stresses safety for Gaza civilians as Israel unrelenting in attacks
- 15-Dec-2023
CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM: A US security envoy had talks with Israel about shifting its strategy in Gaza toward surgical operations against Hamas from a broad ground campaign, and President Joe Biden appealed for civilian lives in the Palestinian territory to be saved. With nightfall on Thursday, Israeli tanks and planes intensified bombardment of the northern Gaza neighbourhoods of […]