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Israel marks Oct 7 anniversary as talks held to end Gaza war

ISRAEL marks the second anniversary of the Oct 7, 2023 attack on Tuesday, as Hamas and Israeli negotiators hold indirect talks to end the two-year war in Gaza under a US proposed peace plan.

Smoke billows following an Israeli strike in Gaza City, on Oct 2, 2025, as pictured from Nuseirat in central Gaza.

Hamas says ready for peace talks, Trump urges Israel to halt Gaza bombing

HAMAS said on Friday it was ready to start immediate talks on freeing the Israeli hostages it holds and ending the Gaza war, welcoming US President Donald Trump’s call for Israel to stop bombing the P...

Protesters gather outside the United States embassay to protest against the arrest of South African MP Mandla Mandela and other activists onboard various boats off Gaza, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Oct 3 2025.  Hamas said that it had agreed to release all of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza as well as the bodies of those who had died, in response to the peace proposal introduced by President Donald Trump earlier this week.

Hamas agrees to release Israeli hostages but sets conditions

HAMAS agreed to release the last of the hostages from its 2023 attack on Israel, but said the rest of US President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan would be subject to negotiation.

Palestinian families leave the eastern sector of the Gaza Strip on the border with Israel following Israeli airstrikes.

Israeli strikes kill 326 in Gaza, collapsing ceasefire with Hamas

This is in response to the group’s refusal to release hostages and rejection of ceasefire proposals

Palestinians waiting to be allowed to return to their homes in northern Gaza; the vast majority of Gaza’s people have been displaced, often multiple times, by the Gaza war that began after Hamas’s attack on southern Israel on Oct 7, 2023.

Trump floats plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza as fragile truce enters second week

US President Donald Trump floated a plan to “just clean out” Gaza, and said he wants Egypt and Jordan to take Palestinians from the territory, as a fragile truce between Israel and Hamas aimed at perm...

Released hostage Romi Gonen embraces loved ones at Sheba Medical Centre in Ramat Gan, Israel, after being held in Gaza since the deadly Oct 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, Jan 19, 2025.

First Israeli hostages freed as Gaza truce begins

THREE Israeli hostages released on Sunday from Gaza were reunited with their families, on the first day of a long-awaited truce aimed at ending more than 15 months of war that has ravaged the Palestin...

What will come next in Gaza remains unclear in the absence of a comprehensive agreement on the post-war future of the enclave, which will require billions of dollars and years of work to rebuild.

Gaza ceasefire deal takes effect and fighting halts after delay

A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip took effect on Sunday (Jan 19) after a nearly three-hour delay, pausing a 15-month-old war that has brought devastation and seismic politica...

People attend a vigil on the eve of the anniversary of the Hamas attacks in Tel Aviv, Israel, Oct 6, 2024.

Ahead of attack anniversary, Netanyahu says: ‘We will win’

ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed victory and said his country’s military “completely transformed reality” in the year since Hamas’s Oct 7 attack, which has left the country fi...

Mourners gather by the grave of killed US-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin whose body was recovered with five other hostages in Gaza, during the funeral at Givat Shaul cemetery in Jerusalem, Israel on Sept 2, 2024. The six were among 251 hostages seized during Hamas's Oct 7 attack that triggered the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas.

US unseals ‘terrorism’ charges against Hamas leaders

THE United States has charged leaders of the armed Palestinian group Hamas with a raft of “terrorism” offences, federal court documents unsealed on Tuesday revealed.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (pictured) and Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani in a telephone call stated that “no party in the region should take actions that would undermine efforts to reach a deal,” a US State Department statement said.

Blinken, Qatar PM warn all sides not to ‘undermine’ Gaza truce talks: US

US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken and Qatar’s prime minister on Wednesday warned all sides not to undermine Gaza ceasefire talks set to open in the Gulf nation, in a veiled warning to Iran, Hamas a...