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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.
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...
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.
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...