The Hamas announced on July 6, 2026 that it is relinquishing its rule of the Gaza Strip. Is Hamas doing this to preserve its political survival and military capabilities? There is consensus after the
by Our Correspondent in Doha U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steven Witkoff, has reportedly forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a Gaza plan that he had previously rejected.
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Israel’s security cabinet has formally endorsed a ceasefire agreement with Hamas, signaling a significant step toward ending the 15-month conflict. The agreement, which includes provisions for the release of 98 hostages held
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Israel, going back decades, has played a duplicitous game. It signs a deal with the Palestinians that is to be implemented in phases. The first phase gives Israel what it wants — in this
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by Our Correspondent in Doha In a major diplomatic breakthrough, incoming U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, brokered with the assistance of Qatar and Egypt.
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From early December 2024 to early January 2025, the body temperature of eight babies fell below any acceptable amount and they froze to death. This condition is known as hypothermia. The most
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“Israel today is dynamiting the edifice of the global norms built after 1945.” Pankaj Mishra (The Shoah after Gaza – London Review of Books – 21.3.2014) In the second decade of the
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It has become background noise. We know it is happening, but we can almost forget that it continues at a barbaric rate. The United Nations deputy special coordinator for Palestine, Muhannad Hadi,
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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip expressed hope for a ceasefire in their besieged coastal enclave as soon as possible, following the truce that took effect between Israel and Lebanon on Wednesday. “I
More At 10 p.m. on the night of October 28, 2024, the Israeli air force struck a five-story building in Beit Lahiya, in the northern area of Gaza. Northern Gaza has been pummeled by the
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An autopsy of Yahya Al-Sinwar, the leader of the Hamas movement who was recently killed in Gaza by Israeli forces, indicates that he went without food for three days before his death,
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