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U.S. President Joe Biden, right, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on July 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the White House Thursday to discuss the war in Gaza — and the possibility of securing a…
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Image used for representative purpose only | Photo Credit: Reuters Nine months pregnant, Ola Al-Kurd could not wait to hold her baby and bring new life to Gaza during a war which has killed over 39,000 fellow Palestinians and razed much of the enclave. That special moment never came. An Israeli airstrike smashed into the…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on July 24, 2024 in Washington, DC. | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza and condemned American protesters in a scathing…
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Tents are set up as temporary shelters for displaced Palestinians on a street covered with stagnant wastewater in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Polio has been detected in samples of sewage | Photo Credit: AFP The World Health Organization said on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, that there was a high risk of the…
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A damaged sign is pictured at the headquarters of UNRWA, following an Israeli raid, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City, July 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Israeli parliament gave preliminary approval on Monday to a bill that declares the main United Nations relief organisation for Palestinians a terrorist organisation and proposes to…
A military vehicle patrols at the Israel-Gaza border, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, as seen from Israel, on July 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel declared dead on July 22 two more of its hostages being held in Gaza, as talks to secure a ceasefire deal that would include the release of some 120 captives…
Israeli security forces close-off a main entrance to Huwara town in the occupied West Bank following reported attacks by Israeli settlers on July 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stubborn opposition to a Palestinian state does not deter the European Union’s Middle East peace envoy from believing a two-state solution…
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Separate Israeli airstrikes killed at least six people in central Gaza, including two children at a home and at least one United Nations worker, Palestinian hospital officials and first responders said, even as stalled cease-fire talks between Israel and Hamas show signs of renewed momentum. Four out of every five people in Gaza — nearly…
Israeli forces carried out deadly strikes on Tuesday on southern Gaza and battled militants after issuing an evacuation order which a UN agency said would impact 2,50,000 Palestinians. Witnesses reported intense bombing and shelling around Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s main city, from which Israeli troops withdrew in early April after a devastating months-long battle. A…
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that “intense” fighting against Hamas militants in the southern Gaza city of Rafah is nearly over, more than eight months into the devastating war. “The intense phase of the fighting against Hamas is about to end,” Netanyahu told Israel’s Channel 14 network, without providing a clear timeline. “It…
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