Gaza has had its own separate administration run by Hamas since 2007. (File) Ramallah: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas pressed the group Hamas on Wednesday to agree a Gaza deal quickly to avoid “dire consequences”, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. “We call on the Hamas movement to quickly complete a prisoner deal, to spare … Read more
“Come and get me,” Hind Rajab was heard crying desperately in an audio recording. (File) Relatives found the body on Saturday of a 6-year-old Palestinian girl who had begged Gaza rescuers to send help after being trapped by Israeli military fire, along with the bodies of five of her family members and two ambulance workers … Read more
Israel’s ongoing Gaza offensive has killed more than 21,800 people (File) Palestinian Territories: A former Palestinian Authority minister was killed on Sunday in an Israeli strike on his home in the Gaza Strip, the official Palestinian news agency and Hamas health ministry said. Youssef Salama, the 68-year-old former minister of religious affairs in the Palestinian … Read more
The Gaza war has also seen violence spiral in the occupied West Bank. (File) Palestinian Territories: Israel kept up deadly strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday despite growing international calls for a ceasefire and pleas from desperate relatives to bring home the remaining hostages. Fighting raged on in the bloodiest ever Gaza war, … Read more
Last month, 14 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid in the city of Jenin (File) Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: Israeli forces shot dead six Palestinians on Friday in a raid on a refugee camp in the north of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. The ministry did not identify those who died, … Read more
More than 15,000 people were killed in the first phase of the war say Hamas. (File) Jerusalem, Undefined: The Israeli military on Friday published a map of what it called “evacuation zones” in the Gaza Strip, after international demands to create safe areas where civilians can shelter from devastating bombardments. A truce pausing fighting between … Read more
Born in 1984, Ms Jaabis was sentenced to 11 years in prison. New Delhi: Among the 39 Palestinians released by Israel under a prisoner exchange program under a four-day truce with Hamas, brokered by Qatar, Egypt, and the United States, was a woman named Israa Jaabis who was in Israeli detention for the past eight … Read more