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Israel indicts five reservists over alleged prisoner abuse

JERUSALEM: The Israeli military prosecutor has filed indictments against five reservists, alleging severe abuse and...

Published 19 Feb, 2025 05:18pm

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Hamas to free 6 Israeli Gaza hostages, hand over 4 bodies this week

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Hamas said Tuesday that it would hand over all six living Israeli hostages due for release under...

Published 18 Feb, 2025 08:29pm

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Qatar says Palestinians to decide Gaza future

DOHA: Qatar, a key mediator in the Gaza conflict, said on Tuesday that Palestinians – not outsiders – must decide...

Published 18 Feb, 2025 06:22pm

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Israel to begin negotiations on second phase of Gaza ceasefire deal

JERUSALEM: Israel will begin negotiations on the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, including an exchange of...

Published 18 Feb, 2025 05:23pm

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Arab League summit on Gaza postponed to March 4: Egypt

CAIRO: An extraordinary Arab League meeting on Gaza, initially set for next week, has been postponed to March 4,...

Published 18 Feb, 2025 05:14pm

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Palestinian detainee says he was tortured in Israeli detention centre

KHAN YOUNIS: Palestinian medic and ambulance worker Tarek Rabie Safi, freed from an Israeli jail as part of a...

Published 17 Feb, 2025 08:37pm

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Israeli military says it killed Hamas official in southern Lebanon

BEIRUT: The Israeli military on Monday killed a Hamas leader in southern Lebanon’s Sidon area, it said in a...

Published 17 Feb, 2025 06:34pm

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Gazans must return home, EU plans to tell Israel

BRUSSELS: The EU plans to tell Israel next week that Palestinians uprooted from their Gaza homes should be ensured a...

Updated 17 Feb, 2025 07:15pm

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Three Israeli hostages released in Gaza as ceasefire holds

CAIRO/JERUSALEM: Israeli hostages Iair Horn, Sagui Dekel-Chen and Sasha (Alexander) Troufanov arrived at a release...

Updated 15 Feb, 2025 07:42pm

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Hamas expected to name Israeli hostages it will free this weekend

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Hamas was expected Friday to name three hostages it will release this weekend as part of a...

Published 14 Feb, 2025 11:01am

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Yemen’s Houthis say they will attack if US, Israel try to displace Gazans

DUBAI/ADEN: Yemen’s Houthis will immediately take military action if the US and Israel try to forcibly displace...

Published 13 Feb, 2025 08:45pm

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Hamas says committed to truce, Israeli hostage release timeline

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Hamas said Thursday it was committed to honouring a truce with Israel that has come under severe...

Published 13 Feb, 2025 06:38pm

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Israel seen as likely to attack Iran by midyear, Washington Post reports

U.S. intelligence warns that Israel is likely to launch a preemptive attack on Iran’s nuclear program by midyear,...

Updated 13 Feb, 2025 08:24pm

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China says ‘Gaza belongs to the Palestinians’, opposes ‘forced displacement’

BEIJING: China Wednesday reiterated its opposition to what it called “forced displacement” of Palestinians when...

Updated 12 Feb, 2025 07:30pm

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Qatar, Egypt ‘working intensively’ to resolve Gaza truce ‘crisis’: Palestinian source

GAZA CITY: Mediators Qatar and Egypt were “working intensively” to resolve the crisis surrounding the Gaza ceasefire...

Published 12 Feb, 2025 05:14pm

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Senior Arab officials warn that Trump Gaza plan would inflame Middle East

DUBAI: US President Donald Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and resettle Palestinians, which has drawn global...

Published 12 Feb, 2025 04:23pm

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Israeli military calls up reservists as concern over Gaza ceasefire mounts

JERUSALEM/DUBAI: Israel’s military has called up reservists in preparation for a possible resumption of fighting in...

Published 12 Feb, 2025 04:08pm

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Ceasefire is only way to bring Israeli hostages home, Hamas official says

CAIRO: A Hamas official said on Tuesday Israeli hostages can be brought home from Gaza only if a fragile ceasefire...

Published 11 Feb, 2025 04:13pm

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Hamas says Trump warning ‘further complicates’ Gaza truce

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: A senior Hamas leader said Tuesday that US President Donald Trump’s warning for the group to...

Published 11 Feb, 2025 01:36pm

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Egypt tells US top diplomat Rubio that Arab states reject Trump’s Gaza plan

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday that Arab states...

Published 11 Feb, 2025 08:22am

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Trump says Hamas should free all hostages by midday Saturday or ‘let hell break out’

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Hamas should release all hostages held by the militant...

Published 11 Feb, 2025 08:18am

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Palestinians have no right of return under Gaza plan: Trump

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said Palestinians would have no right of return to Gaza under his US takeover...

Published 10 Feb, 2025 09:12pm

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Israeli ceasefire talks delegation returns from Qatar

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: An Israeli delegation that flew to Doha for talks on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire at the...

Published 10 Feb, 2025 08:04pm

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Arab nations slam Netanyahu remarks on Palestinian state on Saudi land

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries Sunday condemned remarks by Israel’s prime minister who appeared to...

Published 09 Feb, 2025 07:12pm

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Hamas says Israel withdraws from key Gaza road

GAZA CITY: A Hamas official said Israeli troops on Sunday completed their withdrawal from a strategic road bisecting...

Published 09 Feb, 2025 05:08pm

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Health ministry in Gaza says over 48,000 killed in war

GAZA CITY: The health ministry in Gaza Strip said on Saturday that at least 48,181 people had been killed in the...

Published 08 Feb, 2025 08:01pm

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Hamas releases three Israeli hostages as Gaza ceasefire holds

More than 47,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli in its 15-month-long aggression in Gaza, with number of dead rising every day

Updated 08 Feb, 2025 10:50pm

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Hamas accuses Israel of ceasefire breaches ahead of next hostage-for-prisoner exchange

CAIRO/JERUSALEM: Hamas accused Israel of multiple breaches of their ceasefire agreement on Friday, a day before the...

Published 07 Feb, 2025 09:18pm

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Hamas says Trump remarks are ‘declaration of intent to occupy’ Gaza

Calls urgent Arab summit to confront displacement of Palestinians from Gaza

Updated 06 Feb, 2025 09:56pm

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Health ministry in Gaza says war death toll at 47,583

GAZA CITY: The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Thursday that the death toll from the war with Israel in the...

Published 06 Feb, 2025 06:49pm