Gaza truce

The nearly two-month-old ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will not be complete until Israeli troops withdraw from the Palestinian territory under a peace plan backed by Washington and the UN, mediator Qatar’s prime minister said Saturday....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that he is sending a negotiating team to Qatar for talks on a truce in Gaza. However, he concurrently rejected Hamas’s earlier ceasefire proposals, deeming them “unacceptable.” “The...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that he is sending a team to Qatar for talks on a truce and hostage release in Gaza, following Hamas’s statement that it was ready to begin negotiations...

Israel’s opposition leader, Yair Lapid, announced on Friday that he met with the United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in Abu Dhabi to discuss efforts towards a ceasefire in Gaza. The...

Israel said Sunday it endorsed a proposal to temporarily extend the truce in Gaza as a bridging measure after the first phase of its ceasefire with Hamas drew to a close. The proposal, put forward by...

In accordance with a ceasefire agreement for Gaza, Israeli and Palestinian Hamas exchanged hostages and prisoners on Saturday. However, a last-minute disagreement prevented hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from returning to the destroyed northern part of...

Two weeks prior to US elections, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is returning to the Middle East on Monday to continue his push for a truce in Gaza, which he sees as a fresh opportunity...

The White House stated on Friday that progress had been made in the Cairo talks toward a Gaza truce, and it urged Israel and Hamas to proceed. The White House verified that senior official Brett McGurk...

Following Israel’s Wednesday raid on Lebanon that claimed the life of a senior militant from Fatah’s armed branch, the Palestinian movement accused Israel of attempting to “ignite a regional war.” Khalid Maqdah was murdered in an...

Ahead of fresh discussions for a ceasefire agreement in Gaza to begin next week, Israel’s prime minister called for increased pressure on Hamas, accusing the militant Palestinian organization of being “obstinate” in the talks. “Hamas, up...