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Israel wants to be able to continue fighting Hamas, while the group is seeking a permanent ceasefire (file image)
‘Sustainable calm’ proposal splits Israel and Hamas
GAZA — After months of stalemate, the search for peace in Gaza has reached a critical stage. UN chief Antonio Guterres says it is a "decisive moment for the Palestinian and Israeli people and for the fate of the entire region".There seems to be common ground between most sides about the principles: a ceasefire should take place alongside the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. Various draft agreements have been drawn up, setting out a complex process of how it would all work.There is some disagreement over the detail of what should happen to whom and when and in what order. Israeli officials say, for example, that its female soldiers should be released earlier than envisaged.They also say the texts should be clearer that the first 33 hostages to be released...
May 08, 2024

‘Sustainable calm’ proposal splits Israel and Hamas

A photo provided by the Israel Defense Forces shows a tank with an Israel flag on it entering the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing on Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Rafah offensive could trigger 'another great humanitarian crisis', Borrell warns
BRUSSELS — As Israel appears to begin its long-feared assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip, the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has warned that the consequences for the hundreds of thousands sheltering there could be dire.Speaking to the press, Borrell described the blockage of a ceasefire deal that was first accepted by Hamas before being shunned by Israel as "sad news"."Hamas accepted, Israel rejected, and the land offensive against Rafah has started again," Borrell said, "in spite of all the requests of the international community, the US, the European Union member states, everybody asking Netanyahu not to attack Rafah. In spite of these warning and these requests, the attack started yesterday night."Israel appears to be pushing towards a...
May 07, 2024

Rafah offensive could trigger 'another great humanitarian crisis', Borrell warns

Both Hamas and Israel have been under pressure to accept a new ceasefire and hostage deal
Hamas says it accepts ceasefire proposal
GAZA — Hamas says it has informed Qatari and Egyptian mediators that it has accepted their proposal for a new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal with Israel."The ball is now in Israel's court," an official in the Palestinian group said.Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said the proposal accepted by Hamas was "far from Israel's basic requirements" but negotiations would continue.Earlier Israel carried out air strikes on Rafah after warning Palestinians to evacuate parts of the city.It has long threatened an offensive against Hamas hold-outs in the southern city.Tens of thousands of residents are believed to be affected by the operation and many were seen cramming into vehicles or on to donkey carts on Monday.A Hamas official called the evacuation order for...
May 07, 2024

Hamas says it accepts ceasefire proposal

A woman carries the body of a child killed following overnight Israeli strikes on Rafah, May 6, 2024
Gazans start leaving eastern Rafah as Israeli military orders evacuations
RAFAH — Gazans began leaving eastern Rafah on Monday after Israel’s military issued a call for residents there to “evacuate immediately,” raising questions over whether Israel will soon carry out its long-threatened assault on the city.During nearly seven months of war, more than 1 million Palestinians have fled to Rafah, where Hamas is believed to have regrouped after Israel’s destruction of much of the strip’s north.The city has become the central focus of the war as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces growing pressure from the extreme wing of his coalition to launch a full-scale ground operation on Rafah to destroy Hamas.It’s unclear whether the evacuation order signals a prelude to an assault, but the order came a day after Israel’s defense minister told...
May 06, 2024

Gazans start leaving eastern Rafah as Israeli military orders evacuations

The armed wing of Hamas said it was responsible for rocket fire in the Kerem Shalom border area
Three Israeli soldiers killed in Hamas rocket attack
JERUSALEM — Three Israeli soldiers have been killed in a Hamas rocket attack near one of the main crossings used to deliver aid into Gaza, Israel has said.The Kerem Shalom crossing was closed overnight by Israel following the strike.Subsequent Israeli strikes in the southern Gazan city of Rafah have reportedly killed at least 12 people.Israel's military said early on Monday it was urging Gazans sheltering in parts of Rafah to evacuate.It comes as talks aimed at securing a ceasefire deal in Gaza and the release of hostages have stalled.The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said 10 projectiles had been fired from an area near the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza, about 3.6km (2.2 miles) from Kerem Shalom.Hamas's armed wing claimed responsibility and said its target was a nearby Israeli...
May 06, 2024

Three Israeli soldiers killed in Hamas rocket attack

The attack on the border crossing comes as talks are held to broker a truce between Israel and Hamas. — courtesy Reuters
Kerem Shalom crossing closed as Hamas fires rockets from Gaza
TEL AVIV — Israel has closed the Kerem Shalom crossing with Gaza after Hamas fired rockets from within the strip, the military has said.At least 10 people were injured, some seriously, Israeli media report. The crossing is one of the few routes to get humanitarian aid into Gaza.The attack came as mediators in Egypt held talks to broker a ceasefire — and to release Israeli hostages. Israel has said it will not accept Hamas's demands to end the Gaza war.The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said 10 projectiles were fired from an area near the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza, located approximately 3.6km (2.2 miles) from Kerem Shalom.According to the IDF, they were fired from a site some 350m from a civilian shelter and were "another clear example of the systematic exploitation that...
May 05, 2024

Kerem Shalom crossing closed as Hamas fires rockets from Gaza

A view of the main headquarters of Qatari news broadcaster Al Jazeera in the capital Doha.
Israeli government blocks Al Jazeera from broadcasting
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that Al Jazeera is to be shut down in Israel.Netanyahu accused the Qatari-owned network of "incitement" and said the Cabinet decision had been unanimous.Al Jazeera condemned the move as "criminal".Foreign journalists are banned from entering Gaza and Al Jazeera staff there have been some of the only reporters on the ground.For years, Israeli officials have accused the network of anti-Israeli bias.But their criticisms of the broadcaster have intensified since the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 were taken hostage — 128 of those hostages are still unaccounted for — and among them, at least 34 are presumed dead.At least 34,683 Palestinians have been killed...
May 05, 2024

Israeli government blocks Al Jazeera from broadcasting

Al Jazeera's Gaza bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh (center) hugs his daughter during the funeral of his son, Hamza Al-Dahdouh, a reporter who was killed in an Israeli strike in southern Gaza, on January 7
Haunted by their colleagues’ deaths, journalists risk their lives to report on Gaza
GAZA — “Whoever stays until the end, will tell the story. We did what we could. Remember us.”Dr. Mahmoud Abu Nujaila scrawled these farewell words in blue ink on a whiteboard in Al-Awda Hospital, in Jabalya, on October 20, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).When Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza after the Hamas-led October 7 attacks, many local journalists did stay – risking their lives to tell the stories of their people. After more than 200 days of fighting, Israeli bombardment has turned neighborhoods into rubble. Families have been torn apart by deaths and forced displacement; the threat of starvation looms. At the same time, 129 of the 250 hostages seized from Israel by Hamas remain captive in the territory, of whom at least 33 are...
May 03, 2024

Haunted by their colleagues’ deaths, journalists risk their lives to report on Gaza

An undated photo of Shahed Awda Talla
Israeli precision-guided munition likely killed group of children playing foosball in Gaza
GAZA — The last time Mona Awda Talla saw her daughter Shahed alive, she was leaving the house to go buy her some cake, wearing pink pants. The 10-year-old stopped to play foosball with her friends beside the cake shop in Gaza’s Al-Maghazi refugee camp. Moments later, she was dead.Grief-stricken and sobbing, Awda Talla said she still can’t believe that her only daughter will never come home. A video showing the aftermath of the strike that killed Shahed captured her sprawled on the ground next to her friends, her pink pants impossible to miss.“There is no Shahed now. Every time she came in, she said, ‘Mom.’ I would say, ‘My soul, my soul,’” Awda Talla told CNN. “My soul is gone.”The scene outside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital as victims from the strike on Gaza’s...
May 03, 2024

Israeli precision-guided munition likely killed group of children playing foosball in Gaza

Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh was the head of orthopedics at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, according to a joint statement from the Palestinian Prisoners' Society and the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs
Leading Gaza surgeon Adnan Al-Bursh dies in Israeli prison
GAZA — A prominent surgeon in Gaza has died in an Israeli prison after being held for more than four months, according to Palestinian prisoners’ groups, which decried his death as part of a “systematic targeting” of health care workers.Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, head of orthopedics at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, was declared dead by Israeli prison authorities on April 19, according to a joint statement Thursday from the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society and the Commission of Detainees’ Affairs.Al-Bursh was arrested along with 10 other medical workers in December during the Israeli military ground invasion of the Jabalya refugee camp, CNN previously reported. He was taken away while treating patients in Al-Awda Hospital, according to the statement.His body has not yet been released by...
May 03, 2024

Leading Gaza surgeon Adnan Al-Bursh dies in Israeli prison

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