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Formed in 1999, the Netzah Yehuda battalion is a special men-only unit where ultra-Orthodox Jews serve
US says Israeli army units violated human rights
WASHINGTON — The US State Department has found five units of the Israeli military responsible for gross violations of human rights in individual incidents, but says they will continue to receive US military backing.All the incidents involved took place outside of Gaza before the current war.Israel took corrective action in four units, giving "additional information" on the fifth, the department says.This means all the units remain eligible for US military assistance.Washington is Israel's major military backer, supplying it with $3.8bn (£3bn) worth of weapons and defense systems per year.The announcement is the first determination of its kind for any Israeli unit by the US government.State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said five security forces units committed gross...
April 30, 2024

US says Israeli army units violated human rights

Local officials said Israel carried out further deadly air strikes overnight in the southern Gaza town of Rafah
US 'hopeful' Hamas will accept Israel's new ceasefire offer
CAIRO — The US secretary of state hopes Hamas will accept what he has called Israel's "extraordinarily generous" offer for a Gaza truce and hostage release deal.Antony Blinken was speaking as a Hamas delegation discussed the new proposal with mediators from Egypt and Qatar.A source close to the talks told the BBC they were cautiously optimistic.The proposal includes a 40-day truce in return for the release of hostages and the prospect of displaced families being allowed back to northern Gaza.It reportedly also involves new wording on restoring calm meant to satisfy Hamas's demand for a permanent ceasefire.The Hamas delegation has now left Cairo and will return with a written response to the proposal, Egypt's state-affiliated Al Qahera TV said.The Israeli government...
April 30, 2024

US 'hopeful' Hamas will accept Israel's new ceasefire offer

Secretary of State Antony Blinken
Blinken to travel to Israel, other key countries amid stalled ceasefire negotiations
WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia this week to meet with regional partners as talks between Israel and Hamas remain deadlocked, the State Department announced over the weekend.“The Secretary will discuss ongoing efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza that secures the release of hostages and how it is Hamas that is standing between the Palestinian people and a ceasefire,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement Saturday announcing Blinken’s plans to visit Saudi Arabia. “The Secretary will also emphasize the importance of preventing the conflict from spreading and discuss ongoing efforts to achieve lasting peace and security in the region, including through a pathway to an independent...
April 29, 2024

Blinken to travel to Israel, other key countries amid stalled ceasefire negotiations

More than half of Gaza's population has been displaced to Rafah. – courtesy EPA
Palestinian leader appeals to US to stop Israel's Rafah offensive
GAZA — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the US is the only country that can stop Israel from attacking Rafah, the southern Gaza city where more than a million people are taking refuge.Abbas, who runs parts of the occupied West Bank said any attack could see Palestinians flee Gaza.On Saturday Israel's foreign minister said Israel could suspend the incursion if there was a hostage deal.“The release of the hostages is the top priority for us,” Israel Katz said.Long-running talks mediated by Egypt and Qatar have largely stalled because of the gaps between the Israeli and Hamas positions, but on Sunday Hamas said it would send representatives to Cairo to give a response to the latest proposal.Hamas wants a permanent end to the war and withdrawal of all Israeli troops from...
April 28, 2024

Palestinian leader appeals to US to stop Israel's Rafah offensive

Medical aid being delivered in the northern Gaza Strip on April 6. — courtesy Reuters
UK forces may be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid
JERUSALEM — British troops could be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid via a new sea route, the BBC has learned.The US has said no American forces would go ashore and an unnamed "third party" would drive trucks along a floating causeway onto the beach.The UK is understood to be considering tasking British troops with this when the aid corridor opens next month.Whitehall sources said no decision had been made and the issue had not yet crossed the prime minister's desk.The Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Israeli army declined to comment.Britain has been closely involved in planning the sea-borne aid operation and Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said the UK continued to take "a leading role in the delivery of support in coordination with the US and other...
April 27, 2024

UK forces may be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid

Protesters hold posters calling for the immediate release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Thursday
Egyptian delegation arrives in Israel to revive deadlocked ceasefire and hostage talks
JERUSALEM — An Egyptian delegation is in Israel in an effort to advance stalled negotiations aimed at releasing hostages and implementing a ceasefire in Gaza, Egyptian and Israeli officials told CNN on Friday.The delegation is also set to continue discussions with Israeli officials on security coordination around a potential Israeli operation in Rafah, another Israeli official said. Egypt is concerned about the implications of a full-scale Israeli operation in Rafah, close to its border, where around a million displaced Palestinians have taken shelter in recent months.Despite months of talks mediated by Qatar and Egypt, Hamas and Israel have failed to reach an agreement over differences on key demands.A senior US administration official said on Thursday that there are “some indications...
April 26, 2024

Egyptian delegation arrives in Israel to revive deadlocked ceasefire and hostage talks

People gather near bodies lined up for identification after they were unearthed from a mass grave found in the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gaza Strip
Almost 400 bodies found in mass grave in Gaza hospital, says Palestinian Civil Defense
GAZA — Authorities in Gaza have concluded their search of mass graves at a hospital in the south of the strip and said they have uncovered a total of 392 bodies, including some still wearing surgical gowns.Speaking at a Thursday news conference, an official from the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza said workers have identified 165 bodies at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, following the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area earlier this month.They are still examining the remaining 227 bodies to determine their identities, Mohammed Al Mighayyer said at the news conference in Rafah. “We found three mass graves, the first in front of the morgue, the second behind the morgue, and the third north of the dialysis building,” he added.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said any...
April 26, 2024

Almost 400 bodies found in mass grave in Gaza hospital, says Palestinian Civil Defense

Palestinian fighters are seen during a military show in the Bani Suheila district on July 20, 2017 in Gaza City, Gaza
Hamas officials say group willing to disarm if Palestinian state is established
GAZA — Some Hamas officials are signaling that the militant group could give up armed struggle against Israel if the Palestinians get an independent state in territories captured by Israel in the 1967 war.The messaging suggests a softening of Hamas’ position as its fate hangs in the balance with Israel’s pummeling of the Gaza Strip, which Hamas ruled before the war. The Palestinian militant group has long called for the Jewish state to be destroyed.Basem Naim, an Istanbul-based member of Hamas’ political bureau, told CNN on Thursday that the group would agree to disarm if an independent Palestinian state was established.“If an independent state with its capital in Jerusalem, while preserving the right of return for refugees, (is created) Al Qassam could be integrated into (a...
April 26, 2024

Hamas officials say group willing to disarm if Palestinian state is established

Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday
Baby saved from dead mother's womb in Gaza dies
JERUSALEM — A baby rescued from her dying mother's womb after an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza has died, the BBC has learned.Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday.Amid chaotic scenes doctors resuscitated the baby, using a hand pump to push air into her lungs.However she died on Thursday and has been buried next to her mother after whom she was named.Baby Sabreen was among 16 children killed in two air strikes in Rafah last weekend. All were killed in a bombardment targeting the housing complex where they lived.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they were targeting Hamas fighters and infrastructure.Sabreen's mother was seven-and-a-half months pregnant when the Israeli air strike on the al-Sakani...
April 26, 2024

Baby saved from dead mother's womb in Gaza dies

Hamas has issued a proof-of-life video of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin
Hersh Goldberg-Polin: Gaza hostage's parents urge him to 'stay strong' after new video
GAZA — The parents of an Israeli-American hostage in Gaza have urged him to "stay strong" and "survive" after Hamas released a proof-of-life video.Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, is seen without his lower left arm in the short clip. It was blown off during Hamas's 7 October attack on southern Israel.The footage is undated, but he says he has been held for almost 200 days.In response, his mother and father appealed for more to be done to secure a new hostage release deal.They urged Israel, Hamas and mediators the US, Egypt and Qatar to "get a deal done" to reunite "all of us with our loved ones and end the suffering in this region".Speaking in the video posted on Hamas's Telegram account on Wednesday, Goldberg-Polin said he needed medical help and...
April 25, 2024

Hersh Goldberg-Polin: Gaza hostage's parents urge him to 'stay strong' after new video

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