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Palestinian children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 5
Hamas responds to ceasefire proposal but accuses Israel of ‘stalling’
BEIRUT — Hamas said Tuesday there could be no “exchange of prisoners” before a permanent ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as it responded to proposals from Egyptian and Qatari mediators.“The security and safety of our people will not be achieved except through a permanent ceasefire, the end of the aggression, [Israel’s] withdrawal from every inch in Gaza...and the entry of aid to our people in Gaza is our utmost priority,” Hamas senior leader Osama Hamdan told a news conference in Beirut.“Any prisoner exchange will not be completed except after the completion of all this.”Hamas’ response comes as negotiators race to reach a deal that would pair a pause in fighting with the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan....
March 06, 2024

Hamas responds to ceasefire proposal but accuses Israel of ‘stalling’

Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz arrives at the US State Department ahead of a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington on March 5, 2024
Biden officials deliver a tough message on Gaza to Netanyahu’s chief political foe
WASHINGTON — When top Biden administration officials conveyed their frustrations over the “unacceptable and unsustainable” situation in Gaza to Benny Gantz, they were delivering their message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief political foe.Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Gantz, a member of the Israeli war cabinet, as the US seeks to ratchet up pressure on the Netanyahu government to allow more aid into Gaza. Those calls have gone largely unheeded as the humanitarian crisis deepens and ceasefire talks have yet to reach a breakthrough.Gantz’s decision to travel to Washington, DC, was not sanctioned by the Israeli government, meaning he was not accompanied by the Israeli ambassador in his meetings, according to an...
March 06, 2024

Biden officials deliver a tough message on Gaza to Netanyahu’s chief political foe

Destruction surrounding the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City last month
UN agency accuses Israel of detaining, coercing staffers into false confessions about ties to Hamas
TEL AVIV — The UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Monday accused Israel of detaining and torturing some of its staffers, coercing them into making false confessions about the agency’s ties to Hamas.“Some of our staff have conveyed to UNRWA teams that they were forced to (make) confessions under torture and ill-treatment. These false confessions were in response to questioning about relations between UNRWA and Hamas and involvement in the 7 October attack against Israel,” UNRWA spokeswoman Juliette Touma said in a statement.Israel has accused at least 12 staffers from the UN Relief and Works Agency of being involved in the October 7 terrorist attacks and has alleged that about 12% of UNRWA’s 13,000 staffers are members of Hamas or other Palestinian militant groups. Israeli...
March 05, 2024

UN agency accuses Israel of detaining, coercing staffers into false confessions about ties to Hamas

The fighting has reduced much of Gaza to rubble and many of the victims were women and children
Israel-Gaza war: Kamala Harris urges more aid for starving Gazans
WASHINGTON — US Vice President Kamala Harris says people in Gaza "are starving" and has urged Israel to "significantly increase the flow of aid" there.She said, "There must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks", which would "get the [Israeli] hostages out".Earlier, Israel did not attend truce talks in Egypt, saying Hamas was not giving a list of hostages still alive.Hamas told the BBC it was unable to do so because of the Israeli bombing."Practically it is impossible to know who is still alive," said Dr Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official.Hamas's team and mediators from the US and Qatar are understood to be in Egypt's capital Cairo for the planned negotiations.Pressure for a ceasefire deal intensified after...
March 04, 2024

Israel-Gaza war: Kamala Harris urges more aid for starving Gazans

Pressure is growing for a ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas. — courtesy EPA
Israel demands names of hostages still alive for deal on new ceasefire
CAIRO — Mediators and Hamas have arrived in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for talks on a new ceasefire, as Israel is reported to be demanding reassurances on the hostages' fate before attending.An unnamed US official has said Israel has "more or less accepted" the deal.But Israeli media said Hamas is refusing to say which of its hostages are still alive, so Israel will not attend.The US said the six-week pause would see the release of more Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.Pressure for a deal intensified after Thursday's incident outside Gaza City in the north of the territory where at least 112 people were killed as crowds rushed an aid convoy.Hamas has accused Israel of shooting at civilians as they attempted to get food. Israel has denied this, and on Sunday...
March 03, 2024

Israel demands names of hostages still alive for deal on new ceasefire

Last year, Somali authorities executed at least 16 people believed to be al-Shabab or Islamic State fighters, according to local rights groups
Moroccan IS fighters sentenced to death in Somalia
MOGADISHU — A military court in Somalia has sentenced six Islamic State fighters from Morocco to death.The men will be executed by a firing squad if their appeal, which they have one month to file, is unsuccessful."They came to Somalia to support Isis [IS} and destroy and shed blood," the court's deputy chairman, Col Ali Ibrahim Osman, told VOA Somali.The men's lawyer said they had been misled into joining IS and were seeking to be deported to Morocco.It is the first time authorities in the semi-autonomous Puntland region have charged or sentenced foreigners for joining IS.The military court also gave an Ethiopian and a Somali 10-year prison sentences each, while freeing another Somali defendant due to insufficient evidence.One of the prosecutors told BBC Somali that...
March 01, 2024

Moroccan IS fighters sentenced to death in Somalia

Voters fill out their ballots in the parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, on Friday
Polls open in Iran elections as calls for resistance vote fall on deaf ears
TEHRAN — Iranians started voting on Friday in legislative elections that analysts say could see a record low turnout as Iranians grapple with an ailing economy, growing political distrust and a quashed protest movement.Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who called on citizens to vote as an act of resistance against the nation’s enemies, cast his ballot in Tehran, according to live video broadcasted by state media.Iran was scrambling to boost turnout ahead of the elections, but calls on voters to show up to the polls may be falling on deaf ears.Some 15,000 candidates are competing for the 290-seat parliamentary election, and 144 are running for the 88 seats of the Assembly of Experts, which has the power to appoint the Supreme Leader, the highest political authority in Iran.Khamenei...
March 01, 2024

Polls open in Iran elections as calls for resistance vote fall on deaf ears

Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia said it had received dead and wounded from western Gaza City
UN chief urges probe into deadly Gaza aid convoy incident
NEW YORK — The head of the UN has called for an independent investigation into the deaths of more than 100 Palestinians during an aid delivery in Gaza.At least 117 people were killed and more than 760 injured on Thursday as they crowded around aid lorries.UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the incident and said "desperate civilians" need urgent help.Hamas accused Israel of firing at civilians, but Israel said most died in a crush after it fired warning shots.On Thursday international criticism of Israel mounted with French President Emmanuel Macron saying civilians had been "targeted by Israeli soldiers".The EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borell, described the incident as "totally unacceptable carnage".Reacting to the incident, Guterres...
March 01, 2024

UN chief urges probe into deadly Gaza aid convoy incident

Videos posted on social media showed casualties loaded onto emptied aid lorries and a donkey cart
Over 100 killed as Israeli forces fire on crowd waiting for aid in northern Gaza
GAZA — More than 100 Palestinians are reported to have been killed while waiting for aid to be delivered in northern Gaza.The Hamas-run health ministry blamed Israeli forces, and Palestinian media cited medical sources saying Israeli troops fired at the crowd.An Israeli military source said troops opened fire as they believed soldiers were "endangered".An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) statement also said dozens were killed being trampled and run over by trucks.A journalist in Gaza City told the BBC that Israeli tanks fired on a crowd who had come to get supplies. The Israeli military says it has no knowledge of shelling in the area and that the incident is under review.Graphic videos posted on social media show the dead in Gaza City loaded onto emptied aid lorries and a donkey...
February 29, 2024

Over 100 killed as Israeli forces fire on crowd waiting for aid in northern Gaza

The majority of those killed are thought to be women and children
More than 30,000 killed in Gaza, health ministry says
GAZA — More than 30,000 Palestinians have now been killed in Gaza since 7 October, the Hamas-run health ministry says.That number equates to about 1.3% of the 2.3 million population of the territory - the latest grim marker of the awful toll of this war.The ministry says that the majority of those killed were women and children.Its figures do not differentiate between civilians and fighters when identifying those killed.In its daily update on Thursday, the ministry said 81 people had been killed in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 30,035.The actual number of dead is likely to be far higher as the count does not include those who have not reached hospitals, among them thousands of people still lost under the rubble of buildings hit by Israeli air strikes.More than 70,000 injured...
February 29, 2024

More than 30,000 killed in Gaza, health ministry says

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