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A man smiles as he is welcomed after being released from prison by Israel, in the West Bank town of Ramallah, early Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023
Israel-Hamas truce extended for a 7th day 
GAZA CITY — Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend the temporary truce in Gaza, just minutes before it was due to expire.The pause in fighting was due to expire at 05:00 GMT, but the Israeli military says it will now be extended "in light of the mediators' efforts to continue the process of releasing the hostages" taken by Hamas.Qatar, which has led international mediation efforts, has confirmed the truce between Israel and Hamas will be extended by one day until Friday.“The Palestinian and Israeli sides agreed to extend the humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip for another day,” Qatar Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said in a statement.Hamas had already announced early on Thursday the pause would continue for another day, while Israel's army said the...
November 30, 2023

Israel-Hamas truce extended for a 7th day 

Children look at photographs of kidnapped Israelis during a rally joined by hundreds in solidarity with Israel and those held hostage in Gaza, in Romania
Hamas releases 10 Israeli and four Thai hostages as efforts continue to extend truce
TEL AVIV — Israel says 10 Israeli hostages and four Thai hostages have been released by Hamas and are being transferred to Israeli territory. The move comes as international mediators are working around the clock to extend a six day truce which is due to expire Thursday morning.Israel has agreed to prolong the truce by one day for every 10 militant-held hostages who are freed. The cease-fire, which was originally set to expire on Monday, has paused the deadliest fighting between Israel and Palestinians in decades.The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday he was heading to Israel in an effort to extend the truce with Hamas.“We would like to see this pause extended,” he said on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in Brussels, highlighting how the temporary ceasefire had...
November 30, 2023

Hamas releases 10 Israeli and four Thai hostages as efforts continue to extend truce

Scenes of devastation in Gaza City's Nasr neighborhood (file). — courtesy UNICEF/Mohammad Ajjour
Israel-Palestine crisis: Gaza City a ‘ghost town’, reports UN aid agency
GAZA — “As we drove through Gaza City it was like a ghost town; all the streets were deserted,” said Thomas White, Director of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza.“The impact of heavy airstrikes and shelling was so visible. Roads are riddled with craters, complicating aid deliveries.”Wednesday marks the sixth and final day of a truce between Hamas and Israel that was facilitated by Qatar.Humanitarians have urged the warring sides to support repeated international calls to extend the pause in fighting, which has facilitated the reported release of at least 85 hostages by Hamas, and of more than 180 Palestinian prisoners by Israel.The pause has also enabled humanitarian actors, primarily the Egyptian and Palestinian Red Crescent Societies and UN agencies, to “enhance” desperately needed aid...
November 29, 2023

Israel-Palestine crisis: Gaza City a ‘ghost town’, reports UN aid agency

Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
Kuwait's emir hospitalized, stable: KUNA
KUWAIT — Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah was hospitalized on Wednesday's morning due to an emergency health problem, as reported by Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA).The latest update showed that his condition is stable, the Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, said.
November 29, 2023

Kuwait's emir hospitalized, stable: KUNA

Hundreds stand in the queue for cooking gas in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.
Frustration as hundreds queue for cooking gas in Gaza
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Away from the hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, let's remind ourselves of the humanitarian situation in Gaza.In Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, there are people as far as the eye can see. It’s supposed to be a "safe" city compared with the devastated north, its population bursting with the displaced.Hundreds are in the queue for cooking gas and some people say they have been waiting here three days, sleeping on the side of the street in the cold, in the hope of being able to cook something hot.As the hundreds wait, some sitting on their gas cylinders, tempers fray."Where are all Arabs and Muslims?" a middle-aged woman shouts angrily as she waits in line for gas. "Where are all the defenders of human rights? You've left the...
November 29, 2023

Frustration as hundreds queue for cooking gas in Gaza

Hamas hands over ten Israeli and two foreign hostages on fifth day of truce
TEL AVIV — Israel said Hamas handed over ten Israeli and two foreign hostages on the fifth day of a pause in fighting in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli prison service also reported that 30 Palestinians — 15 teenage boys and 15 women — were released from prison at 20:00 GMT.A truce between Israel and Hamas was extended on Tuesday by two more days due to allow the expected release of other Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.The Israeli hostages were reportedly flown to hospitals in Israel where they were reunited with their families.The agreement — mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States — first came into force on Friday.Mediators met in Qatar to try to extend the pause beyond Wednesday. For the first time since it began, Israel and Hamas traded accusations of a serious...
November 29, 2023

Hamas hands over ten Israeli and two foreign hostages on fifth day of truce

A child cries over the loss of a family member at Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Younis. — courtesy UNICEF/Abed Zaqout
Gaza doctors ‘terrified’ of deadly disease outbreak as aid teams race to deliver
GAZA — As the pause in fighting in Gaza appeared to enter a fifth day on Tuesday, UN humanitarians warned that aid deliveries needed to multiply immediately to save the lives of the injured and stem the risk of a deadly disease outbreak that has left doctors “terrified”.Priorities include transporting fuel to the north of the war-torn enclave, so that it can be used to power hospitals, provide clean water and maintain other vital civilian infrastructure.Such services have been massively impacted by weeks of Israeli bombardment in response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacres in southern Israel that left some 1,200 dead and around 240 taken hostage.Gazan health authorities have reported that more than 15,000 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in attacks to date.In an update...
November 28, 2023

Gaza doctors ‘terrified’ of deadly disease outbreak as aid teams race to deliver

So far, 150 Palestinians have been released from Israeli prisons.
Fourth set of hostages freed as Gaza truce extended by two days
RAMALLAH — Just hours before the four-day truce was due to expire om Monday, Qatar said Israel and Hamas have agreed to a two-day extension, raising the prospecct of a longer halt to their destructive war.For a fourth successive night, a batch of Israeli hostages has been exchanged for a group of Palestinian prisoners under the temporary truce.The 33 Palestinians were freed from Israeli jails after midnight local time. Earlier Hamas had released 11 Israeli captives, dual nationals of France, Germany or Argentina.The UN has used the lull in fighting to increase urgent aid deliveries to Gazans but has warned the consignments are a drop in the ocean.Gazans have been using the pause in fighting to get supplies and move across the territory – in many cases to return to their homes, and to...
November 28, 2023

Fourth set of hostages freed as Gaza truce extended by two days

An UNRWA shelter in Zawaida, Central Gaza. — courtesy UN News/Ziad Taleb
Gaza: Vital aid reaches shattered north as halt to fighting enters fourth day
GAZA — Desperate Gazans in the north of the enclave had their first sip of clean water in weeks on Monday as a continuing pause in fighting enabled broadening aid access to the Strip, UN humanitarians said.“This aid barely registers against the huge needs of 1.7 million displaced people,” a statement from the UN Secretary-General’s office said on Monday, highlighting his call for a full humanitarian ceasefire.“The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is getting worse by the day.”And as the UN emergency relief coordination office, OCHA, reported that people in the south were queuing for kilometers to obtain cooking gas and resorting to burning window frames and doors for cooking, it added that the four-day humanitarian pause agreed upon by Israel and Hamas has been “largely...
November 27, 2023

Gaza: Vital aid reaches shattered north as halt to fighting enters fourth day

The US Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Mason
Ballistic missiles fired toward US destroyer after it responded to attack on tanker
WASHINGTON — Two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi rebel-controlled Yemen toward a US warship in the Gulf of Aden, after the US Navy responded to a distress call from a commercial tanker that had been seized by armed individuals, the US military said Sunday.The tanker, identified as the Central Park, had been carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid when its crew called for help that “they were under attack from an unknown entity,” the US Central Command said in a statement.The USS Mason, a guided-missile destroyer, and allied ships from a counter-piracy task force that operates in the Gulf of Aden and off the coast of Somalia responded to the call for help and “demanded release of the vessel” upon arrival, Central Command said.“Subsequently, five armed individuals debarked...
November 27, 2023

Ballistic missiles fired toward US destroyer after it responded to attack on tanker

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