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The freed Palestinian teenagers were welcomed in Ramallah by hundreds of well-wishers, some waving Palestinian flags, others carrying the flag of Hamas
39 Palestinian teenagers released from Israeli prisons on third day of Israel-Hamas truce
RAMALLAH — A bus carrying Palestinian teenagers released from Israeli prisons arrived in the center of the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday evening local time.Earlier, Israel’s Prison Service confirmed it had released 39 prisoners and detainees from a total of seven Israeli prisons (six in Israel and one in the occupied West Bank), as part of a deal between Israel and Hamas that also saw the militant group release hostages today.The group released Sunday included boys aged 18 and younger; two are 15 years old, and one, the youngest released, is 14.They were welcomed in Ramallah by hundreds of well-wishers, some waving Palestinian flags, others carrying the flag of Hamas.Some were detained without knowing their charge: Sixteen of those released were serving sentences, mostly for...
November 27, 2023

39 Palestinian teenagers released from Israeli prisons on third day of Israel-Hamas truce

Palestinians walk through destruction in Gaza City on November 24, as the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas took effect.
Israel and Hamas express interest in extending the truce
GAZA CITY — As the truce between Hamas and Israel enters its fourth and final day Monday, both parties have discussed the possibility of extending it, a move which has the support of key nations, including the US and Qatar.In a statement released Sunday evening, Hamas said it wants “to extend the truce after the four-day period ends, through serious efforts to increase the number of those released from imprisonment as stipulated in the humanitarian ceasefire agreement.”The agreed upon truce already includes a provision for an extension of one extra day for every ten hostages Hamas is ready to free.While Israel's war cabinet discussed the possibility of an extension on Sunday evening, a source told CNN, those conditions for one, as outlined in the initial truce, remain...
November 27, 2023

Israel and Hamas express interest in extending the truce

None of the aid deliveries to Gaza would have been possible without the Palestinian and Egyptian Red Crescent Societies, OCHA noted (file photo). — courtesy UNICEF/Eyad El Baba
UN confirms more aid entering Gaza as humanitarian pause holds for second day
GAZA — Sixty-one trucks hauled aid to northern Gaza on Saturday – the largest number since Oct. 7, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.The freight included food, water and emergency medical supplies. Eleven ambulances, 3 coaches and a flatbed were delivered to Al Shifa hospital to be used to assist with evacuations.Also on Saturday, another 200 trucks were dispatched from Nitzana, with 187 of them successfully entering Gaza by 19:00 local time.In addition, 129,000 liters of fuel crossed into Gaza, said the UN humanitarian affairs office, known as OCHA.None of these deliveries would have been possible without the Palestinian and Egyptian Red Crescent Societies, the UN office noted, paying tribute to the actions of the multiple parties involved in the...
November 26, 2023

UN confirms more aid entering Gaza as humanitarian pause holds for second day

Fatima Amarneh was among the Palestinian prisoners released by Israel. — courtesy Reuters
Israel’s Palestinian prisoner release a ‘window of hope’ in West Bank
WEST BANK — By nightfall, the road in front of the Beitunia checkpoint had the feel of a restive festival, the sting of politics and tear gas mingling in the air.Small campfires flickered in front of a handful of green Hamas flags; there were many more Palestinian ones.The return of 39 Palestinians from Israeli prisons to their homes in the occupied West Bank was never just going to be a family affair.Israel’s jailing of large numbers of people on security grounds is widely seen by Palestinians as a tool of the occupation.Charges range from murder and violent attacks on Israelis to stone-throwing. Many Palestinians say Israel is criminalizing acts of resistance by an occupied people.A quarter of the population of the West Bank has spent time in an Israeli jail; it is a shared...
November 25, 2023

Israel’s Palestinian prisoner release a ‘window of hope’ in West Bank

Two men share drinking water in the Gaza Strip. — courtesy UNRWA/Ashraf Amra
UN delivers more aid into Gaza on first day of humanitarian pause
GENEVA — The United Nations was able to scale up delivery of humanitarian assistance into and across Gaza during the humanitarian pause that went into effect on Friday following an agreement reached this week between Israel and Hamas.Gaza has a population of over two million, with the UN agency that assists Palestine refugee, UNRWA, hosting more than a million displaced people in 156 of its installations across the enclave.The UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Friday that 200 trucks were dispatched from Nitzana, a town in Israel, to the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.From there, 137 trucks of goods were offloaded by the UNRWA reception point in Gaza, making it the biggest humanitarian convoy received since the start of hostilities on 7 October.Additionally,...
November 25, 2023

UN delivers more aid into Gaza on first day of humanitarian pause

A displaced Palestinian man, who fled his house due to Israeli strikes, carries his belongings as he makes his way back to his home, during a temporary truce between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Novemeber 24, 2023. REUTERS/Saleh Salem
Gaza truce begins after seven weeks of war, sets stage for release of dozens of hostages
GAZA — A truce between Israel and Hamas appears to be taking effect on Friday despite a barrage of Israeli artillery fire and sirens warning of rockets from Gaza in the minutes after it was due to begin at 7 a.m. local time.CNN journalists in the southern Israel city of Sderot said the sounds of heavy weapons fire stopped around 7:18 a.m. (12:18 a.m. ET). They heard what sounded like small arms fire inside Gaza about 20 minutes later, but artillery fire, airstrikes and rockets appear to have stopped.The four-day pause, the first in a 48-day-old war, set the stage for the exchange of dozens of hostages held by militants in Gaza in return for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.The truce-for-hostages deal was reached in weeks of intense indirect negotiations, with Qatar, the United States...
November 24, 2023

Gaza truce begins after seven weeks of war, sets stage for release of dozens of hostages

Families and friends of hostages held in Gaza call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bring them home, during a demonstration in Tel Aviv on November 21, 2023
Qatar says Israel and Hamas to start four-day truce Friday morning
GAZA/DOHA — A truce between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas will begin on Friday morning, with civilian captives set to be released from Gaza later in the day, a spokesman for Qatar’s foreign ministry has said.The agreement, the first in nearly seven weeks of brutal war, would begin at 7 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) and involve a comprehensive ceasefire in north and south Gaza, ministry spokesman Majed Al-Ansari told reporters in Doha.Aid would start flowing into Gaza, Israeli hostages would be freed at 4 p.m. and it was expected that Palestinians would be released from Israeli jails as part of the deal.“Those hostages who are from the same families will be put together within the same patch,” Al-Ansari said.“Every day will include a number of civilians as agreed to...
November 23, 2023

Qatar says Israel and Hamas to start four-day truce Friday morning

An ambulance arrives at Al-Shifa hopsital in Gaza City on November 2, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. (Photo by Dawood NEMER / AFP) (Photo by DAWOOD NEMER/AFP via Getty Images)
Israel arrests Al-Shifa Hospital director
GAZA CITY — The director of Gaza's largest hospital was arrested by Israeli forces, according to a spokesperson for the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health.Other doctors were also arrested alongside Al-Shifa Hospital director Mohammed Abu Salmiya, spokesperson Ashraf Al-Qidra said Thursday.CNN could not independently verify the arrests and has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for comment.Abu Salmiya was reportedly arrested while evacuating with a World Health Organization convoy, an ER doctor inside Al-Shifa told Al-Jazeera News, citing doctors accompanying the director. — CNN
November 23, 2023

Israel arrests Al-Shifa Hospital director

People look at pictures of Hamas' hostages during a demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel, calling for their release on November 11.
Israel says no hostage release will happen before Friday
DOHA/TEL AVIV — Qatar said on Thursday morning that it will announce “in the next few hours” when the truce between Israel and Hamas is set to begin, but Israel said no hostages will be released before Friday.A diplomatic source told CNN that the truce is likely to begin Friday, with the earliest time being midnight local time (5 p.m. ET).Previously, the expectation had been that the first releases and the pause in fighting would take place as early as Thursday.The first hostages were initially expected to be released as early as Thursday. The start of the agreed temporary truce in fighting is also delayed until Friday, an Israeli official told CNN.Israel’s Supreme Court has rejected a legal challenge to the Gaza hostage deal.The talks on how to implement the hostage deal between...
November 23, 2023

Israel says no hostage release will happen before Friday

Extensive destruction is seen in the Gaza strip following Israeli airstrikes on Oct. 10, 2023. — courtesy WHO
Gaza: UN welcomes deal for pause in fighting, hostage-release pact
NEW YORK — A deal on Wednesday to release hostages taken during the Hamas terror attack on Israel has been welcomed by UN chief António Guterres, who added that the UN stood ready to “maximize” the positive humanitarian impact of the agreement.“This is an important step in the right direction, but much more needs to be done,” Guterres said via a statement from his spokesperson Farhan Haq.The top UN official leading efforts to secure a lasting peace in the Middle East, Tor Wennesland, echoed those comments and also welcomed the announced 96-hour “humanitarian pause” in war-shattered Gaza.“This pause must be used to its fullest extent to facilitate the release of hostages and alleviate the dire needs of Palestinians in Gaza.”The development comes as UN humanitarians...
November 22, 2023

Gaza: UN welcomes deal for pause in fighting, hostage-release pact

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