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Footage circulated online showed a public execution and other displays of force by Hamas fighters in Gaza
Trump demands Hamas disarm as group moves to assert control with public execution
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has threatened to disarm Hamas "violently" amid moves by the group to reassert control over the Gaza Strip, targeting what it called "collaborators".Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trump said if Hamas failed to disarm within "a reasonable period of time" then "we will disarm them". He did not say when he expects the group to surrender its weapons.His comments came as footage circulated online showing a public execution and other displays of force by Hamas fighters in Gaza since the US-brokered ceasefire began last week.The execution — which BBC Verify geolocated to a junction in central Gaza City — follows Hamas's pledge to crush "lawlessness" in the Strip.Other verified clips have shown armed men wearing insignia identifying them as...
October 15, 2025

Trump demands Hamas disarm as group moves to assert control with public execution

Women walk past a banner with photographs of hostages who were captured by Hamas and held in the Gaza Strip, in Jerusalem, 7 October 2025
Israeli military says Hamas handed over wrong body in hostage release
TEL AVIV — One of the bodies handed over by Hamas on Tuesday was not of a hostage held in Gaza since 7 October 2023 attacks, the Israeli military said on Wednesday.The botched release, which happened as part of phase one of a US-brokered peace deal, threatens to increase tensions over the fragile truce, which came into effect earlier this week, bringing an end to two years of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.Four bodies were handed over by Hamas on Monday, just hours after the last of the 20 living hostages was released. Four further bodies were also returned on Monday, as per the terms of the agreement, which demands that the remains of all 28 deceased hostages be handed over to Israel.“Following the completion of examinations at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine, the fourth...
October 15, 2025

Israeli military says Hamas handed over wrong body in hostage release

Red Cross vehicles transport the bodies of deceased hostages who had been held in Gaza
Hamas returns four more bodies of hostages, Israeli military says
TEL AVIV — Hamas has returned the bodies of four more deceased hostages, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said, with identification work underway.The Red Cross retrieved the remains in coffins and handed them over to the Israeli military late on Tuesday night.The transfer came after Israel warned it would restrict aid into Gaza until Hamas returned the bodies of all 28 deceased hostages. The Palestinian armed group handed back 20 living and four deceased hostages on Monday.The remains of 45 deceased Palestinians who had been held in Israel were returned to Gaza on Tuesday, the Red Cross said in a statement.The first four deceased hostages released by Hamas on Monday have been identified by Israel as Daniel Peretz, 22; Yossi Sharabi, 53; Guy Illouz, 26 and Bipin Joshi, 23, a Nepalese...
October 15, 2025

Hamas returns four more bodies of hostages, Israeli military says

Posters with the images of Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris are displayed in front of the National Assembly in Paris in May
Iranian court hands lengthy jail terms to two French citizens on spying charges
PARIS — An Iranian court sentenced two French nationals to heavy prison terms on Tuesday after convicting them of spying for France and Israel, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.The ruling comes just a week after Paris and Tehran signaled progress in negotiations for their release, according to Reuters.Cecile Kohler and her partner Jacques Paris are the only two French citizens being held in Iran and have been detained since 2022. An 18-year-old French-German cyclist arrested this year, Lennart Monterlos, was released last week after a court acquitted him of espionage charges.Without specifically naming the defendants, the court sentenced one French citizen to six years in prison for spying on behalf of France, five years in prison on charges of conspiracy to commit a crime...
October 15, 2025

Iranian court hands lengthy jail terms to two French citizens on spying charges

Relatives of hostages whose bodies are still in Gaza Strip call for their release at Hostages Square, in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday
Fury grows in Israel over delayed release of deceased hostages
TEL AVIV — Just hours after the 20 remaining living hostages were released by Hamas and brought back to Israel on Monday, the speaker of the Israeli parliament took off his yellow ribbon pin, an emblem of solidarity and an omnipresent reminder of the nation’s commitment to securing the captives’ return.As he turned to thank US President Donald Trump – who had arrived earlier to thunderous applause in the Knesset for brokering the ceasefire deal – Amir Ohana said he was “honored to take it off.”Ohana’s pin was given to him by the father of one of the newly released hostages.Yet, the celebratory moment felt deeply inappropriate to some of those still waiting for their loved ones to return, some of whom were sitting in the very same room.“It was disrespectful – no...
October 15, 2025

Fury grows in Israel over delayed release of deceased hostages

People greet freed Palestinian prisoners as they arrive in Gaza after their release from Israeli prison, outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday
Tears and cheers in West Bank and Gaza as nearly 2,000 Palestinians freed from Isaeli jails
JERUSALEM — Israel freed almost 2,000 Palestinians from its jails on Monday as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal, prompting emotional scenes of families reunited with loved ones, some of whom had spent decades behind bars.More than 1,700 of those released were detainees who had been held without charge by Israeli forces in Gaza since the start of the war, which began with the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023. Another 250 prisoners had been serving long sentences for convictions in serious crimes, including murder. Some alleged they had been regularly beaten while in Israeli prisons after their release on Monday.By late Monday, nearly 40 buses carrying the detainees moved slowly through large crowds at the Nasser medical complex in southern Gaza.The convoy was preceded by...
October 14, 2025

Tears and cheers in West Bank and Gaza as nearly 2,000 Palestinians freed from Isaeli jails

A prisoner holds his hands in the air after release
Palestinians celebrate return of prisoners freed by Israel
GAZA CITY — Hundreds of freed Palestinian prisoners and detainees have been welcomed with tears and screams of joy as they were released by Israel to be reunited with their families in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.The release involved about 250 prisoners who had been convicted of crimes including murder and deadly attacks against Israelis — and about 1,700 detainees from Gaza who had been held by Israel without charge.As prisoners exited a Red Cross bus in Ramallah, many draped in traditional Keffiyeh scarves, they looked pale and gaunt, with some struggling to walk.They were freed as part of an exchange in which 20 Israeli hostages, and the remains of some deceased hostages, were released by Hamas."He is ready to embrace freedom," said Amro Abdullah, 24, who was waiting for his...
October 13, 2025

Palestinians celebrate return of prisoners freed by Israel

Freed hostage Eitan Mor's emotional reunion with family
'Long and painful nightmare finally over,' Trump tells Israel's parliament
JERUSALEM — US President Donald Trump has told cheering Israeli lawmakers that "the long and painful nightmare is finally over", after helping to broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.During the first such address by a US president since 2008, Trump said the day would mark "the moment that everything began to change, and change very much for the better" in the Middle East.Trump's address to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, comes on the day that the last 20 living hostages held in the Palestinian enclave were released by Hamas.Israel is releasing 250 Palestinian prisoners and more than 1,700 other Palestinians detained during the two-year military operations in Gaza.During a whirlwind trip to the region, Trump will also attend a peace summit in Sharm El-Sheikh,...
October 13, 2025

'Long and painful nightmare finally over,' Trump tells Israel's parliament

The Israeli foreign ministry released footage of its forces detaining Swedish activist Greta Thunberg from one of the boats
Greta Thunberg and other activists detained as Israeli military intercepts Gaza-bound aid ships
JERUSALEM — Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and other passengers aboard a fleet of Gaza-bound aid ships have been detained by the Israeli military after more than a dozen vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) were intercepted, sparking global outcry.The flotilla is trying to break Israel’s 18-year blockade of Gaza and get aid into the war-ravaged enclave using ships that set sail from ports across the Mediterranean. As of 3:30 a.m. local time Thursday, 30 GSF boats were still sailing and were about 46 nautical miles from Gaza, while 13 boats had been intercepted, GSF said.Flotilla organizers labelled Israel’s interception of the ships “an illegal attack” on humanitarians, while Israel said the activists were “not interested in aid, but in provocation.”The first...
October 02, 2025

Greta Thunberg and other activists detained as Israeli military intercepts Gaza-bound aid ships

Displaced Palestinian children search for firewood and plastic in a landfill beside their tent camp where they are taking shelter, Khan Younis, Gaza, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025
Activists claim Israeli vessel approached and disrupted Gaza flotilla
JERUSALEM — The Global Sumud Flotilla carrying activists and humanitarian aid to Gaza, attempting to break through Israel's naval blockade, said it was approached by what one of its members described as an Israeli military vessel in the early hours of Wednesday.The ship, according to activist Thiago Avila and others, damaged communication systems on some of the boats within the fleet, including the lead boats Alma and Sirius, and performed “very dangerous maneuvers”.In a collaborative post on Avila's Instagram page, a large vessel can be seen circling the flotilla’s fleet. It is unclear whether the ship the activist accused of the attack was indeed Israeli, as visibility was limited.Euronews reviewed the video and could not independently verify the vessel's...
October 01, 2025

Activists claim Israeli vessel approached and disrupted Gaza flotilla

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