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Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip flee from Hamad City on Sunday, August 11
Gaza cease-fire mediators say two-day peace talks have ended
CAIRO — Mediators to the Gaza War cease-fire talks said on Friday the two-day talks wrapped up and they aim to reconvene in Cairo next week to seal a deal to stop the fighting.In a statement on Friday, the United States, Egypt and Qatar said talks were constructive and conducted in a positive atmosphere. They presented both parties with a proposal and hope to continue working on the details of the implementation in the coming days.International diplomacy to prevent the war in Gaza from spreading into a wider regional conflict intensified earlier on Friday, with the British and French foreign ministers making a joint trip to Israel while internationally mediated cease-fire talks in Qatar.The new push for an end to the Israel-Hamas war came as the Palestinian death toll in Gaza climbed...
August 16, 2024

Gaza cease-fire mediators say two-day peace talks have ended

Footage has emerged purportedly showing cars and houses set ablaze in the village of Jit late on Thursday
Israeli settlers torch West Bank village
LONDON — Dozens of Israeli settlers have set fire to houses and cars in a village in the occupied West Bank, with the Palestinian health ministry saying at least one person has been killed.The settlers - some of them wearing masks - threw rocks and Molotov cocktails as they attacked the village of Jit, near the town of Nablus, on Thursday evening, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.The Palestinian health ministry said a local villager in his early 20s was killed and another person critically injured in the chest. The IDF said it was examining the report of the fatality.Israeli political leaders condemned the attack, pledging to punish the perpetrators. One Israeli national was detained in Jit, the IDF said.Footage has emerged on social media purportedly showing houses and vehicles set...
August 16, 2024

Israeli settlers torch West Bank village

Relatives mourn over the bodies of Palestinian family members killed during an Israeli attack on Nuseirat refugee camp, after they were brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on August 9
More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in 10 months of war in Gaza, health ministry says
GAZA — More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its war against Hamas, the health ministry in the enclave said Thursday, yet another dark milestone in the 10-month-old conflict.The ministry said 40 people had died in Gaza during the past 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths since October 7 to 40,005 – about one in every 55 people in the enclave. More than 92,401 have been injured.The health ministry does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its figures but says most of the dead are women and children. Israel said last month that it had killed more than 14,000 combatants in Gaza since the start of the war. CNN cannot independently verify the ministry’s numbers.The soaring figures give a window into the daily suffering,...
August 15, 2024

More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in 10 months of war in Gaza, health ministry says

Jayson Gillham performing in 2013
Canceling show over Gaza remarks an 'error': Melbourne orchestra
SYDNEY — The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) has admitted it made an "error" in canceling an acclaimed pianist’s performance due to comments he made on the Israel-Gaza war.On Sunday, Jayson Gillham premiered a five-minute piece called Witness, written by composer Connor D’Netto, which was dedicated to the journalists of Gaza.Before starting the recital, Gillham said Israel had killed more than 100 Palestinian journalists.The MSO subsequently removed the British-Australian pianist from an upcoming concert on Thursday, saying he put them in a "difficult situation".Now the entire concert, due to be held at Melbourne Town Hall, has been canceled due to safety concerns.The MSO says they are trying to reschedule the performance.At Sunday’s concert, which was held...
August 15, 2024

Canceling show over Gaza remarks an 'error': Melbourne orchestra

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik testifying to Congress
Columbia University president resigns after Gaza protests turmoil
NEW YORK — Columbia University President Minouche Shafik has resigned from her position amid a free speech debate over campus protests of the war in Gaza.Ms Shafik's resignation comes only a year after she took the position at the private Ivy League university in New York City, and just a few weeks before the autumn semester is due to begin.Ms Shafik is now the third president of an Ivy League university to resign over her handling of Gaza war protests.In April, Ms Shafik authorized New York Police Department officers to swarm the campus, a controversial decision that led to the arrests of about 100 students who were occupying a university building.The episode marked the first time that mass arrests had been made on Columbia's campus since the Vietnam War protests more than five...
August 15, 2024

Columbia University president resigns after Gaza protests turmoil

Beirut locals like Hiba Maslkhi are hoping cooler heads will prevail
Lebanese hold their breath as mediators scramble to avert all-out war
By Orla GuerinBEIRUT — The Middle East is in turmoil. International diplomacy is in overdrive. And for once many in Israel, Lebanon and Iran have something in common — a war of nerves.They worry and they wait for what may come next. It feels like the whole region is holding its breath.Is this the slide toward an all-out regional war? Can a ceasefire be wrestled from the ruins of Gaza? How will Iran, and its proxy militia Hezbollah, retaliate against Israel for back-to-back assassinations in Beirut and Tehran? Will they heed calls for restraint?In Lebanon, the stultifying heat of summer is overlaid by a layer of anxiety.Heart-stopping sonic booms interrupt the hum of traffic in Beirut, as Israeli warplanes break the sound barrier in the skies above.Many foreign nationals are gone,...
August 15, 2024

Lebanese hold their breath as mediators scramble to avert all-out war

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend a press conference in Tel Aviv in October
Netanyahu accuses defense minister of ‘anti-Israel narrative,’ exposing rift over war in Gaza
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lambasted his Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday and accused him of adopting an “anti-Israel narrative,” revealing a deep rupture at the top of the Israeli government as the Middle East risks spiraling into a full-scale regional conflict.Israeli media reported this week that Gallant, speaking to lawmakers in a private security briefing, had dismissed Netanyahu’s war aim of achieving “absolute victory” over Hamas as “gibberish,” branding those who say this is achievable as “heroes with war drums.”Netanyahu’s office shot back, saying Gallant’s comments jeopardize talks to release the hostages held in Gaza.“When Gallant adopts the anti-Israel narrative, he harms the chances of reaching a hostage deal,” the...
August 14, 2024

Netanyahu accuses defense minister of ‘anti-Israel narrative,’ exposing rift over war in Gaza

Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Washington wanted to deter and defend against any future attack and avoid regional conflict
US says it aims to 'lower temperature' in Middle East
LONDON — The US is aiming "to turn the temperature down" in the Middle East, the country's ambassador to the UN has said, as fears of an Iranian retaliatory attack on Israel loom.On Tuesday, Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the UN Security Council in New York the US wanted to "deter and defend against any future attack and avoid regional conflict".There are fears Iran could retaliate against Israel following July's assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran — something Israel has not taken responsibility for.US President Joe Biden suggested reaching a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza could help deter Iran from launching an attack on Israel."That's my expectation but we'll see," he said when asked by a reporter on...
August 14, 2024

US says it aims to 'lower temperature' in Middle East

Jayson Gillham performing in 2013
Pianist's Melbourne show cancelled over Gaza remarks
SYDNEY — The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) has canceled an acclaimed pianist's upcoming recital after comments he made on the Israel-Gaza war.Jayson Gillham premiered Witness at a show at the MSO on Sunday. The piece was penned by another composer as a tribute to the Palestinian press.The British-Australian was scheduled to perform again on Thursday, but the MSO has said it is reworking the program after Gillham introduced the piece by saying Israel had killed more than 100 journalists.A spokesperson for Gillham told ABC he won't comment on the decision to drop him "out of respect to the MSO and his ongoing relationship with them".Gillham — who is billed on the MSO website as "as one of the finest pianists of his generation" — was born in Australia...
August 14, 2024

Pianist's Melbourne show cancelled over Gaza remarks

Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan shows the birth certificates of his twins after learning they were killed in an air strike
Baby twins killed in Gaza as father registered births
GAZA — Newborn twins were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza while their father was at a local government office to register their birth.Asser, a boy, and Ayssel, a girl, were just four days old when their father Mohammed Abu al-Qumsan went to collect their birth certificates.While he was away, his neighbors called to say their home in Deir al Balah had been bombed.The strike also killed his wife and the twins' grandmother.“I don’t know what happened,” he said. “I am told it was a shell that hit the house.”"I didn't even have the time to celebrate them," he added.Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says 115 infants have been born and then killed during the war.According to AP news agency, the family had followed an order to evacuate Gaza City in the opening...
August 14, 2024

Baby twins killed in Gaza as father registered births

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