Israeli warplanes pounded Gaza on Wednesday evening as furious mourners buried the wife and child of Hamas’s top military commander, baying for revenge as eight days of calm exploded into bloodshed. Mohammed Deif, who has topped Israel’s most wanted list for more than a decade, escaped the strike with Hamas saying[…]
Israel has said rocket fire from Gaza has “made continuation of talks impossible,” trading blame with Palestinian negotiators over the collapse of the ceasefire. Spokesman Mark Regev responded to Palestinian negotiator Azzam al-Ahmed’s charge that Israel had thwarted the talks that broke down on Tuesday after Israel recalled its negotiators[…]
Hamas said Wednesday that an Israeli air strike killed the wife and child of its Gaza military chief, as a temporary ceasefire went up in smoke and Cairo truce talks froze. “The wife of the great leader was martyred with his daughter,” in a strike Tuesday night, Hamas’s exiled deputy[…]
Egypt late Monday announced a 24-hour extension in talks between Israel and Hamas aimed at salvaging a long-term arrangement that would allow reconstruction of the Gaza Strip following a monthlong war that killed more than 2,000 people. The announcement came just minutes before a temporary truce was set to expire at[…]
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are poised to resume indirect talks with Egyptian mediators on reaching a more permanent ceasefire before a current truce expires at midnight on Monday. The Egyptian government persuaded both sides late Wednesday to adhere to a new five-day ceasefire, extending an earlier three-day agreement in order to[…]
Hamas has said it will not sign a peace deal with Israel that fails to meet the demands of its people. Khalil al-Haya, the Palestinian group’s negotiator at the talks in Egypt seeking to stop fighting in Gaza, said on Thursday they were negotiating with a difficult side “versed in[…]
Israel and Gaza rebels were holding their fire Thursday morning after a new truce got off to a shaky start, with night-time Palestinian rocket fire followed by Israeli air strikes. The Israeli army said that there had been no fighting for several hours, since Israeli air raids into Gaza finished[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat- As the sounds of Israel’s destructive war machinery and armored tanks receded in a cloud of dust following the mayhem and massacres committed by its troops during relentless bombings, Gaza faces a daunting task of rebuilding lives and institutions. Operation Protective Edge, a deceptive military campaign[…]
Gaza rebels fired a barrage of rockets at Israel on Friday as Palestinian factions at talks in Cairo refused to extend a 72-hour ceasefire in the devastating month-long conflict. But negotiations for a new truce were still ongoing in the Egyptian capital, as residents in southern Israel took shelter from[…]
A leader of the Palestinian group Hamas has said there will not be a renewal of the Gaza ceasefire that ends on Friday unless Israel meets some of its demands. Ismael Radwan told Al Jazeera: “The truce will not be renewed; it cannot be renewed without real achievements. As we[…]
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