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15.01 / 06:37

Target security War country peace Houthi response to Yemen airstrikes may be ‘limited,’ ex-U.S. envoy says

Yemen in response to the Iran-backed rebel group’s attacks on ships in the Red Sea may be limited, a former U.S. diplomat says.Frank Lowenstein, who served as the U.S.

10.01 / 17:59

Citi security President War hospital Antony Blinken meets Palestine prez, discusses post-war reforms

Antony Blinken spoke to President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday about reforming the Palestinian self-rule government, as part of US efforts to rally the region behind postwar plans for Gaza that also include concrete steps toward a Palestinian state. Blinken says he has secured commitments from multiple countries in the region to assist with rebuilding and governing Gaza after Israel's war against Hamas, and that wider Israeli-Arab normalization is still possible, but only if there is «a pathway to a Palestinian state.»

07.01 / 16:13

UPS Target Discover War reports prevention Blinken flags risks of wider war to Arab partners as Israel marches south; clash with Hamas enters 4th month

Gaza Strip, let's take stock of the situation. The Israeli military has reportedly signaled that they have wrapped up major combat in northern Gaza, saying it has completed dismantling Hamas' military infrastructure there. Israeli defense forces spokesperson Rear Adm.

07.01 / 14:46

UPS security Southern War country prevention Western diplomats seek to prevent Gaza spillover after three months of war

By Ari Rabinovitch, Simon Lewis and Nidal al-Mughrabi

05.01 / 06:13

UPS wellness Refugees President War peace Is a two-state solution possible after the Gaza war?

America’s president, in one of his many public statements about the nearly month-long war in Gaza. Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister, has made similar comments; so has Emmanuel Macron, the French president. An emergency meeting of the Arab League last month ended with a call for “serious negotiations" towards a two-state solution.

04.01 / 17:54

Reuters Fighting Southern Refugees War reports Israel focuses assault on southern Gaza amid concern over wider war

The dead included nine children, an official told Reuters.

03.01 / 15:43

Election Southern Death Banner country information shock Tears, defiance in Palestinian village of slain Hamas deputy Saleh al-Aruri

mourners broke into sobs as they huddled around defiant family members of slain Hamas deputy Saleh al-Aruri in his village in the occupied West Bank Wednesday, a day after his death in Lebanon. Aruri, exiled from his village Arura since he was released from an Israeli jail in 2010, was killed in a drone strike on a southern Beirut suburb that Lebanese officials said was carried out by Israel.

02.01 / 17:43

Target Fighting Southern show social reports Top Hamas official Saleh Arouri killed in Beirut blast: Report

Lebanon's Hezbollah group says top Hamas official Saleh Arouri was killed on Tuesday in an explosion in a southern Beirut suburb. Arouri, one of the founders of Hamas' military wing, had headed the group's presence in the West Bank. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had threatened to kill him even before the Hamas-Israel war began on October 7. Israeli officials declined to comment.

01.01 / 07:26

Citi Provident love show country rock hospital Can the Palestinian Authority control Gaza if Hamas is ousted?

invade Gaza, one question keeps coming up: who should take control of it after they have rooted out Hamas—if, indeed, they are able to do so? Many, especially Israel’s allies, are looking to the Palestinian Authority (PA), which was thrown out of Gaza by Hamas almost two years after Israel withdrew its troops and dismantled its settlements there in 2005. But the PA seems to be in no position to take charge of the coastal enclave.

31.12 / 05:26

Gap economy President country reports travelers Needing labor, Israel recruits workers from India, Sri Lanka

Workers from South Asia are heading to Israel, whose need for labor has become more pressing since the Hamas-led attack in October. Israel's government closed crossings from the West Bank, cutting off thousands of Palestinians from work, and many of the foreign workers whom Israel relies on to operate its farms and construction industry left. Most of the roughly 30,000 foreign agricultural workers in Israel were from Thailand, dozens of whom were kidnapped or killed on Oct.

26.12 / 18:28

Citi Action Southern country Israeli minister hints at retaliatory actions taken in Iraq, Yemen, Iran

Yoav Gallant hinted on Tuesday that the country had retaliated in Iraq, Yemen and Iran for attacks carried out against it as the war with Hamas-led Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip widens to other areas of the region. «We are in a multi-front war and are coming under attack from seven theatres: Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Judea and Samaria (West Bank), Iraq, Yemen and Iran.

25.12 / 17:44

Southern Experts reports end Egypt’s ambitious proposal to end Israel-Hamas war: A ceasefire, phased hostage release and….

Israel-Hamas war, Egypt has put forward a proposal that include a ceasefire, a phased hostage release and the creation of a Palestinian government of experts who would administer the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, said a report by AP citing a senior Egyptian official and a European diplomat. The proposal has been presented to Israel, Hamas, the United States, and the European governments, said the report. According to the report, the proposal calls for an initial ceasefire of up to two weeks during which Palestinian militants would free 40 to 50 hostages, among them women, the sick and the elderly, in return for the release of 120-150 Palestinians from Israeli prisons.

25.12 / 11:25

Target Platform Action shootings reports Israeli forces strike Bethlehem on Christmas day amid raids across occupied West Bank

Israel-Hamas war: Stepping up its attack against Palestine, Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) conducted some deadly Christmas Day raids against Palestinian targets in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces conducted overnight raids in Nablus, Jericho, Ramallah, and Bethlehem, areas that hold significance for Christians as they believe Bethlehem is the birthplace of Jesus Christ, as per news platform Al Jazeera.

25.12 / 10:20

Healthcare Celebrity rock stars reports SOLIDARITY Bethlehem's silent Christmas: Bombed-out sculpture of Holy Family Cave installed in solidarity with Gaza

Jerusalem, a town that is seeing the atrocities of Israel's aerial bombing campaign and ground attacks in the Gaza Strip. Bethlehem fell silent on Monday, with no Christmas tree, no caroling, as the ongoing attack by Israel in West Bank left hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops deserted. Bethlehem, considered the birthplace of Jesus, is now in the middle of a war zone.

25.12 / 08:34

Target Williams Fighting Southern Celebrity hospital reports Israeli airstrikes kill dozens in one of war's deadliest nights, Gaza officials say

By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Bassam Masoud and Dan Williams

25.12 / 05:54

Citi Fighting Southern Celebrity Latin hospital reports Palestinians feel 'no joy' as Israel bombs Gaza on Christmas

no joy" this Christmas as Israel bombed the besieged Palestinian territory on Monday, with no end in sight to the war that Hamas says has claimed more than 20,000 lives. Festivities were effectively scrapped in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, with few worshippers or tourists on the usually packed streets.

25.12 / 03:33

Citi Southern Banner Celebrity band Latin prevention Pope kicks off Christmas celebrations in shadow of war

Pope Francis has kicked off global Christmas celebrations with a call for peace, as Israel's war on Hamas and Russia's invasion of Ukraine cast a shadow over one of the world's favourite holidays. Having said earlier in the day that he was thinking of people «who are suffering from war — we are thinking of Palestine, of Israel, of Ukraine», the pope struck a sombre tone during his Christmas Eve mass.

25.12 / 02:31

Citi Target Fighting Southern Celebrity hospital reports Israeli airstrikes kill dozens, Gaza officials say, in Christmas bloodshed

Pope Francis lamented the war in the Holy Land where Palestinian health officials said airstrikes killed at least 78 people on Christmas Eve in one of the Gaza Strip's deadliest nights in Israel's 11-week-old battle with Hamas. Israeli strikes that began hours before midnight persisted into Christmas Day on Monday. Local residents and Palestinian media said Israel stepped up air and ground shelling against al-Bureij in central Gaza. At least 70 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting Maghazi in central Gaza, health ministry spokesperson Ashraf Al-Qidra said, adding that many were women and children. The Israeli army said it was reviewing the report of a Maghazi incident and was committed to minimising harm to civilians.

24.12 / 18:22

Fighting Celebrity show In search of a silent night, holy night

Bethlehem will not celebrate Christmas. Devasted by the toll of Israel's pounding of Gaza some 70 km away, Christ's birthtown in the West Bank will not have a single Christmas tree, let alone festivities. On last count, the Hamas-Israel conflict has killed more than 20,000 Palestinians and injured 50,000-plus people.

23.12 / 20:18

Citi Celebrity hymn SOLIDARITY Sombre Bethlehem marks Christmas with vigil as bombs rain on Gaza

BETHLEHEM, Occupied West Bank (Reuters) — Palestinian Christians held a sombre Christmas vigil in Bethlehem on Saturday, with candle-lit hymns and prayers for peace in Gaza instead of the usual festive celebrations at the spot where they believe Jesus Christ was born.

23.12 / 04:01

Reuters Waters Fighting Death President hospital reports UN urges more Gaza aid, UN chief says Israel creating distribution 'obstacles'

After days of wrangling to avert a threatened U.S. veto, the Security Council on Friday passed a resolution urging steps to allow «safe, unhindered, and expanded humanitarian access» to Gaza and «conditions for a sustainable cessation» of fighting.

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