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struck al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City. Thousands of civilians had been sheltering there, alongside the sick. Palestinian officials say that hundreds died.

Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 is never repeated, senior officials said. Sullivan will discuss "ongoing efforts to revamp and revitalize" the Palestinian Authority and reining in "extremist settler violence" against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, said one of the officials, who declined to be named. Here are the top 10 updates on the Israel-Hamas war, 1) The Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh, in an interview on Thursday said the Biden administration must now “walk the walk" and take specific steps toward what has been an elusive two-state solution, including by applying pressure on Israel, AP reported.

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Hamas including through corridors that allow people to move safely from defined areas of hostilities." "President Biden reiterated his concern about extremist violence committed against Palestinians and the need to increase stability in the West Bank," it added. Here are top 10 updates on Israel-Hamas war, 1) Residents informed that the Israeli military hit Rafah in southern Gaza twice overnight as United Nations officials warned there are no safe places left in the besieged territory, as per AP reports.

Israel and the occupied West Bank this week to expedite humanitarian aid to Gaza, aiming to discuss direct aid delivery by sea during talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, CNN reported on Thursday. Shapps emphasised the search for the quickest and most direct routes, including options by land, sea, and air. Additionally, four Royal Air Force flights carrying over 74 metric tons of aid for Palestinians have landed in Egypt.

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Israel, the State Department said Tuesday it will impose travel bans on extremist Jewish settlers implicated in a rash of recent attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced the step after warning Israel last week that President Joe Biden's administration would be taking action over the attacks. Blinken did not announce individual visa bans, but department spokesman Matthew Miller said the bans would be implemented starting Tuesday and would cover «dozens» of settlers and their families, with more to come if the settler violence continued. He wouldn't give a number and refused to identify any of those targeted due to confidentiality reasons. The decision comes at a sensitive moment in U.S.-Israeli relations.

WASHINGTON : The US State Department will impose visa bans against individuals involved in undermining peace, security or stability in the occupied West Bank, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on Tuesday announcing a new visa restriction policy. The restrictions will target those who have committed acts of violence or taken other actions that restrict civilians' access to essential services and basic necessities and may also apply to those individuals' family members, Blinken said. President Joe Biden and other senior U.S.

Bank of Montreal missed analysts’ earnings estimates as the company reported higher expenses related to the integration of Bank of the West and a drop in wealth-management income.

United Nations on Wednesday called for the international community to move towards a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, saying Jerusalem should serve as the capital of both states. «It is long past time to move in a determined, irreversible way towards a two-state solution, on the basis of United Nations resolutions and international law,» said Tatiana Valovaya, Director-General of the U.N. office in Geneva, delivering a speech authored by U.N.

Isaac Herzog and his Palestinian counterpart Mahmud Abbas will both address the COP28 UN climate talks in Dubai this week, seven weeks into the Israel and Hamas war, officials said on Tuesday. Herzog and Abbas are both scheduled to make speeches lasting three minutes maximum on Friday. Abbas is expected to be in the room when Herzog is speaking, as he is scheduled to address the room only three speakers later. Abbas, head of the Fatah party that leads the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, has only met Israeli officials on rare occasions. More than 140 heads of state and government are due to address COP28 on Thursday and Friday, the start of nearly two weeks of talks to address the climate crisis, according to a UN list made available on Tuesday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel, the West Bank, Belgium, North Macedonia and UAE this week. It is Blinken's third visit to Israel since Hamas launched an attack on southern Israel on October 7.

Antony Blinken will return this week to the Middle East as the U.S. hopes to find a way to extend a cease-fire in Gaza and get more hostages released, the State Department said Monday. It will be his third trip to the region since Israel's war with Hamas began last month. Blinken will travel to Israel and the West Bank after attending Ukraine-focused meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday in Brussels and Skopje, North Macedonia, where foreign ministers from NATO and the Organization for Peace and Security in Europe are gathering.

Israel and Hamas in Gaza appeared set to continue for a fifth day on Tuesday, there are expectations that Hamas will release more hostages seized on October 7 in exchange for increased aid and the release of imprisoned Palestinians by Israel, Reuters reported. As per the report, following the release of 11 Israelis on Monday, Hamas has now freed 69 hostages out of approximately 240 taken during an incursion into southern Israel, resulting in about 1,200 casualties according to Israeli figures. Early on Tuesday, media affiliated with Hamas reported that Israel had released 30 Palestinian children and three women in the fourth exchange of the truce.

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(Reuters) — Three Palestinian students attending U.S. colleges were shot on Saturday night in Burlington (NYSE:BURL), Vermont, and were being treated for injuries on Sunday, according to the students' former school in the West Bank.

According to the Palestinian health ministry, six Palestinians, including one minor, were shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank late Saturday and early Sunday.

Israel announced early Sunday that they had released 39 Palestinian detainees, after Hamas freed 13 hostages under an agreement that came into force on Friday. The freed Palestinian prisoners are all women and people under the age of 19, while the hostages released by Hamas are all women and children. The agreement is supposed to last four days and allow the release of 50 Israelis and 150 Palestinians. The exchange, which took place on Saturday, followed an initial swap on Friday when Hamas released 13 Israelis, all women and children, while Israel freed 39 Palestinian detainees, also all women and children. Celebrations in East Jerusalem welcoming the released Palestinian prisoners were muted, amid heavy Israeli police presence. The most prominent Palestinian released is Israa Jaabis, 37, who was convicted of detonating a gas cylinder in her car at a checkpoint in 2015, wounding a police officer.

Israel arrived in the West Bank early on Sunday, following Hamas' release of 13 Israelis and four foreigners in the second round of swaps under a cease-fire deal. Hundreds of people greeted the International Committee of the Red Cross bus as it arrived in Al Bireh. Crowds chanted «God is great» as the bus arrived, and several young men stood on the roof of the vehicle.

Thirty nine Palestinian women and minors detained on various charges were freed under an accord brokered by Qatar that also saw the release of 13 Israeli hostages seized by Hamas gunmen during their assault on Israel last month. «There is no real joy, even this little joy we feel as we wait,» said Sawsan Bkeer, the mother of 24-year-old Palestinian prisoner Marah Bkeer, jailed for eight years on knife and assault charges in 2015. Israeli police were seen raiding her Jerusalem home before her daughter was released. «We are still afraid to feel happy and at the same time, we do not have it in us to be happy due to what is happening in Gaza,» she said. More than 100 more Palestinian prisoners are due to be released over the coming four days and more may be freed if the truce is extended. In Beitunia, a city near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, a large crowd, mostly of young men, greeted freed prisoners by cheering, honking car horns and marching in the street carrying Palestinian flags. Some in the crowd also carried the flag of the Hamas militant group that rules blockaded Gaza and chanted in support of Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson of the group's armed wing. «I can't express how I feel.

Palestinian prisoners in line with a truce deal that saw 13 Israeli hostages freed by militants in Gaza hours earlier. Qadura Fares, who heads an advocacy group for prisoners, said 33 prisoners freed in the West Bank were handed to a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross.