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It's not the first time Donald Trump has threatened Hamas. In December, he said there would be 'all hell to pay' if hostages were not released by the time he took office
Trump issues 'last warning' to Hamas as US confirms direct hostage talks
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has issued what he called a "last warning" to Hamas to release the hostages being held in Gaza."I am sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job, not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don't do as I say," Trump said in a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform.It comes just hours after the White House confirmed it is holding direct talks with Hamas over the hostages.Washington has until now avoided direct engagement with the group, and there is a longstanding US policy against having direct contact with entities it lists as terrorist organizations.In his social media post, Trump said there would be "hell to pay" if the hostages were not released, while not specifying the nature of the support he...
March 06, 2025

Trump issues 'last warning' to Hamas as US confirms direct hostage talks

Displaced Palestinians seek shelter near the border with Egypt, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, January 7, 2024
US rejects alternative Gaza reconstruction plan proposed by Arab leaders
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has rejected a long-awaited plan for the reconstruction of Gaza endorsed by Arab leaders, saying the president stands by his own vision which includes expelling the territory’s Palestinian residents and transforming it into a “riviera” owned by the United States.“The current proposal does not address the reality that Gaza is currently uninhabitable and residents cannot humanely live in a territory covered in debris and unexploded ordnance,” National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said in a statement Tuesday night.“President Trump stands by his vision to rebuild Gaza free from Hamas. We look forward to further talks to bring peace and prosperity to the region.”The postwar plan for the Gaza Strip, which was proposed by Egypt and...
March 05, 2025

US rejects alternative Gaza reconstruction plan proposed by Arab leaders

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends his trial on corruption charges at the district court in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. -
Israel's Netanyahu takes stand in ongoing corruption trial
TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stand for the 14th time on Tuesday to knock down corruption allegations against him in a long-running trial.He is the first sitting Israeli leader to take the stand as a criminal defendant in the trial, which began on 24 May 2020 but was delayed due to the war between Israel and Hamas.The testimony is a low point for Israel’s longest-serving leader, who also faces an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes in Gaza.Netanyahu faces three separate cases of corruption that were filed in 2019, which include allegations of fraud, bribery and breach of trust.In one, he is accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of cigars and champagne from a billionaire Hollywood producer in exchange for assistance...
March 04, 2025

Israel's Netanyahu takes stand in ongoing corruption trial

Jabalia, in northern Gaza, was once a bustling and tightly-packed refugee camp
Gazans face tough choices as their future is debated on the global stage
JERUSALEM — The level of destruction in Jabalia when viewed from the air is truly astonishing.A Hiroshima-like wasteland stretches as far as the eye can see. The mangled carcasses of buildings dot the churned-up landscape, some leaning at crazy angles.Great undulating waves of rubble make it all but impossible to make out the geography of this once bustling, tightly packed refugee camp.And yet, as a drone camera flies over the wreckage, it picks out splashes of blue and white where small tent camps have been set up in patches of open ground.And figures, clambering over broken buildings, moving along streets of dirt, where food markets are springing up under tin roofs and canvas awnings. Children using a collapsed roof as a slide.After more than six weeks of Gaza's fragile ceasefire,...
March 04, 2025

Gazans face tough choices as their future is debated on the global stage

The stabbing, which the police are treating as a militant attack, took place in a bus station
At least one dead and four injured in Israel stabbing attack
TEL AVIV — At least one person was killed and four other people were wounded in a stabbing attack Monday in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Israeli authorities said the assailant was killed.One teenager and two people aged around 30 suffered serious injuries in the attack, while a person in her 70s was said to be in moderate condition, according to the domestic press, citing Israeli authorities.The teenager, said to be 15, has undergone surgery and is now stable.The stabbing, which the police are treating as a militant attack, took place in a bus station. A security guard and a civilian neutralized the attacker, whose identity was not immediately known.“The identity of the eliminated terrorist is not yet clear. We are scanning the area in order to rule out the presence of...
March 03, 2025

At least one dead and four injured in Israel stabbing attack

Aid agencies say they have managed to store some supplies, and there is no immediate danger to Gaza residents
Arab states and UN condemn Gaza aid blockade by Israel
LONDON — Several Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt, have condemned Israel for blocking the entry of all humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.Egypt and Qatar said the Israeli move on Sunday violated a ceasefire deal, while UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher described it as "alarming".Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country acted because Hamas was stealing the supplies and using them "to finance its terror machine".He also accused the Palestinian group of rejecting a US proposal to extend the ceasefire in Gaza, after it expired on Saturday. Israel said it had approved the proposal.A Hamas spokesman said Israel's blockade was "cheap blackmail" and a "coup" against the ceasefire agreement.The ceasefire deal...
March 03, 2025

Arab states and UN condemn Gaza aid blockade by Israel

The body of a woman was placed next to an Australian couple after she died along the aisle beside them
Qatar Airways says crew handled dead body 'appropriately'
DOHA — Qatar Airways says an internal review has found that its crew "acted quickly, appropriately and professionally" when they placed the body of a woman who died mid-flight next to an Australian couple.The airline issued the statement to the BBC on Friday, after the couple told Australia's Channel Nine that they were traumatized by the experience on the Melbourne to Doha flight.Qatar Airways had apologized in a previous statement for "any inconvenience or distress this incident may have caused".The incident sparked debate over procedures on dealing with deaths aboard planes.Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin, who were traveling to Venice for a holiday, said the cabin crew had placed the dead woman, covered in blankets, next to Ring for the last four hours of a...
February 28, 2025

Qatar Airways says crew handled dead body 'appropriately'

Supporters of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party display flags with a portrait of jailed Kurdistan Workers' Party leader, Abdullah Ocalan, during a rally in Istanbul in March 2024
Kurdish separatist leader calls on followers to disarm, potentially ending a five-decade conflict with Turkey 
ANKARA — Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has asked his followers in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to lay down arms and dissolve the group, potentially ending a decades-long conflict with Turkey that is estimated to have killed at least 40,000 people.“I am making a call for the laying down of arms, and I take on the historical responsibility of this call,” the jailed leader said in a statement Thursday that was read by Turkish lawmakers. “All groups must lay their arms and the PKK must dissolve itself.”Ocalan said that for more than a thousand years, “Turkish and Kurdish relations were defined in terms of mutual cooperation and alliance,” which was broken in the last 200 years. “Today, the main task is to restructure the historical relationship, which has...
February 28, 2025

Kurdish separatist leader calls on followers to disarm, potentially ending a five-decade conflict with Turkey 

The aftermath of the Hamas attack at the Nova music festival site, pictured on October 12, 2023
Investigation highlights Israeli intelligence failures in lead-up to Hamas attack
TEL AVIV — An investigation into the failings of the Israeli military in the lead-up to the devastating Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, has highlighted gaps in intelligence gathering, flawed assumptions about Hamas, and “systemic” failures in the Israel Defense Force’s preparedness and response.The 19-page report released Thursday by the IDF said there were gaps in the Intelligence Directorate’s understanding of “Hamas’ strategic goals, decision-making processes,” and operational plans that contributed to its failure to stop the biggest terrorist attack in the country’s history, when gunmen killed more than 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostage.Despite having relevant information, the intelligence community failed to recognize Hamas’ shift from a...
February 28, 2025

Investigation highlights Israeli intelligence failures in lead-up to Hamas attack

Palestinians inspect the destruction wrought by an Israeli military raid at Al-Shifa Hospital, northern Gaza, in April
Rights group says Israel has systematically abused Palestinian health workers 
JERUSALEM — Israel has systematically targeted Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza, arbitrarily detaining them without charge or access to legal counsel, and submitting them to torture and abuse, according to a new report by Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI).Between July and December, lawyers working with the Israeli nonprofit group said they visited over two dozen Palestinian medical workers, including physicians, nurses and paramedics, aged between at least 21 and 69, who had spent more than six months in isolation after having been seized by Israeli forces.In the 21-page report released Wednesday, PHRI said that the testimonies from healthcare personnel indicate that their arrests were primarily used by Israel to gather intelligence rather than investigate their alleged...
February 27, 2025

Rights group says Israel has systematically abused Palestinian health workers 

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