Tel Aviv, Mar. 3, (dpa/GNA) – Israel released five Lebanese prisoners as the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that Israel and Lebanon plan…
Middle East
Group of European nations back Arab-led Gaza reconstruction plan
Berlin, Mar. 8, (dpa/GNA) – A Gaza Strip reconstruction plan, drafted by Arab nations, has gained backing from key European countries as the foreign ministers of Germany,…
Hamas threatens to kill Israeli hostages
Tel Aviv, March 7, (dpa/GNA) – The Palestinian militant organization, Hamas, is threatening to kill hostages if the Israeli army resumes fighting in the…
Human remains returned by Hamas to Israel confirmed as those of former hostage Shiri Bibas
Feb 22 (CNN/GNA) — Human remains returned to Israel by Hamas on Friday have been confirmed as those of former hostage Shiri Bibas, according to a…
Hamas failure to return body is new ceasefire setback
Feb 21, (BBC/GNA) – Israel’s announcement that a body returned from Gaza on Thursday was not that of Shiri Bibas, as Hamas had said,…
Mass polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip to resume
Tel Aviv/Geneva, Feb. 19, (dpa/GNA) – A mass polio vaccination campaign is to resume in the Gaza Strip in the coming days, the World Health Organization (WHO)…
Hamas hostages reveal grim details of captivity
Tel Aviv, Feb 10, (dpa/GNA) – Following the release of three more Israeli hostages held by the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement in the Gaza…
Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei rules out nuclear talks with US under Trump
Tehran, Feb 8, (dpa/GNA) – Iran’s supreme leader has, categorically rejected negotiations with US President Donald Trump. “One shall not negotiate with a government…
Israeli minister tells army to plan ‘voluntary departure’ from Gaza
Jerusalem, Feb 7, (dpa/GNA) – Israeli Defence Minister, Israel Katz said in a post on X on Thursday that he has instructed the military…
Netanyahu praises Trump’s plan to relocate Palestinians from Gaza
Washington, Feb 7, (dpa/GNA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended US President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate Palestinians from Gaza, brushing aside…
Iranian woman strips naked and climbs onto police vehicle
Tehran, Feb 3, (dpa/GNA) – An Iranian woman staged a naked protest on the bonnet of a police vehicle in the north-eastern city of…
Three more Israeli hostages freed by militants in Gaza after 484 days
Tel Aviv, Feb 1, (dpa/GNA) – Palestinian militants released three more hostages in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, as part of the fragile Israel-Hamas…
Arab foreign ministers reject Trump’s Gaza resettlement proposal
Cairo, Feb 2, (dpa/GNA) – Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Saturday, rejected a proposal from US President Donald Trump that Egypt and…
Several people killed in exchanges of fire in the West Bank
Ramallah, Feb 1, (dpa/GNA) – Two Palestinians were killed in Jenin, in the northern West Bank, in an exchange of fire with Israeli forces,…
Israeli military says it targeted Hezbollah positions in Lebanon
Tel Aviv, Feb 1, (dpa/GNA) – The Israeli military said on Friday, that the air force attacked Hezbollah positions in eastern Lebanon. The Israel…
Hamas frees three Israeli hostages
Accra, Feb 1 (BBC/GNA) – The three Israeli men due to be freed today have now all been released by Hamas. Yarden Bibas, 34,…
Gaza residents start to return north as crossing opened after hostage breakthrough
Cairo, Jan 27 (Reuters/GNA) – Tens of thousands of Palestinians began moving along the main roads leading north in Gaza on Monday as Israel…
Israel kills two armed Palestinians as Jenin operation continues
Tel Aviv/Ramallah, Jan 24, (dpa/GNA) – The Israeli military said on Thursday that its forces, killed two armed Palestinians in Jenin during the night,…
Who are the three Israeli hostages released by Hamas?
Jan 20 (BBC/GNA) – A young woman described as “at her happiest when she dances” is among three Israeli women released after 471 days…