Hardline Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and two other ministers from his nationalist-religious party have resigned from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet over the Gaza ceasefire deal, their party said on Sunday. The Otzma Yehudit party is no longer part of the ruling coalition but has said it will not try to bring down…
Israel on Sunday said a truce with Hamas began in Gaza at 0915 GMT, nearly three hours after initially scheduled, following a last-minute delay on the orders of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the delay, Gaza’s civil defense agency said Israeli strikes killed eight people. A statement from Netanyahu’s office, issued less than an hour…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that Hamas provide a list of names of hostages to be freed on Sunday before any prisoner swap takes place. “We will be unable to move forward with the framework until we receive the list of the hostages who will be released, as was agreed,” his office said. When…
Several thousand people, mostly women, gathered in Washington on Saturday to protest President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, with some wearing the pink hats that marked the much-larger protest against his first inauguration in 2017. In Franklin Park, one of three kickoff locations for the “People’s March” that will wind through downtown, protesters gathered in light rain…
The Israeli military announced Sunday that it had recovered the body of an Israeli soldier, Oron Shaul, who had been held in Gaza since 2014. “Last night, in a special operation by the Shin Bet (security agency) and the IDF (military)… we brought back to Israel the body of Golani fighter Oron Shaul,” the military…
Israeli hostages’ families should ask the Israeli military to stop intensified strikes in the final hours before a ceasefire takes effect as this “would be reason for killing their children,” a Palestinian militant spokesperson said on Saturday. The spokesperson, Abu Hamza, is with the al Quds Brigades armed wing of the Islamic Jihad group in Gaza, which…
Syria’s foreign minister said on Saturday he was looking forward to the return of Syria to the Arab League as the country’s new rulers seek a place in the regional political landscape. Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani made his statements during a joint press conference in Damascus with Arab League Assistant Secretary General Hossam Zaki, who said…
Iran unveiled an underground naval missile base at an undisclosed location on Saturday, state TV said, two days before the start of Donald Trump’s second term as president. It was unveiled at a time when tension with Washington is widely expected to rise. Iranian leaders are concerned that Trump might empower Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
Israeli forces started withdrawing from areas in Gaza’s Rafah to the Philadelphi corridor along the border between Egypt and Gaza, pro-Hamas media reported early on Sunday. A ceasefire in the Gaza war will begin Sunday morning at 0630 GMT, mediator Qatar said on Saturday after Israel’s cabinet voted to approve the truce and hostage-prisoner release…
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis warned “enemy forces in the Red Sea” on Sunday that there would be “consequences” for any attacks on the country during the coming Gaza ceasefire. “The Yemeni Armed Forces warn the enemy forces in the Red Sea of the consequences of any aggression against our country during the ceasefire period in Gaza…
A long-awaited ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war was delayed Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the last minute that it would not take effect until the Palestinian militant group provided a list of the hostages to be released. Hamas, while “affirming its commitment” to the terms of the ceasefire, said: “The delay in…
The Gaza ceasefire will come into effect on Sunday at 0630 GMT, the Qatari foreign ministry spokesman said in a tweet on X on Saturday. 24 cabinet members back agreement, which Netanyahu’s office says will enter into force on Sunday, while 2 members of ruling Likud party join far-right ministers in voting against The full…
China’s Vice President Han Zheng will attend US President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, Chinese state news agencies said on Friday, with Beijing ready to enhance dialogue with the new US administration. Han’s participation in the Washington, DC event comes at the invitation of the US side, China’s national television broadcaster reported. “We are…
Israel’s justice ministry has said 737 prisoners and detainees will be freed as part of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal approved Saturday. It said in a statement on its website that “the government approves” the “release (of) 737 prisoners and detainees” currently in the custody of the prison service….
Three people were killed early on Saturday in the center of Kyiv in a night-time Russian attack, said Timur Tkachenko, head of the Ukrainian capital’s military administration. Tkachenko posted on the Telegram messaging app that the deaths had occurred in the city’s Shevchenkivskyi district. He said falling debris had also hit the Desnyanskyi district on…
