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Peace feels further than ever at six months of Israel-Hamas war

By Joshua Melvin with Adel Zaanoun in the Gaza Strip and Hossam Ezzedine in the West Bank KIBBUTZ BEERI, Israel, April 5, 2024 (AFP) – The staggering suffering, death and destruction of six months of war since Hamas’s October 7 attack has widened the gulf between Israelis and Palestinians, leaving both feeling that the prospect of peace is ever more elusive. Israeli farmer Yarden Zemach, 38, said he felt safe when picking avocados with Palestinians […]

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Battle rages at Gaza hospital as UN reports ‘catastrophic’ hunger

By Adel Zaanoun with Joshua Melvin in Jerusalem Fighting raged Monday in and around the besieged Gaza Strip’s largest hospital complex where Israel said its forces killed and arrested Hamas militants, as Palestinians fled by foot under heavy bombardment. The United States separately said Israel had killed the deputy leader of Hamas’s armed wing, making him the most senior militant killed inside the territory during the war. While the raid at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital […]

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Qatar says Gaza truce proposal to be sent to Hamas as war rages on

By Adel Zaanoun with Mark Anderson in Jerusalem A framework to halt the Gaza fighting and for hostage releases is to be relayed to Hamas, mediator Qatar said Monday, as a bitter row flared around the UN aid agency for Palestinians. While deadly fighting again rocked Gaza, fears mounted of a widening regional conflict after Israel’s top ally Washington vowed to respond to an attack that killed three US troops in Jordan. Israeli bombing of […]

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