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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 […]
Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles surrounded a hospital in Gaza’s Khan Yunis on Tuesday, witnesses said, as the Palestinian Red Crescent reported another facility was “out of service” due to military operations. Witnesses at Nasser Hospital, where thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge from the fighting, told AFP that shots were fired at the sprawling complex in the southern city, but no raid was as yet taking place. Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said Israeli […]
By Adel Zaanoun with Beatrice Le Bohec in Jerusalem International efforts towards a new pause in the devastating Gaza war gathered pace Wednesday, as Israel bombarded the Palestinian territory during fierce fighting with Hamas militants. Hamas was reviewing a proposal for a six-week truce in its war with Israel, a source told AFP, after mediators gathered in Paris. While talks take place, the population of Gaza is starving to death due to constraints imposed on […]
By Ilan Ben Zion EILAT, Israel, Jan 2, 2024 (AFP) – Deep under the Red Sea, a passing Israeli warship could barely be heard as Yamit Avital held her breath and dived, her mind briefly cleared of the trauma of the October 7 Hamas attacks. “There’s a kind of tranquility to the sea, in the deep,” Avital said after she emerged from 20 metres (66 feet) under the aquamarine waters of the Gulf of Aqaba, […]
