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By Phil Hazlewood and Shaun Tandon with Adel Zaanoun in the Gaza Strip JERUSALEM, Feb 7, 2024 (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday dismissed Hamas’s demand for a ceasefire and ordered troops to prepare to move on the city of Rafah in Gaza’s far south, where more than one million Palestinians have sought refuge. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking in Tel Aviv hours after meeting Netanyahu, said he still saw […]
By Adel Zaanoun, with Sharon Aronowicz in Tel Aviv GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories, Feb 2, 2024 (AFP) – Fighting in Gaza raged on Friday with scores reported killed overnight, after mediator Qatar said Hamas had given its “initial” support to a hostage-prisoner exchange deal that would pause its war with Israel. The health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said 112 people had been killed over the previous 24 hours, while the Hamas press office reported […]
ISTANBUL, Feb 1, 2024 (AFP) – An armed assailant on Thursday raided a plant owned by the US consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble near Istanbul and took an undisclosed number of people hostage, Turkish media reported. The assailant appeared to be acting in protest at US support for Israel’s military assault in Gaza, the private DHA news agency reported. Turkish officials and police issued no immediate comment. It was not clear how many people […]
STOCKHOLM, Jan 31, 2024 (AFP) – Israel’s embassy in Stockholm was the target of an attempted attack, the ambassador said Wednesday, after a bomb squad destroyed what Swedish police called “a dangerous object”. Police said the “live” device had been found by staff on the premises of the Israeli embassy in the Swedish capital, without specifying what the object was. “We were alerted at 1:08 pm (1208 GMT) by the embassy that they had found […]
By Didier LAURAS and Mark Anderson JERUSALEM, Jan 26, 2024 (AFP) – The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday it had sacked several employees accused by Israel of involvement in Hamas’s October 7 attack, prompting the United States to suspend critical funding. The head of the agency, Philippe Lazzarini, vowed to hold “accountable, including through criminal prosecution” any UNRWA employee found to have taken part in acts of terror. In response to the firings, […]
By Richard CARTER THE HAGUE, Jan 26, 2024 (AFP) – The head of the top United Nations court on Friday began reading the initial decision in the case against Israel over alleged genocide in Gaza, a landmark case that has sparked global interest. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) could in theory order Israel to stop its military campaign in Gaza, sparked by the October 7 attacks by Hamas, or to facilitate humanitarian aid. The […]
DOHA, Jan 25, 2024 (AFP) – Qatar said Wednesday it was “appalled” by remarks attributed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was allegedly caught on tape calling the emirate’s role as mediator in the Gaza war “problematic”. At a meeting this week with the families of hostages held in Gaza, Netanyahu blamed Qatar for financing Hamas and said he was upset at a US decision to extend the presence of a military base in […]
By Léon BRUNEAU WASHINGTON, Jan 25, 2024 (AFP) – Long gone is the Joe Biden of February 2023, strolling confidently through the streets of Kyiv, basking in the role as champion of the Ukrainian cause in the fight against Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Nearly one year after that triumphant appearance, the US president is instead facing the harsh realities of running for re-election while bogged down in one stagnant war and navigating the volatility of another, […]
WASHINGTON, Jan 23, 2024 (AFP) – Israel has proposed to Hamas via Qatari and Egyptian mediators a pause in fighting of up to two months as part of a deal to free all the hostages being held in Gaza, the US news site Axios reported Monday. The report, citing unnamed Israeli officials, said the deal would take place in multiple stages, the first of which would see the release of women, men over 60 and […]
By Max DELANY BRUSSELS, Jan 22, 2024 (AFP) – The EU’s foreign policy chief on Monday insisted on an eventual two-state solution as he told Israel it couldn’t build peace “only by military means” ahead of talks with Israeli and Palestinian top diplomats. Josep Borrell repeated the condemnation from the United Nations of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “unacceptable” rejection of calls for a Palestinian state after the war in Gaza. “What we want to […]
JERUSALEM, Jan 21, 2024 (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he had rejected conditions demanded by Hamas militants for the release of hostages, hours after the group released a report justifying its October 7 attack on Israel. “In exchange for the release of our hostages, Hamas demands an end to the war, the withdrawal of our forces from Gaza, the release of all murderers…. If we accept this, our soldiers have […]
WASHINGTON, Jan 19, 2024 (AFP) – Washington stressed once again Thursday it believes creation of a Palestinian state is the only way to guarantee Israel’s long-term security, putting the US-Israeli divide on the matter on sharp display. The comments come as questions swirl over the fate of the Gaza Strip when the Israel-Hamas war is over. Earlier Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country “must have security control over all the territory west […]
