Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian movement Hamas blamed each other for the failure so far of the mediators’ effort to conclude a cease-fire agreement in the Gaza Strip, while a new visit by US Secretary of State Anthony began. Blinken in Israel. In Washington, US President Joe Biden said reaching a deal … Read more
The Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority announced this evening that the first confirmed case of polio in the city of Deir Al Ballach in the Gaza Strip. This is a 10-month-old infant, who had not been vaccinated. No cases of the disease had been recorded in the Gaza Strip for 25 years. In … Read more
The achievement of a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip seems “closer than ever”, estimated the US president, warning the parties involved not to undermine the process. Joe Biden says in his statement that the US Secretary of State Anthony Binken is going to the Middle East to emphasize that “with the looming now complete … Read more
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned today of a “vicious and dangerous cycle of instability” threatening the region due to the ongoing war in Gaza, welcoming French Foreign Minister Stephane Cezournet in Cairo, the Egyptian presidency said. “We must seize the opportunity of the ongoing negotiations” to reach a cease-fire agreement in Gaza, “in order … Read more
Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip have claimed the lives of at least 40,005 Palestinians, while 92,401 have been injured since October 7, the Palestinian enclave’s health ministry announced today. Forty Palestinians were killed and 107 wounded in the past 24 hours, the ministry added. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a … Read more
Last week Israel’s three largest cities went to bed and woke up expecting the Iranian strike. But the picture in each of them was different. As diverse as the worlds that make up this country. Tel Aviv: The world is out A quarter past two. In the morning. The intensity of the day and the … Read more
The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, who arrived yesterday, Wednesday, in Ankara, spoke at the extraordinary special session of the Plenary of the Turkish National Assembly. The Palestinian president said he would go to Gaza and then Jerusalem. “There is no other solution before us. The best we can do today for the … Read more
Talks continue for a second day in Doha with the aim of concluding a cease-fire agreement in the Gaza Strip, which will be accompanied by the release of Israeli hostages still held in the enclave. The spokesman for Qatari diplomacy, Majid al-Ansari, said in the early hours of the morning that efforts by mediators (Qatar, … Read more
In Washington, lawmakers can no longer agree on many issues. Polarization and partisan division are so entrenched that, as one congressman recently admitted to CNN, they can’t agree “on what the weather is like today.” Of course there are issues that are traditionally considered supra-partisan. One of them is support without asterisks for Israel. However, … Read more
Talks aimed at reaching a truce in the Gaza Strip will take place tomorrow in Qatar, three sources close to the negotiations told AFP, while Hamas’s participation is considered uncertain. These new talks on a ceasefire, called for by the mediator countries (Qatar, the US and Egypt), will take place in Doha, confirmed a source … Read more