Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water, which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination. “This policy, inflicted as part of a mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, means Israeli authorities have committed the crime against humanity … Read more
Two primary obstacles remain in the hostage deal/ceasefire negotiations in Doha, Hamas sources told the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese news outlet Al-Akhbar on Thursday. The first of these issues is Israel’s demand that Hamas provide it with “a list of the names of all living and deceased prisoners,” the sources told Al-Akhbar. The second reportedly concerns … Read more
New footage revealed by the IDF shows Hamas torturing Palestinian prisoners in its detention facilities in the Gaza Strip, the military announced on Saturday evening. The surveillance footage is dated to 2023, and it captured Hamas’s Al-Katiba Prison in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, Adraee said. The videos were discovered by security forces, … Read more
Hamas has given Egyptian mediators a list of Israeli hostages that are currently being held in captivity by the terror group, Saudi news channel Al Arabiya reported on Tuesday. The update comes as the Saudi outlet reported that officials confirmed that negotiations were privately progressing and that secret communications were in the works to … Read more
Hamas is attempting to determine the number of living Israeli hostages it and other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip are holding, Palestinian sources told Saudi-owned news outlet Asharq Al-Awsat on Saturday. The sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that Hamas leadership reached out to other groups to assess the number of living hostages. The report … Read more
Hamas managed to locate the body of Muhammad Deif, the former military leader of Hamas, under the rubble of an airstrike that eliminated him in the area of Al-Mawasi and buried it in secret, Israeli state broadcaster KAN reported on Wednesday, citing Palestinian sources. According to KAN’s source, Hamas secretly buried Deif’s body in … Read more
Hamas’ military wing released a propaganda video Saturday showing an Israeli American hostage. It was the first video of its kind shared in months. The undated video, posted on the secure messaging service Telegram, shows 20-year-old Edan Alexander. The message says Alexander has been held captive by Hamas for more than 420 days. If true, … Read more
Billionaire venture capitalist and Trump in-law Josh Kushner slapped down online criticism of a tech executive who visited Israel and posted an image of the Tel Aviv beachfront on social media. Kushner, the brother of President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, took to the social media platform X on Wednesday to defend Patrick Collison, the … Read more
As a ceasefire the U.S. helped broker between Israel and the Iran-backed group Hezbollah came into effect Wednesday, President Biden said his administration would quickly launch “another push” with international partners to secure a deal to end the even deadlier war in the Gaza Strip. Mr. Biden, who has less than two months left in … Read more
UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini criticized a “spread of disinformation” that he said was putting the Palestinian refugee agency’s staff at risk, in a Monday post to X/Twitter. “The spread of #disinformation against @UNRWA is meant to create chaos & divert attention from the political aims to dismantle the Agency,” Lazzarini wrote. The spread of … Read more
