Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced late Thursday that a deal was signed between his team in Qatar and Hamas to end fighting inside the destroyed enclave after a reported pressure campaign by the incoming Donald Trump administration in the U.S… or was it a late win for U.S. President Joe Biden?
The Israeli Defense Force continues to capture more territory in Syria and subjugate the thousands of Syrians who live near the border region after the fall of the country’s former leader Bashar al Assad.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump used the momentum from reports of a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza to express hope to expand the “historic” Abraham Accords, which aimed to deliver Arab-Israeli normalization and would be a major win for Tel Aviv.
After some late snags, the long-anticipated Gaza ceasefire took hold on Sunday after Hamas’s return of three female Israeli hostages who were kidnapped during the 7 October 2023 raid that killed at least 1,200 and resulted in a 15-month punishment campaign inside the enclave that resulted in at least 46,000 deaths and one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
There were two narratives that emerged last week after Donald Trump, the U.S. president-elect at the time, posted on social media that his hard-nose negotiating team finally got Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the genocide in Gaza.
The IDF carried out strikes across Lebanon on Monday on what it identified as Hezbollah targets even as the tenuous ceasefire with the Lebanese group held, and a new truce with Gaza’s Hamas seemed close.
The death toll in Gaza reached 46,645 on Tuesday as mediators say a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is closer than ever.
President-elect Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy has reportedly applied new pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire agreement with Hamas and bring the 15-month-old genocide in Gaza to an end in exchange for the remaining hostages.
The death toll in Gaza is much higher than being reported, according to researchers behind an article published last week in The Lancet.
The Israeli military ramped up its killing spree on children in Gaza—with the death toll reaching 74 in the first full week of the new year, according to a report from UNICEF.