What can be done to extend Gaza’s fragile truce? | Israel-Palestine conflict

What can be done to extend Gaza’s fragile truce? | Israel-Palestine conflict

Calls grow louder to extend a fragile pause in fighting and allow more aid into Gaza. After weeks of intense Israeli bombardment, a humanitarian truce is being used to exchange dozens of detainees and captives between Israel and Hamas. But that deal hit a snag on Saturday, when a disagreement…

More Palestinian prisoners freed as Israel-Hamas truce holds into third day | Palestinian Authority News

More Palestinian prisoners freed as Israel-Hamas truce holds into third day | Palestinian Authority News

A third batch of 39 Palestinian prisoners has been freed as the exchange of captives between Hamas and Israel continues for a third day under a four-day truce deal. Large crowds of Palestinians took to the streets in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Sunday night as they waited…

Three Palestinian men shot in Vermont, US amid Israel-Hamas truce | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Three Palestinian men shot in Vermont, US amid Israel-Hamas truce | Israel-Palestine conflict News

While the motive behind the attack is unknown, it came amid rising anti-Palestine sentiments in the US. Three young Palestinian men have been shot near a university campus in Vermont in the United States, according to media reports. Reports said the incident took place on Saturday evening near the University…

It is time the US considers Hamas’s survival in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

It is time the US considers Hamas’s survival in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict

Three days into the four-day truce between Israel and Hamas, the agreement appears to hold and there is even talk of extending it. By Monday, 50 Israeli women and children are supposed to have been exchanged for 150 Palestinian women and children, with mediators hinting that the deal could continue…

Tears and joy as second batch of 39 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Tears and joy as second batch of 39 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons | Israel-Palestine conflict News

A second batch of 39 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons have been released as part of an agreement between the Israeli government and the group Hamas. Hundreds of people greeted the International Committee of the Red Cross bus carrying the Palestinians as it arrived in al-Bireh in the occupied West…

Wounded patients left at al-Shifa Hospital face dire conditions | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Wounded patients left at al-Shifa Hospital face dire conditions | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Al-Shifa Hospital has been a major focus of Israel’s ground offensive in northern Gaza, with the World Health Organization, the United Nations health agency, calling it “a death zone”. More than 200 medical personnel have been killed and most hospitals shut down in the weeks of indiscriminate bombing by Israel. The…

Repressions grow in Algeria, is freedom of speech in danger? | Human Rights News

Repressions grow in Algeria, is freedom of speech in danger? | Human Rights News

Since February 2019, Mustapha Bendjama, the editor of the daily newspaper Le Provincial, has been held by police forces and interrogated at least 35 times. In his hometown of Annaba in eastern Algeria, he has been under constant pressure from authorities due to what his allies say are his consistent…

Terry Venables, ex England, Spurs and Barcelona manager, dies aged 80 | Football News

Terry Venables, ex England, Spurs and Barcelona manager, dies aged 80 | Football News

Venables, who guided England to the Euro 96 semifinals and Barcelona to the 1986 European Cup final, died after a long illness. Terry Venables, the former manager of England’s national football team, Tottenham Hotspur and Barcelona, has died aged 80 after an illness, his family said. Venables guided England to…

More captives released after Hamas said Israel not upholding truce deal | Israel-Palestine conflict

More captives released after Hamas said Israel not upholding truce deal | Israel-Palestine conflict

NewsFeed There were concerns that the Gaza truce was at risk of derailing as Hamas accused Israel of not upholding its end of the deal to allow aid deliveries. Eventually, hostages were released, including a nine-year-old girl whose father thought she would’ve been better off dead than in Hamas captivity….