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…

Photos: Lebanese residents of border towns return home amid truce in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Photos: Lebanese residents of border towns return home amid truce in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

As a cautious calm descended on the border of south Lebanon on Saturday, the second day of a four-day ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, villages that had emptied of residents came back to life – at least briefly. Shuttered shops reopened, cars moved through the streets and, in one border…