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Israel withheld its delegation to Cairo due to Hamas rejecting one of its demands, according to an Israeli media report.Hamas officials have arrived in Cairo, Egypt for talks on securing a truce in the Gaza war after a US official indicated that Israel had endorsed a framework for a temporary ceasefire and exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. Hamas representatives arrived in Cairo on Sunday, but by early evening there was no delegation from Israel for the talks mediated by envoys from Qatar, Egypt and the United States, with Israeli media reporting that Israel had not sent a team…

Facing a rebellion in his party and starvation in Gaza, will the Biden administration consider a new approach to Israel?US policy on Israel “looks incoherent because it is incoherent,” argues Matt Duss, former adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders, and this is making the United States look “feckless and weak”. Duss tells host Steve Clemons that Israel is violating US law by using US-supplied weapons while preventing humanitarian aid. But President Joe Biden “has simply taken the tools of leverage off the table”. Duss, the executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, says there are still no indications that…

Dear President Biden, I am writing to you for the second time. I first wrote to you on November 4 after 47 members of my community, including 36 from my own family, were murdered in a single attack by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). The massacre occurred in Khan Younis refugee camp, located in the southern region of the Gaza Strip, where people were supposed to be safe, as claimed by your ally, Israel. I am uncertain if my first letter reached you or if your media team made you aware of its contents. Either way, you have not changed your position.…

NewsFeedA woman who spent 11 years trying to conceive is mourning her twins, born just four months ago, who were killed in Rafah along with her husband. A series of Israeli attacks on Gaza’s southernmost city, once declared a safe zone, have killed 25 Palestinians.Published On 3 Mar 20243 Mar 2024 Source link

NewsFeedThe US airdrop of food aid into Gaza on Saturday sparked criticism from Palestinians who called it inadequate and hypocritical when the US funds and supplies Israel’s military.Published On 3 Mar 20243 Mar 2024 Source link

At least six children killed in latest Israeli attack on Rafah, with many more trapped under rubble, witness and media reports say.Israeli forces have bombed a residential building in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to a witness and media reports, killing at least 14 Palestinians and burying many others under the rubble. The attack on Saturday evening came hours after an Israeli drone attack on tents housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah left at least 11 people dead. The latest attack in Rafah reduced a four-storey building in the Al Salam neighbourhood to rubble, according to witnesses. At…

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There is an agreement in place for a potential six-week truce in Gaza, a US official says, and Hamas must now decide.The United States says Israel has essentially endorsed a framework for a proposed Gaza ceasefire and captive release deal, and it is now up to the Palestinian group Hamas to agree to it. “There’s a framework deal. The Israelis have more or less accepted it,” a senior US official in the Biden administration told reporters on a conference call on Saturday. “Right now, the ball is in the camp of Hamas,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.…

United States military cargo planes have air-dropped food into Gaza, in the first of series of aid drops as humanitarian groups criticise Israel for blocking access to the besieged and bombarded strip. The US, together with Jordan’s air force, “conducted a combined humanitarian assistance airdrop into Gaza … to provide essential relief to civilians affected by the ongoing conflict”, US Central Command said in a statement on Saturday. The C-130 planes “dropped over 38,000 meals along the coastline of Gaza allowing for civilian access to the critical aid”, it added, as the enclave faces a humanitarian crisis after almost five…

Taipei, Taiwan – New Zealand lobbied France’s territories in the Pacific to respond to news of a controversial security pact between China and the Solomon Islands that set off alarms in Western capitals, newly released documents reveal. Within days of a draft version of the security pact leaking online in March 2022, representatives of New Zealand, Australia and France were meeting to discuss the implications for the region, the diplomatic cables obtained by Al Jazeera show. While the precise nature of the discussions is unclear due to redactions in the documents, the cables suggest Wellington hoped officials in French Polynesia…