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In a new statement, Hamas said it “has shown the necessary positivity in all stages of negotiations” in order to reach a “comprehensive and acceptable agreement based on the just demands of our people.” Hamas said those demands include a permanent ceasefire, a complete withdrawal from Gaza, the “return of the displaced, reconstruction, and the conclusion of a serious deal for the exchange of prisoners.” Hamas said while it has “expressed its positive position” to what was included in US President Joe Biden’s speech on May 31, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has “continued to confirm their commitment to the genocide…

Group of Seven leaders have reached an agreement to loan money to Ukraine backed by the profits from frozen Russian investments, a senior US administration official confirmed Thursday, as the G7 met in Puglia, Italy. “There was shared recognition here in Puglia by every G7 member that the situation on the battlefield remains difficult, and that if the war continues, Ukraine is still going to have a large financial need next year and beyond, and that this summit is our best chance to act collectively to close the gap,” the senior official said. The official added that it’s “only fair that we close the gap by making Russia pay, not our taxpayers,…

Israeli forces extract the bodies of Israeli residents from a destroyed house in Kfar Aza, Israel, on October 10. Ilia Yefimovich/picture-alliance/dpa/AP A United Nations inquiry into the first few months of the war in Gaza has found both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes and grave violations of international law, in the body’s first in-depth investigation into the October 7 attacks and the ensuing conflict. The damning reports released Wednesday, which cover events up to the end of 2023, paint an alarming picture of both sides routinely disregarding international law in a devastating conflict that has now raged for more than…

Members of European Parliament attend a plenary session in Brussels on April 10. John Thys/AFP/Getty Images The European Parliament is the legislative branch of the European Union and one of the bloc’s three main institutions, along with the European Commission, which is the executive branch, and the European Council, which is made up of ministers from the governments of the 27 member states. The parliament sits primarily in Brussels, Belgium, but moves roughly once a month to Strasbourg, France. It is the only EU institution where representatives are directly elected, and MEPs pass laws which are applied all over the…

Noa Argamani, a rescued hostage embraces her father, Yaakov Argamani, in Ramat Gan, Israel, in this handout image dated June 8. Israeli Army/ReutersNoa Argamani, one of the four Israeli hostages freed during Israel’s Nuseirat operation on Saturday, has been reunited with her terminally ill mother. Liora, who has stage 4 brain cancer, said in December that she wanted to see her daughter before she died. However, Argamani’s father, Yaakov, said the reunion was “difficult.””This was not how I imagined the meeting would go,” Yaakov said, sobbing while speaking to Galatz radio on Sunday.Yaakov said that, due to the stage of the illness, Liora…

Mourners react during the funeral of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza, on June 8. Doaa Rouqa/Reuters Saturday was Gaza’s deadliest single day since mid-December, with 283 people killed, the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported Sunday. That brings the ministry’s total death toll during the current war in Gaza to 37,084. Most of those killed Saturday died when the Israel Defense Forces mounted a surprise operation to rescue four Israeli hostages in Nuseirat in central Gaza.  The raid resulted in 274 Palestinians being killed and 698 injured, the Gaza Ministry of Health said Sunday. The IDF has disputed those numbers, saying it…

Police block the road to protesters demanding the release of Israeli hostages in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 8. Jacques Guez/AFP/Getty ImagesIsraeli police arrested 33 people on Saturday in anti-government protests in Tel Aviv, where demonstrators blocked roads to demand the release of all hostages held in Gaza and call for a ceasefire agreement.Police said several hundred demonstrators on Kaplan Street, known unofficially as Democracy Square, violated public order, stopping traffic, setting fires and clashing with police. The police said that the authorities arrested 33 people who were blocking main roads and broke up the demonstrations, adding that all roads…

Today marks the self-imposed deadline for key Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz to leave the country’s emergency government if Israel has not laid out a new plan for the war in Gaza. Follow for live updates. Source link

An Israeli soldier carries an injured comrade after projectiles were fired from Lebanon towards Israel, in Hurfeish, Israel, on Wednesday, June 5. Avi Ohayon/Reuters Hezbollah militants in Lebanon launched at least two explosive UAVs in an attack on Hurfeish, a Druze Arab village, in northern Israel on Wednesday evening, the Israeli military said. Nine people were treated for shrapnel injuries sustained in the drone strikes, according to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, including a woman suffering abdominal and chest injuries, whose condition was described as moderate to serious. The Israeli army has not commented on the identity of the injured, but the Reuters news…

US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Thursday used the 80th anniversary of D-Day to push back on Donald Trump’s claim that America is a “fascist state” following his recent felony conviction in New York.”Well, America is a democracy … and we have to fight to make sure that we can keep that going forward,” Jeffries told Kasie Hunt from Normandy, France on “CNN This Morning.””The fight against fascism was waged by our brave American heroes … 80 years ago today, which began the liberation fight at the highest level against Nazi Germany, Hitler and fascism,” he continued. Jeffries, the top House…