Gaza / Tel Aviv The Israeli military has begun preparing to withdraw from interior areas of Gaza following the implementation of the Gaza Peace Agreement, Arab media reported on Thursday. Under the first phase of the ceasefire deal, Israeli troops are expected to pull back to agreed demarcation lines, marking the start of a phased…
Jerusalem / Washington Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Thursday that Hamas “must be destroyed” once Israeli hostages are returned, and that he will vote against the ceasefire and hostage-exchange agreement negotiated this week. The comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had agreed on the first phase…
Washington: The White House has confirmed that a prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas is expected to begin on Monday as part of the initial phase of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan, recently agreed upon by both sides. According to reports, Hamas will release 48 Israeli detainees, while Israel is set to…
Tel Aviv: The Israeli government has announced that a ceasefire will be implemented within 24 hours following cabinet approval of the proposed agreement. Government spokesperson Eylon Bedrosian stated that, under the agreed terms, a 72-hour period will commence immediately after the ceasefire takes effect.
Palestinians in Gaza have celebrated the agreement of a ceasefire and hostage release deal – but many fear confronting the grief that has built up over two years of war. “This morning, when we heard the news about the truce, it brought both joy and pain,” 38-year-old Umm Hassan, who lost his 16-year-old son during…
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said that a boat recently bombed by the US was “Colombian with Colombian citizens inside”, an allegation the White House called “baseless”. The US has struck at least four vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, killing 21 people. The US government has said the strikes in international waters were…
Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack. The platform, which has more than 200 million users worldwide, says hackers had targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users but the Discord platform itself was not breached….
Dolly Parton has released a video, telling fans “I’m not dying”, a day after her sister asked for the public to pray for her, sparking concerns about the US country star’s health. “I know lately everybody thinks that I’m sicker than I am. Do I look sick to you? I’m working hard,” the musician said…
At least 24 people were killed and 47 wounded while protesting against Myanmar’s military government after an army motorised paraglider dropped two bombs on the crowd, a spokesperson for the government-in-exile told BBC Burmese. The military attacked on Monday evening as around 100 people gathered in Chaung U township in central Myanmar for a national…
One of Australia’s biggest telecommunication companies sent emails about a deadly outage to the wrong email address at the Department of Communcations where they remained unread for over a day, parliament has heard. Optus’ emails also underplayed the severity of the 18 September outage, which has been linked to four deaths, including that of an…
