Several Yemenis working for the United Nations in the rebel-held capital Sanaa have been detained on accusations of spying for Israel, a Huthi security official told AFP Friday, in the latest arrests targeting the world body’s staff. Earlier this week, 20 UN staff including 15 foreigners were released after being held in their compound since […]

Israel’s defence minister threatened Wednesday to resume fighting if Hamas does not honour the terms of a US-backed ceasefire that halted the war in Gaza.

Hamas security forces were tightening their grip on Gaza’s ruined cities Tuesday even as global support mounted for a US-backed deal that would see them disarmed. Read Also: Cameroon opposition candidate Tchiroma declares victory in presidential vote When bus loads of prisoners freed from Israeli jails arrived in Gaza on Monday, fighters from Hamas’s Ezzedine […]

The first buses carrying those released left Ofer Prison on Monday in the West Bank near Jerusalem, headed for Ramallah.

A Red Cross convoy is on its way to pick up a second group of Israeli hostages to be freed by Hamas as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal

The Gaza peace deal hinges on both sides adhering to an agreement to exchange hostages seized from Israel in Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack

The head of the Football Association of Norway, Lise Klaveness, recently said she was pushing “for Israel to be sanctioned”

“Why is an agreement that is acceptable to Hamas and Palestine not acceptable to you?”

“The final draft of phase one was signed this morning in Egypt by all parties to release all the hostages”

‘The fact that this has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, makes it all the more horrific’