Sweeping Israeli annexation of the West Bank

Najla M. Shahwan Israel approved on October 5 a new settlement plan to seize 35 dunams of land from the Palestinian village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya in the northern occupied West Bank. The plan envisions the construction of 58 new settler...

Tears as freed prisoners reunited with loved ones in Gaza and West Bank

Nearly 2,000 Palestinians who were imprisoned in Israel have been reunited with their families as part of an exchange for hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Warning: This story includes descriptions of assaults that some readers may find distressing...

A day after ceasefire announcement, Israeli forces kill 5 Palestinians in Gaza City

Five Palestinians have reportedly been killed by the Israeli Army in Gaza City on Tuesday, October 14. The killing comes a day after Hamas freed all remaining living hostages as part of a ceasefire. The killings have been confirmed by the Israeli...

Zionist settlers attack Palestinians, torch vehicle in the town of Beitin, east of the West Bank city of Ramallah

Palestinians celebrate release of prisoners

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. BEITUNIA, West Bank -- Cheers erupted among Palestinians on Monday as Israel released nearly 2,000 prisoners under a Gaza ceasefire agreement that saw them...

Gaza ceasefire: Uncertainty surrounds next stages of Donald Trump’s peace plan

Uncertainty surrounds the next stages of Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza after a ceasefire deal saw 20 living Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners freed. Israel and Hamas moved ahead on a key first step of the tenuous Gaza...

Gaza’s Broken Politics

Whatever fragile political system existed in Gaza has collapsed, along with the institutions that once gave public life its structure. Hamas, weakened militarily and decapitated by the assassinations of its leaders, faces isolation abroad and a...

Gaza ceasefire: Hostage exchange and summit reshape conflict

The past 24 hours have seen one of the most dramatic developments in the Israel–Palestine conflict since the Gaza war began in 2023. A U.S.-brokered ceasefire, a large-scale prisoner–hostage exchange, and a major diplomatic summit have reshaped...

Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office: 250 prisoners serving life sentences to be released

Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office: 250 prisoners serving life sentences to be released Gaza – Saba: The Palestinian Prisoners' Media Office stated that under the current deal, 250 prisoners serving life sentences and long sentences, along with...

Gaza resistance forces arrest Israeli-backed militants, seize their bastions

Fighters from Hamas and other Gaza-based resistance factions have reportedly captured a large number of militants backed by the occupying Israeli regime, as they carried out mop-up operations across the besieged coastal sliver as part of a...

Gaza war ends: Trump

US President Donald Trump has declared an end to Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza after the historic exchange of prisoners. On Monday, October 13, as part of a truce agreement, live hostages were handed over by Hamas to Israel, and the bodies of...

Palestinian martyred in Israeli shelling on Khan Younis

A young Palestinian man was martyred from wounds he sustained during a previous Israeli shelling of the Gaza Strip. Medical sources reported that the young man was martyred as a result of an earlier Israeli shelling of the town of Abasan...

Gaza diplomacy

The “ceasefire now” crowd finally got its ceasefire, although not the way it hoped. Israel and Hamas have agreed to stop the fighting in Gaza, while the terror group will release all Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by...

Gaza Done, What About Kashmir? Taliban Policy Shift Shows The Way To Settle Indo-Pak Dispute: Op-Ed

After more than two years of captivity, the last remaining 20 Israeli hostages walked free on October 13, bringing to an end the horrendous war in the Middle East, which left more than 65,000 people dead, mainly on the Gaza side. For how long the...

'Gaza deal marks new era of peace and stability" for the Middle East'

THE Gaza ceasefire deal "closes a painful chapter in human history and opens a new era of peace and stability" for the Middle East, says Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Sisi, who signed a declaration with his fellow guarantors of the...

Gaza Deal Marks New Dawn For Peace In Middle East – Donald Trump

United States President Donald Trump has described the newly brokered Gaza peace agreement as “the biggest thing I was ever involved in.” He said the deal marks a historic step toward achieving lasting peace in the Middle East. Speaking aboard Air...

Gaza ceasefire signatures seal historic peace commitment: Erdoğan

ANKARA President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan described the declarations signed at the Sharm el-Sheikh Peace Summit as a binding commitment to history, emphasizing Türkiye's resolve to support Gaza's reconstruction and a lasting ceasefire while warning...

Gaza’s ‘return to order’: will global bodies censure Hamas — and will the streets respond?

110 CAIRO/GAZA, 14 October 2025 — Hamas has moved to reassert control across parts of the Gaza Strip following a ceasefire that began on Friday, with at least 33 people reported killed in a sweep against rival groups and alleged collaborators....

Gaza Takeover: The Easy Way, or the Hard Way

All Trump’s deal does is hand total victory to Israel, and key to whether Hamas capitulates are other Arab states, writes Joe Lauria. An AI-generated image shared on social media by Donald Trump himself last February. By Joe Lauria Special to...

Gaza as a Trophy

In the past, when an American president announced the definitive end of a war, everyone accepted it as such. In Donald Trump’s case, the Israel–Hamas agreement is met with public praise but private concern. Reports refer to Trump’s “unorthodox...