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Israeli and US delegations in Egypt push for a Gaza ceasefire
The goal of the negotiations with Qatar and Egypt, which have been in talks with Hamas envoys for days, is the six-week cessation of hostilities sought by U.S. President Joe Biden
The goal of the negotiations with Qatar and Egypt, which have been in talks with Hamas envoys for days, is the six-week cessation of hostilities sought by U.S. President Joe Biden
Over one million Palestinians forcibly displaced to Gaza’s border with Egypt are surviving in increasingly inhumane conditions. Now, they face an Israeli military incursion with nowhere else to turn to
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ignoring calls from the international community, including the United States, to avoid the humanitarian disaster that a military incursion in the southern Gaza area would entail
The Israeli army is intensifying attacks on Rafah in the south of the Strip, while Egypt and Qatar are attempting to bring the parties in the conflict closer to a ceasefire agreement
After being released without charges and returned to the Gaza Strip, Diaa Al-Kahlout denounces Israeli torture and abusive interrogation
Israel’s prime minister insists he will not accept a deal with Hamas ‘at any price’ as the Palestinian militia seeks prisoner releases and withdrawal of troops from the Strip
Fear spreads among the hundreds of thousands of displaced people crowded into southern Gaza, trapped along the border with Egypt, an area turned into a ‘pressure cooker of despair,’ according to the U.N.
Demonstrators managed to stop trucks bound for the Strip in the port of Ashdod to press for the release of the hostages still being held after the Hamas attacks of October 7
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 68 reporters have been killed during the Israeli offensive. ‘We are not machines. We have feelings,’ says one of the Palestinian journalists who spoke to EL PAÍS
The Israeli army, stationed behind the neighboring concrete wall, has stepped up raids and arrests in a community of 5,500 inhabitants, where half of the population are minors
‘Did they have to shoot? Don’t know. But I can’t blame the soldiers,’ says Lidor Kalai, the friend of the deceased drummer, who was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7
In the West Bank city, the scene of weekly raids, 12 people have died and hundreds have been arrested. Soldiers left insulting graffiti and recorded a video mocking Islam inside a mosque
Israelis are incensed after IDF troops killed three hostages in the Strip on Friday, shouting ‘terrorists!’ as the captives waved a white flag
Netanyahu tries to iron out differences with the United States, thanking it for delivering weapons for the war and vetoing the UN call for a ceasefire
Hamas has continued to resist and killed nine Israeli soldiers in an ambush in the same northern neighborhood where it put troops at risk in 2014
Father Munther and other Christian clergy made an appeal to the White House for a ceasefire. ‘There they celebrate Christmas with presents and lights, and here they send us weapons and the machinery of war’
Washington’s decision to veto a ceasefire, despite desperate appeals from organizations on the ground, has worsened the situation in the Palestinian enclave
Refaat Alareer, the teacher and writer who had shared the hardships of war with EL PAÍS, was killed along with six family members in an Israeli attack
Just under 100 protesters, who were stripped of their banners, demanded that Israel take control of holy Muslim sites
Aisha, 16, and Bilal, 18, returned to their village in southern Israel after being included in the hostage-prisoner exchange but left their father and another sibling behind in the hands of Hamas
The members of the kibbutz, which was attacked by Hamas on October 7, are living temporarily in a hotel. Next summer, they will be welcomed in another location, but it will be several years before they can return home
The Israeli army renewed its attacks on the Strip after intercepting a missile shortly before the deadline at 7 a.m. local time
Women and young people freed through the Israel-Hamas truce explain how conditions hardened after the October 7 attacks, with beatings, overcrowding, humiliation and insults
The parties have announced a temporary ceasefire agreement that will last until Friday morning and allow for a new exchange of hostages and prisoners
20 Israeli hostages and 60 Palestinian prisoners are expected to be released between Tuesday and Wednesday
Residents of the Strip take advantage of the beginning of the truce to look for food and try to find out if their loved ones are still alive
The agreement, which also involves the entry of humanitarian aid into the Strip, was to begin to be implemented Thursday morning. Shortly before its entry into force, the Israeli national security advisor clarified that it would not take place before Friday due to last minute differences