Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday evening he hopes to announce the release of all hostages held in Gaza “in the coming days,” as indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas resume in Egypt under a U.S.-backed peace plan.
Netanyahu made the remark in a brief televised statement, adding that he had dispatched an Israeli delegation to Egypt to “finalize technical details” and aimed to restrict the negotiations to a short timeframe of a few days.
He also reiterated Israel’s position that Hamas must be disarmed and Gaza demilitarised—either through diplomatic means or, if necessary, by force. “Either the …
President Donald Trump on Friday demanded that Israel immediately stop bombing Gaza after Hamas agreed to release hostages under the terms of a U.S.-backed peace plan, setting off what may be a fragile shift in one of the world’s most volatile conflicts.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced the country would begin implementing stage one of the Trump plan—hostage releases—while Israeli media reported reduced military activity. But key issues like Hamas disarmament remain unresolved.
The 20-point proposal, unveiled earlier this week, calls for a ceasefire, the return of all hostages (including remains), a phased Israeli withdrawal, and Hamas’s demilitarization. …
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally apologised to Qatar after an unprecedented Israeli airstrike in Doha killed a Qatari serviceman and several Hamas members earlier this month, an incident that triggered global outrage and raised new diplomatic tensions in the Gulf.
The September 9 strike targeted senior Hamas leaders who were in Qatar for U.S.-backed ceasefire talks. Instead, the missiles struck a residential neighbourhood housing members of the Hamas negotiating team. At least five Hamas operatives were killed alongside Qatari security officer Badr Al-Dosari, while Hamas’s top leadership narrowly escaped.
The attack was the first known Israeli strike on …
Netanyahu, facing the prospect of an end to his 12-year run as premier, said on Twitter ‘all legislators elected by votes from the right must oppose this dangerous left-wing government’, and he targeted historic Arab participation in the coalition.
Africa Daily News, New York, gathered that the right-wing leader mounted the social media attack the day after centrist politician Yair Lapid’s announcement, about 35 minutes before a Wednesday night deadline, that he
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel’s general election Monday, with exit polls putting the indicted premier in a strong position to form the next government.
The election, Israel’s third in less than a year, was called after inconclusive votes in April and September plunged the Jewish state into political stalemate.
The surveys conducted by three Israeli networks gave Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party between 36 and 37 seats in Israel’s 120-member parliament.
Likud’s main challenger, the centrist Blue and White party, was estimated to take 32 or 33.
Those projections mark a major improvement on Likud’s performance in Israel’s …
