Netanyahu says a cease-fire deal would only delay 'somewhat' an Israeli military offensive in Rafah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says an Israeli military offensive in the southernmost city of Rafah could be โdelayed somewhatโ if a deal for a weekslong cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is reached.
Thousands attend the funeral of a top Hamas official killed in an apparent Israeli strike in Beirut
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Beirut for the funeral of Saleh Arouri, top commander of militant Palestinian group Hamas, who was killed earlier this week in an apparent Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital.
Egypt invites Hamas, Palestinians, Israel for further talks
Egypt has invited Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority for separate talks that aim at consolidating the cease-fire that ended an 11-day war between Israel and the Gaza Stripโs militant Hamas rulers, an Egyptian intelligence official said Thursday.
Abbas decrees first Palestinian elections in 15 years
Israeli border policemen take position during clashes with Palestinian protesters as they a protest against Israeli settlements, in the village of Mughayer, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Elections would pose a major risk for Abbas' Fatah party and also for Hamas, which welcomed the decree. Abbas' Palestinian Authority is confined to the occupied West Bank, where it administers major population centers according to agreements with Israel. Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem in the 1967 war, territories the Palestinians want for their future state. Abbas, 85, has led the Palestinian Authority and the PLO since the death of Yasser Arafat in 2004 and has no clear successor.