Category: 3. Middle East

Hamas on Monday night handed over to Israel the body of hostage Tal Haimi. Haimi, 41, was killed while defending Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on October 7, 2023, and his body was taken to Gaza.

He and other members of the rapid response team battled…

US President Donald Trump said Monday he could ask Israel to return to withdrawn areas of Gaza and “eradicate” Hamas if he wanted to, but he is holding off for now in order to give the fragile ceasefire he brokered earlier this month a…

Eliyahu “Churchill” Margalit, who was murdered by terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz two years ago at age 75 and his body taken captive to Gaza, was finally laid to rest in Israel on Monday, after Hamas returned his remains Friday night.

He…

Hamas has handed over a body that it says is a hostage, the Israeli military has said.

The body was transported by the Red Cross to Israeli forces in Gaza, and will now be returned to Israel for formal identification.

Before Monday, Hamas had…

Jewish extremists have carried out a series of attacks against Palestinian olive harvesters in the West Bank over the last two days, including one brutal assault in which the assailant clubbed a woman on her head, leaving her bleeding and…

The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire since the war started on October 7, 2023, stands now at 68,216. Since the cease-fire was announced on October 11, 80 Palestinians have been killed across the Gaza Strip,…

LONDON (Reuters) — The UK’s King Charles III visited the synagogue in Manchester on Monday where two Jewish worshipers were killed earlier this month during an attack by a man who told police he was acting for Islamic State.

Charles,…

“The noise of the shelling has been silenced and the skies are clear, but the pain of the war still hangs over the tents,” Dr. Mohammed Hamed, a physician in the Gaza Strip, posted on X last week. “The battle in the bodies of the wounded, in the…