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As Israel and Hamas begin indirect negotiations on Monday to end the two-year war in Gaza, the talks will be guided by two men leading their respective delegations. The Hamas delegation is led by Khalil al-Hayya, a senior official who survived an Israeli strike in Doha last month. The Israeli team is headed by Ron Dermer, a close aide to …

The statehood for Palestine, for all its significance, will vitiate to mere symbolism if Mr Netanyahu continues to act unhinged. The quest for the Palestinian State received acclamatory traction with many nations recognising it penultimate week. Remarkably, western nations and allies of Israel orchestrated this epiphany. The just concluded 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), in New York – the biggest global …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he hopes to announce the release of hostages being held in Gaza “in the coming days”. In a televised statement, he also said “Hamas will be disarmed and Gaza will be demilitarised – either the easy way or the hard way, but it will be achieved”. Reuters The comments came after Hamas released …

When word reached the White House on Friday afternoon that Hamas had, after nearly five days, responded to President Donald Trump’s 20-point proposal to end the war in Gaza, officials were so quick to embrace the group’s statement they posted it in full on social media, at one point mistakenly attributing it to Trump himself. Hamas’ response stopped well short of …

Hamas has agreed to release all the remaining Israeli hostages but says it wants further negotiations on a number of key points outlined in the US peace plan. In a statement, the group said it agreed “to release all Israeli prisoners, both living and dead, according to the exchange formula contained in President Trump’s proposal” – if the proper conditions …

US President Donald Trump has given Hamas a deadline to accept a US peace plan for Gaza or face “all hell”. Image caption, The 20-point peace plan is the latest attempt to end the conflict in Gaza Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Friday that an agreement must be reached by 18:00 Washington time (22:00 GMT) on Sunday. …

Mediators have made contact with the head of Hamas’s military wing in Gaza, who has indicated he does not agree to the new US ceasefire plan, the BBC understands. Israel has pressed on with its offensive in Gaza City since President Trump unveiled his peace plan Izz al-Din al-Haddad is thought to believe the plan was designed to finish Hamas, …

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government was thrown into a shutdown Wednesday with no easy endgame in sight, as Democrats held firm to their demands to salvage health care subsidies that President Donald Trump and Republican in Congress have dismissed as something to possibly discuss later. The White House threatened mass layoffs of federal workers, rather than simply the normal furloughs, in a matter of days, seizing …

Donald Trump called it “potentially one of the great days ever in civilization.” Even for a president known for hyperbole, this was setting expectations absurdly high for his new 20-point peace plan for Gaza. But this is an administration that often treats announcements as world-changing breakthroughs. It’s only got one peacemaking play — expressing extreme optimism designed to bounce rival parties into an …

European and Middle Eastern leaders have welcomed a US peace plan for Gaza, as President Donald Trump warned Hamas to accept it. The plan, agreed by Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, proposes an immediate end to fighting, the release within 72 hours of 20 living Israeli hostages held by Hamas as well as the remains of the more …