Israel's government approved a ceasefire deal with Hamas early Saturday morning.
Regarding the possibility of future formal diplomatic ties between Doha and Jerusalem, Al-Thani is asked if he thinks he will ever visit Israel. “It depends on [what] the way forward will be ...
By Mick Krever and Kareem Khadder, CNN Tel Aviv, Ramallah and Khan Younis (CNN) — Chaotic scenes surrounding the release of Israeli and Thai hostages in Gaza on Thursday brought condemnation from Israeli leaders and a temporary delay in the release of Palestinian prisoners,
Already, the fragile deal has come under considerable stress, and it could collapse in the weeks to come. Yet for the time being, the fighting has stopped in both Gaza and Lebanon, and hostages have begun to come home.
Hamas handed captive Israeli soldier Agam Berger over to the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip, the first of eight hostages set to be released today as part of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip
It is important to recognize that Palestinians in Gaza stood their ground, despite immense losses, and prevailed.
I would tell my husband I felt like it was a palace,” Shaima Abu Jazar told me, describing the family’s three-story home in Rafah in southern Gaza. They had lived in it for just six months before it was leveled to the ground in an Israeli airstrike in February 2024.
Qatar says an agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza.
He pointed out that the second task is to prevent Israel from shedding the stigma of genocide, saying: “We hope that neither Arabs nor Palestinians assist Israel in escaping its predicament without achieving a just resolution to the Palestinian issue.”
On Saturday, 25 January 2025, the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Institute for Palestine Studies launched the Third Annual Palestine Forum in Doha