Israel said the Gaza executive committee “was not coordinated with Israel and is contrary to its policy,” without details.
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The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that Donald Trump championed has mostly held, but progress has slowed recently.
The vote was a crucial next step for the fragile ceasefire and efforts to outline Gaza’s future following two years of war between Israel and Hamas.
The remains of four hostages are still in Gaza after Palestinian militants released the remains of another on Sunday.
With Monday’s return, the bodies of 270 Palestinians have been handed back since the start of the ceasefire.
Since the ceasefire in Gaza took effect on Oct. 10, Palestinian militants had released the remains of 17 hostages, with 11 remaining in Gaza.
Israel said “significant gaps” remain after cease-fire talks on Sunday with the United States, Qatar and Egypt, but called them constructive.
President Joe Biden said Sunday that the U.S. “shall respond” after three American troops were killed in an overnight drone strike in northeast Jordan.
The tanker carried Russian-produced naphtha, a flammable oil, drawing Moscow further into a conflict that so far it had blamed on the U.S.
Nine countries have suspended their funding following Israel’s allegations that a number of Gaza staff members participated in the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack that sparked the war.
“The court is acutely aware of the extent of the human tragedy that is unfolding in the region and is deeply concerned about the continuing loss of life and human suffering,” court President Joan E. Donoghue said.
Thousands of Indians flocked to a recruitment center on Thursday for jobs that would take them to Israel despite the three-month Israeli-Hamas war.
Six Israeli soldiers were killed in the operation and dozens were injured when a tank shell prematurely ignited explosives before the soldiers had cleared the area.
Qatar on Wednesday said it was “appalled” by leaked remarks made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which he criticized the country’s mediation efforts with Hamas.
A 72-year-old Israeli woman held captive by Hamas terrorists for nearly 50 days told an Israeli TV channel Wednesday that she was held at length in a dark, humid tunnel.
The U.S. strikes hit militia facilities in Jurf al-Sakhar, which is south of Baghdad, al-Qaim and another unnamed site in western Iraq, two U.S. officials said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mourned the Israeli soldiers, who died when the blast from a rocket-propelled grenade triggered explosives they were laying to blow up buildings.
The U.S. Navy’s top Mideast commander says Iran is “very directly involved” in ship attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels during Israel’s war against Hamas.
Dozens of family members of hostages held by Hamas terrorists stormed a committee meeting in Israel’s parliament, demanding a deal to win their loved ones’ release.
According to officials, the U.S. and U.K. used warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets to take out Houthi missile storage sites and launchers.
Israel said 260 trucks of aid entered Gaza on Sunday, the highest number since the war began.