Shorouk Express On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet has approved plans to seize the Gaza Strip and station troops there indefinitely – a move that would vastly expand Israel’s operations there and…
Shorouk Express On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Two Labour MPs have been denied entry to and deported from Israel in a move described as “deeply concerning” by the UK foreign secretary. Yuan Yang and…
Shorouk Express For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Israel said it is halting the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners until Hamas assured the release of…
Shorouk Express Israel is withdrawing troops from the corridor that has cut northern Gaza from the southern part of the enclave as part of the cease-fire deal with Hamas, according to media reports on Sunday that cited officials from both sides of the conflict. The Netzarim Corridor was established by Israel as a military zone…
Shorouk Express “Our thoughts are now with” the freed hostages “and all of our abductees,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on wrote on X, promising to secure the release of the several dozen remaining hostages, taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that killed 1,200 Israelis. Meanwhile, Gaza’s health ministry updated the death toll to…
Shorouk Express DAVOS, Switzerland, January 21. Israel hopes to see historic changes in Gaza similar to those in Lebanon and Syria, the President of Israel Isaac Herzog said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trend reports. “We see historic changes in Lebanon and Syria. We hope that the same changes will take place in…
Shorouk Express The cease-fire agreement, brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the U.S., pauses the 15-month war that began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas militants killed around 1,200 Israelis and took some 250 hostages into Gaza. The deal has three phases. The first will see the staggered release of 33 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza…
Shorouk Express Related: Celebratory gunshots in Beirut after Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire brokered For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Hamas has accepted a ceasefire deal with Israel, bringing…
On Oct. 9, 2023, two days after Hamas-led assaults in southern Israel, then-Protection Minister Yoav Gallant declared a “full siege” of Gaza, promising: “There will likely be no electrical energy, no meals, no water, no gas, every little thing is closed.” In response to Human Rights Watch, Israel’s denial of water to the Palestinians quantities…
FILE – Mohammad Shouman carries the physique of his daughter, Masa, who was killed in an Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, throughout her funeral in Rafah, southern Gaza, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photograph/Fatima Shbair, File) A military veteran with a tour in Iraq and over a decade of State Division postings throughout Asia, Mike…
