Gaza ceasefire believed to be close as expectations grow over deal
Bel Trew & Alex Croft
The Independent / December 18, 2024
Hamas says a Gaza ceasefire will only be signed if Israel stops setting new conditions for peace
A deal for a ceasefire in Gaza that would also see Israeli hostages freed is believed to be close, with Israel and Hamas having...
‘Everything is gone’: how Israeli forces destroyed Jabaliya refugee camp
Peter Beaumont, Malak A Tantesh in Gaza & Kaamil Ahmed
The Guardian / December 18, 2024
A chronicle of Jabaliya’s destruction, using eyewitness accounts, satellite imagery and video footage.
On the morning of 9 October 2023, the Trans area of the open market in Jabaliya refugee camp was bustling. Two days into...
Netanyahu says Israel will occupy Syria buffer zone for foreseeable future
Peter Beaumont
The Guardian / December 18, 2024
Israeli PM on visit to Mount Hermon says troops will remain until ‘another arrangement’ for security is found.
Jerusalem – Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israeli troops will occupy a recently seized buffer zone in Syria for the foreseeable future, as efforts continue to reach...
[VIDEO] Netanyahu says Israeli troops will occupy a buffer zone inside Syria for the...
Melanie Lidman
AP / December 18, 2024
JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israeli forces will stay in a buffer zone on the Syrian border, seized after the ouster of Syria’s President Bashar Assad, until another arrangement is in place “that ensures Israel’s security.”
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Palestinian families sue Biden administration over ‘failure’ to sanction Israel for human rights abuses
Alex Woodward
The Independent / December 17, 2024
Gaza residents and their American families accuse the State Department of creating illegal loopholes on Israel’s behalf to evade federal law blocking aid to foreign militaries complicit in human rights abuses.
New York – President Joe Biden’s administration is violating U.S. law that blocks...
2025 budget bill – Israel’s Knesset narrowly passes first reading
TPC Staff
The Palestine Chronicle / December 17, 2024
The Israeli business news website Globes said the budget includes an extra 10 billion shekels ($2.8 billion) that has been “set aside for if the war continues.”
The Israeli parliament has narrowly passed the 2025 Budget Bill in its first reading amid differences...
Fighting Israel’s war – why the Palestinian Authority is attacking Jenin
Robert Inlakesh
The Palestine Chronicle / December 17, 2024
Although the PA was intended to be the precursor organization to a Palestinian government of the incoming State of Palestine, it has instead been turned into a corrupted proxy force that works for Israeli interests and the economic endeavours of its top...
Israel launches ‘most violent’ strikes on Syrian coast as it vows to double settler...
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar
The Independent / December 16, 2024
Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will ‘hold onto it, cause it to blossom and settle in it’.
Israel plans to double the numbers of settlers in the occupied Golan Heights in Syria despite repeated calls to withdraw its troops from the land it seized...
Israel accuses Ireland of ‘extreme anti-Israel policies’ as it moves to close embassy
Jonathan McCambridge
The Independent / December 16, 2024
Irish premier Simon Harris said he ‘utterly rejected’ the assertion that Ireland is anti-Israel.
Israel has said it will close its Dublin embassy, accusing Ireland of “crossing every red line”.
Foreign minister Gideon Saar announced the closure in a statement due to the “extreme anti-Israel...
Israel occupies 3 new villages in southern Syria
Middle East Monitor / December 15, 2024
Israel has occupied three new villages in southern Syria as Tel Aviv deepened its military incursion into the country following the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime, Anadolu reports.
Israeli army forces seized Jamlah in Daraa province and the villages of Mazraat Beit Jinn...
