Q&A: Will the Gaza cease-fire last ? – a conversation with Marc Lynch
Daniel Block
Foreign Affairs / January 17, 2025
On January 17, after more than a year of war, Israel and Hamas struck a cease-fire agreement. The three-phase deal, which kicks off next week, will stop the fighting for the 42 days. During that time, Israel will withdraw from the Gaza Strip’s...
The terrible cost of peace between Israel and Hamas: in numbers
Alexander Butler & Tom Watling
The Independent / January 17, 2025
In the wake of the Hamas attack that killed around 1,200 Israelis – with another 250 taken hostage – more than 46,700 Palestinians have been killed, while 1.9 million have been displaced from their homes.
After 15 gruelling months, a ceasefire...
‘Happiness, sadness, grief and worry’ across Israel and Gaza following ceasefire deal agreement
Bel Trew
The Independent / January 17, 2025
People are celebrating in the streets as a ceasefire deal is reached, but they still have 72 hours to wait.
Tel-Aviv – A digital clock that towers over “Hostages Square” in Tel Aviv has been ticking for the last 466 days. It marks the...
How to engage with Israelis who don’t fully support Palestinian rights
Alain Alameddine
The Electronic Intifada / January 17, 2025
It is not easy for Palestinians and allies who espouse Palestinian liberation to navigate dealing with Jewish Israelis.
On the one hand, they are occupying Palestinian land in several ways.
First, most of them are geographically living in the territory of Palestine, some literally...
Israel security cabinet approves Gaza ceasefire agreement
Lorenzo Tondo and Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem
The Guardian / January 17, 2025
Ratification comes after delay led to fears that deal would come unstuck. It now passes to full cabinet for signoff.
Israel’s security cabinet has ratified a ceasefire deal to exchange dozens of hostages held by Hamas for Palestinians in...
After the ceasefire, Gazans face a different kind of war – but we’re still...
Al-Meqdad Jamil Meqdad
The Guardian / January 17, 2025
Thousands of Palestinians are homeless, their houses reduced to rubble. It could take decades to rebuild their lives.
Al-Meqdad Jamil Meqdad
The ceasefire news came suddenly, with an agreement we had heard before, surrounded by bureaucracy, hope and death. People all around me in...
Israel security team to discuss Gaza ceasefire as airstrikes continue
Bethan McKernan, Lorenzo Tondo & Andrew Roth
The Guardian / January 17, 2025
Netanyahu’s office says cabinet will convene on Friday amid concerns the delay could slow start of truce.
Jerusalem/Washington – Israel’s security cabinet will meet on Friday after negotiators reached a deal for the release of hostages as part of...
‘We will be betrayed’: cold, fearful and still under fire, Gaza’s people wait
Malak A Tantesh & Jason Burke
The Guardian / January 17, 2025
Palestinians describe grief and anxiety as they seek news that the ceasefire is going ahead, and airstrikes continue.
Gaza – Amid continuing airstrikes, bitter cold and news of delays, millions in Gaza were waiting anxiously on Thursday for confirmation that...
Netanyahu says deal to release hostages held in Gaza has been reached after last...
Tia Goldenberg, Wafaa Shurafa & Samy Magdy
AP / January 17, 2025
TEL AVIV, Israel – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday a deal to return hostages held in the Gaza Strip has been reached, after his office said earlier there were last minute snags in finalizing a ceasefire that would...
Flooding Gaza with aid might lessen security challenge, says UNRWA chief
Michelle Nichols & Emma Farge
Reuters / January 17, 2025
UNITED NATIONS/GENEVA – Attacks on aid convoys in the Gaza Strip by looters and armed gangs could decline as humanitarian relief floods the area after the truce takes effect between Israel and Palestinian militants, the head of the U.N. Palestinian relief...
