Hamas

Senior Hamas official says he wouldn’t have backed October 7 if he had known the consequences

Foreign affairs official Mousa Abu Marzouk told the New York Times that the group was willing to negotiate over its armaments

By Ellie Grant

2 min read

Senior Hamas official, Moussa Abu Marzouk speaks to media in Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza strip (Picture: Flash90)

Hostages

Family of hostages forced to watch release ceremony share their heartbreak

By Amelie Botbol

4 min read

The UK Foreign Office has called on Hamas to immediately return Shiri Bibas to Israel (Image: Flash90)

Bibas Family

Thousands expected to pay respects to Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas along funeral procession route

By JC Reporter

1 min read

Shiri Bibas and her children Kfir and Ariel (Picture: Flash90)

By Claudia Mendoza

How could Hamas parade the coffins of the Bibas brothers without universal outrage?

2 min read

Leader of the Opposition Kemi Badenoch has called for an investigation into 'systemic bias' against Israel at the BBC (Image: Getty)

BBC

Kemi Badenoch calls for investigation into ‘systemic BBC bias against Israel’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

Bibas Family

Bibas family to hold private funeral for slain hostages Shiri, Ariel and Kfir

By Ellie Grant

3 min read

Fatah

Fatah will ‘integrate’ freed Palestinian prisoners into ‘national frameworks’

By JC Reporter

2 min read

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Hostages starved, chained and kept in darkness say families

Some of the returned hostages are unresponsive according to their relatives

By Ellie Grant

3 min read

February 23, 2025 11:18

Six hostages are set to be released on Saturday (top L-R) Omer Shem-Tov, Omer Wenkert, Tal Shoham (bottom L-R) Eliya Cohen, Hisham al-Sayed, Avera Mengistu

BBC accused of ‘whitewashing’ Hamas propaganda following Bibas body release

An insider told the JC that the corporation’s reporting raises ‘serious questions’ that need to be addressed.

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

February 21, 2025 18:31

BBC correspondent Paul Adams has been criticised for his social media posts and a recent report on the release of slain Israeli hostages (Photo: BBC)

Exclusive: Foreign Office demands return of Shiri Bibas to Israel following ‘abhorrent’ fake handover

Shiri’s two sons, Ariel and Kfir, have been identified among the dead, with Israeli officials saying they were murdered by Hamas terrorists using their ‘bare hands’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

February 21, 2025 17:24

Arab leaders are slowly realising that Hamas has to go

Trump’s hardball approach to Gaza appears to be pushing other countries in the region to come up with viable plan

By Michael Sharnoff

3 min read

February 21, 2025 17:04

Terrorists at the site of the handover of hostage bodies including those of the Bibas family (Photo by SAEED JARAS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

‘The terrorist who murdered my family has been set free — but I back the Israel-Hamas deal’

Oran Almog was only 10 when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a Haifa restaurant and killed his family

By Imogen Garfinkel

5 min read

February 21, 2025 14:51

(From left) Oran, his father Moshik, and his little brother Tomer. Moshik, Tomer, Almog's cousin Assaf, and his grandparents Ze'evik and Ruthie were killed in a 2003 terrorist attack. (Courtesy of Oran Almog)

Kfir and Ariel Bibas were murdered by terrorists’ ‘bare hands’ and corpses mutilated by Hamas

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said that Yarden Bibas ‘wanted the world to know’ what happened to his sons

By Ellie Grant

1 min read

February 21, 2025 14:34

Poster bearing the portraits of Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas (C) and her two children Ariel (L) and Kfir (R) (Picture: Getty)

Pro-Hamas Malaysian PM ‘told to tone down Gaza rhetoric to head off Trump tariffs’

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s advisers are reportedly worried about how his stance will play with the US president

By JC Reporter

2 min read

February 21, 2025 11:25

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at Downing Street on January 15, 2025 in London (Picture: Getty)

Who are the six Israeli hostages set to be released on Saturday?

Two of the six hostages have been in Hamas captivity for a decade

By Ellie Grant

4 min read

February 21, 2025 08:50

By Rosa Doherty

If the bodies of babies can’t make the world care about Jewish lives, nothing can

It is not the silence itself that is earth-shattering. It is the decision to be silent about this, but not of other’s suffering.

3 min read

February 21, 2025 07:34

Kfir Bibas was just nine months old when he was abducted (Image: Getty)

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Hamas

Senior Hamas official says he wouldn’t have backed October 7 if he had known the consequences

Family of hostages forced to watch release ceremony share their heartbreak

Thousands expected to pay respects to Shiri, Ariel and Kfir Bibas along funeral procession route

How could Hamas parade the coffins of the Bibas brothers without universal outrage?

Kemi Badenoch calls for investigation into ‘systemic BBC bias against Israel’

Bibas family to hold private funeral for slain hostages Shiri, Ariel and Kfir

Fatah will ‘integrate’ freed Palestinian prisoners into ‘national frameworks’

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Arab leaders are slowly realising that Hamas has to go

‘The terrorist who murdered my family has been set free — but I back the Israel-Hamas deal’

Kfir and Ariel Bibas were murdered by terrorists’ ‘bare hands’ and corpses mutilated by Hamas

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If the bodies of babies can’t make the world care about Jewish lives, nothing can