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Bodies of four dead hostages arrive in Israel – two names released

The military confirmed that the remains were be identified at a forensics facility

By JC Reporter

1 min read

The bodies are saluted by IDF soldiers after arriving in Israel (Image: JNS)

This picture taken during a media tour organised by the Israeli army on October 3, 2025, shows an Israeli army soldier behind a mounted machine gun in the vicinity of the Jordanian Field Hospital in Gaza City. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

By Yaakov Lappin

The real bottleneck in the Gaza deal is coming up

4 min read

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset as US President Donald Trump listens on (Photo: Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

US backing for Israel freed the hostages. Can peace follow now?

3 min read

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (centre) with Prime Minister Keir Starmer and France's President Emmanuel Macron, pictured at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit (Photo: Getty)

Sir Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer expresses ‘relief’ at hostages’ release as Downing Street pressed on UK’s role in Gaza ceasefire

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with US President Donald Trump prior to the President's departure from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on May 23, 2017 (Image: Getty)

By Ronit Levine-Schnur

Trump should take Netanyahu to Sharm el-Sheikh on Air Force One – for the future of the Middle East

1 min read

Steve Witkoff

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner ‘confirm Israel’s compliance’ with phase one of Trump peace deal in Gaza visit

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Hackney

‘Ridiculous’ Hackney councillors draw criticism over meeting to ‘berate Israel’ despite Gaza ceasefire

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

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Corbyn & Sultana’s Your Party accused of sharing ‘Hamas symbol’

A spokesperson for the CST said the post ‘tells you everything you need to know about the extremism at the heart of this movement’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

October 9, 2025 15:28

A post by Corbyn and Sultana's party containing what CST say is a symbol associated with Hamas propaganda (Image: Screenshot/X).

Starmer welcomes Trump-brokered Gaza peace plan

‘This is a moment of profound relief that will be felt all around the world’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

October 9, 2025 09:32

Sir Keir Starmer (left) in a press conference in Mumbai alongside Indian prime minister Narendra Modi (Image: Getty).

Who are the hostages due to be returned under the Gaza peace deal?

A total of 48 captives remain in the Strip, only 22 of whom are believed to be alive

By Jacob Jaffa

7 min read

October 9, 2025 09:19

People look at photographs of hostages kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and taken to Gaza on October 7, 2023, at a succah in Paris, France, on October 7, 2025 (Image: Flash90)

IDF investigating reports of aid worker deaths in Gaza airstrike

Doctors Without Borders claimed that members of its staff, clad in vests marked with its logo, were killed while waiting for a bus to a nearby field hospital

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

October 6, 2025 10:39

Exterior view of MSF's global headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland (Image: Getty)

‘October 7 changed me as a doctor and also as a person’

An Israeli foot-and-ankle surgeon from the Rabin Medical Center who has been on the front line every day since the terror attack tells Elisa Bray about the day that upended everything

By Elisa Bray

4 min read

October 4, 2025 23:00

collection leg x-ray with internal fixation, high quality xray leg fracture with post operation fix bone

We will hopefully free all hostages in the next few days, says Netanyahu

Israeli PM gave a speech on Saturday night after Hamas accepted part of Trump’s peace deal on Friday

By JC Reporter

1 min read

October 4, 2025 18:28

We will hopefully free all hostages in the next few days, says Netanyahu

By The JC Leader

Manchester’s synagogue attack must be a national wake-up call

This atrocity is the bitter fruit of a culture that demonises Israel and tolerates Jew-hatred. The community must stand united – government must finally act to confront it

4 min read

October 3, 2025 13:18

Armed police officers stand with their weapons inside a Police cordon near Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 2, 2025, following the terror attack. (Image: Getty)

Israel intercepts final Gaza flotilla vessel

Climate activist turned pro-Palestine campaigner Greta Thunberg is among the crew members detained, having already been deported from Israel following a previous flotilla mission in June

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

October 3, 2025 11:01