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Green Party

Police urged to reveal what they knew about Green councillor who shared Hamas video

Abdul Malik admitted sharing a video by a spokesperson for the terrorist group, despite initially denying doing so

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

Abdul Malik (right) poses with Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer

Hamas says it has lost contact with the terrorists holding Edan Alexander in Gaza (Image: Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Israel Briefing

JC Israel Briefing Day 558: Hamas loses contact with US-Israeli hostage

By Nathan Jeffay

3 min read

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry has been found to have included decade-old fatalities in its latest death toll data (Image: Getty)

By Salo Aizenberg

Hamas’ death toll figures are a sham – and now we have proof

4 min read

Hamas

Associated Press accused of continuing employment of Hamas-linked photographer years after being tipped off

By Imogen Garfinkel

5 min read

Hostages

‘His face is no longer symmetrical’ – mother of hostage soldier on why Pesach brings particular pain

By Nicole Lampert

3 min read

Hostage campaigners have criticised a proposed ceasefire deal that would reportedly see only some of the captives freed from Gaza (Image: Flash90)

Israel Briefing

JC Israel Briefing Day 557: A new ceasefire proposal – but little relief for hostage families

By Nathan Jeffay

4 min read

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on as the US Secretary of State gives statements (Image: Getty)

Hamas

Netanyahu tells parents of Israeli hostage that new deal could free 10 captives

By Ellie Grant

2 min read

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Exclusive: Foreign Secretary confirms Hamas’ status as terror group is ‘not for changing’ amid legal challenge

David Lammy criticised the ‘barbaric’ group for refusing to release its hostages and using civilians as human shields

By Lorin Bell-Cross & Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

April 11, 2025 16:07

Foreign Secretary David Lammy has told the JC that Hamas' designation as a proscribed terrorist group is 'not for changing' (Image: Getty)

Hamas-run Health Ministry inflated Gaza death toll using decade-old fatalities

A number of people included in the latest round of supposedly official data also appeared on a similar list in 2014

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

April 11, 2025 10:51

JC Israel Briefing Day 553: Hostage returns ‘close’, claims Trump

Plus, Agam Berger’s touching account of Passover in captivity

By Nathan Jeffay

3 min read

April 11, 2025 08:13

US President Donald Trump has claimed that the return of the remaining hostages is 'close' (Image: Getty)

British lawyers representing Hamas called for ‘victory to the Intifada’ and said Zionists ‘will be hunted down’

Members of the team trying to secure the group’s de-proscription in the UK seemingly celebrated the October 7 attacks and referred to senior terrorists as ‘martyrs’

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

April 10, 2025 16:23

A London-based law firm has launched a bid on behalf of Hamas to have the group de-proscribed (Photo: Getty Images)

By Alex Hearn

Lammy’s indefensible comparison between totalitarian China and democratic Israel

The list of politicians banned by Britain is significant, and includes an Israeli. But suddenly it is considered a special affront that a nation at war is policing its borders from hostile actors

2 min read

April 10, 2025 12:45

Foreign Secretary David Lammy speaks as the United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the situation in the Middle East (photo: Getty Images)

By Phil Rosenberg

We are a family – and there is far more that unites us than divides us

The tragedy of October 7 and the ordeal of the hostages has brought the UK Jewish community together in grief, but also in determination

2 min read

April 10, 2025 11:38

Yarden Bibas being reunited with his sister, Ofri, and father, Eli (Photo: X)

JC Israel Briefing Day 552: Details emerge of Hamas’ de-proscription bid

Plus, freed hostage Liri Albag on the hate she received in Israel after criticising Netanyahu

By Nathan Jeffay

4 min read

April 10, 2025 08:32

Hamas has employed a London-based law firm to try and get itself removed from the UK's list of proscribed terrorist groups (Image: X)

British law firm working for Hamas leader launches bid to de-proscribe the terror group

Lawyers acting on behalf of senior Hamas figure argue that the terror group poses ‘no threat to Brits’

By Jane Prinsley

3 min read

April 9, 2025 17:08

Riverway Law has changed its name to Riverway to Sea following its bid to have Hamas removed from the UK's list of banned terror groups (Pictured: Riverway's Farhad Ansair (centre); Image: X)

JC Israel Briefing Day 551: Court blocks Shin Bet chief’s dismissal

Plus, Netanyahu takes the hard line on Iran

By Nathan Jeffay

4 min read

April 9, 2025 08:27

Israel's Supreme Court has blocked the firing of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar in a blow to the Netanyahu government (Image: Flash90)

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Hamas

Police urged to reveal what they knew about Green councillor who shared Hamas video

JC Israel Briefing Day 558: Hamas loses contact with US-Israeli hostage

Hamas’ death toll figures are a sham – and now we have proof

Associated Press accused of continuing employment of Hamas-linked photographer years after being tipped off

‘His face is no longer symmetrical’ – mother of hostage soldier on why Pesach brings particular pain

JC Israel Briefing Day 557: A new ceasefire proposal – but little relief for hostage families

Netanyahu tells parents of Israeli hostage that new deal could free 10 captives

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