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50 hostages could be released in exchange for 6-week ceasefire says Israel

Hamas has agreed to terms for first phase of hostage release says Israeli official

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Demonstrators hold placards during an anti-government protest calling for action to secure the release of Israeli hostages held captive since the October 7 attacks by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, in front of the Israeli Defence Ministry in Tel Aviv on November 2, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the militant Hamas group. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Ireland's Prime Minister Simon Harris and Michel Martin recognise a Palestinian state (Getty Images)

Irish prime minister is an ‘antisemite’, says Israeli foreign minister

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The Nova music festival memorial site (Photo: Getty Images)

Hostages could be home for Chanukah as hopes of a deal grow

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Pro-Palestinian protesters rally in support of Gaza and Lebanon in Times Square, New York City. (Getty Images)

Orli Peter

How Hamas fooled the media: A neuroscientist’s view

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A new report by the Henry Jackson Society claims to have found significant errors in the Gaza health ministry's casualty figures. (Photo by YAHYA HASSOUNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Hamas death tolls deliberately inflated to malign Israel, new report finds

By Eliana Jordan

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets UNRWA's Philippe Lazzarini (Image: Sir Keir Starmer/X).

Starmer accused of giving taxpayers’ money ‘to Hamas’ over £13m boost for Unwra

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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Eli Feldstein a former spokesman in the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleged of illegal access and leaking of classified intelligence material (Image: Kan screenshot)

Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu aide released to house arrest amid scandal over classified documents leak

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Israel ‘optimistic’ about prospect of hostage deal

Reports that Israel and Hamas are exchanging a list of names for hostage release

By Jane Prinsley

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December 9, 2024 15:16

Hostage release talks have been revitalised with Israel saying the prospect of a deal is 'more optimistic than before' (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Heads of UNRWA schools were Hamas members according to documents found by Israel

In October, the Knesset voted to ban UNRWA, with the Foreign Ministry calling the refugee agency ‘rotten’

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December 9, 2024 14:27

Hamas executed six hostages underground, says IDF

The hostages were murdered in August, the IDF has concluded

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December 5, 2024 11:15

Recently recovered deceased hostages: Top (from left) Nadav Popplewell, Yoram Metzger and Avraham Munder; bottom (from left) Chaim Peri, Yagev Buchshtav and Alex Dancyg. Credit: Courtesy.

Seth J. Frantzman

By Seth J. Frantzman

Are Israel and Hamas about to reach a deal?

The imminent arrival of President Trump has changed the dynamics

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December 5, 2024 09:55

Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip (Getty Images)

Yaakov Katz

The uprising in Syria is providing a convenient distraction for Bibi

Israel’s security policy must be rooted in more than immediate threats and tactical distractions

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December 5, 2024 07:30

Syrian regime airstrikes target anti-regime fighters in Aleppo, in northern Syria on November 30 (Getty)

Starmer raised Emily Damari’s plight with Emir of Qatar

Party leaders paid tribute to Mandy Damari’s campaign in Commons

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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December 4, 2024 17:35

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Credit: House of Commons)

Nigel Farage meets Emily Damari’s mother and accuses government of ‘pandering’ to Hamas

Reform UK’s leader said the government had ‘written off’ Britain’s Jewish population

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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December 4, 2024 14:40

Nigel Farage (right) with Emily Damari's mother Mandy (Image: Nigel Farage, X/Twitter)

Released hostage Amit Soussana says Trump’s words offer ‘hope’

A London audience heard details of her time in Hamas captivity which included being sexually assaulted, beaten, tortured and kept in chains

By Jane Prinsley

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December 3, 2024 17:17

Amit Soussana who was held hostage by Hamas spoke to a London crowd on Monday and said Donald Trump's words offered 'hope' for the hostages still held in Gaza (Pictures in Kfar Aza, Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Nicole Lampert

By Nicole Lampert

Why is our government hosting Qatar while threatening Israeli leaders with arrest?

One of these countries is an illiberal autocracy, and it’s not Israel

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December 3, 2024 15:41

King Charles III and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (Getty Images)

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