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US recruiting Palestinians for interim Gaza government

The White House also dismissed claims that Hamas had violated the ceasefire by delaying further hostage releases

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Palestinians walk along Al-Rashid road toward Gaza City from Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on October 10, 2025 (Image: Getty Images)

The crowd in Hostages Square on October 9 after news of the Trump-brokered peace deal emerged (Image: Amelie Botbol)

Joy and optimism sweeps through Hostages Square in Tel Aviv

By Amelie Botbol

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Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani meets with the US Secretary of State at the Amiri Diwan in Doha on September 16, 2025 (Photo by NATHAN HOWARD/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Yossi Melman

By Yossi Melman

How the Israeli air strike on Hamas in Doha helped pave the way for the peace deal

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Hamas terrorists in Southern Gaza during a hostage release (Image: Getty)

Hamas agreement to release all hostages is just a ‘smart way’ to reject Trump deal, say analysts

By Orlando Radice

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Yvette Cooper in the House of Commons (Image: House of Commons).

Israel-Gaza War

There is a global consensus on ending the war in Gaza, says Yvette Cooper

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Norwegian Foreign Minister Kurt Vollebek and Yasir Arafat being asked about a talks stalemate in 1997

Edy Cohen

The six times Palestinian leaders rejected a state

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Unforeseen consequences: President Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat and Yitzahk Rabin at the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 (Image: Getty)

two-state solution

Less than half UK Jewry supports two-state solution, new poll finds

By Simon Rocker

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Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum

By Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum

The pursuit of peace is a central value in our faith

Our sources counsel us to ‘seek peace’ but the rabbis were not naive about its attainment

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March 6, 2025 12:51

The triple handshake between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (left), US President Jimmy Carter (centre) and Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin seals the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treat on the White House lawn in Washington in 1979 (photo: Getty Images)

The prize of peace with the Arab world and the Palestinians is within reach, but it needs courage

There must be a commitment to creating a new governing entity in Gaza, one that can provide stability without Israel needing to carry the burden

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February 13, 2025 16:38

Palestinians outside their home in Gaza on February 9, 2025 (Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

The Trump ‘plan’ is immoral and could ignite the region

If Trump’s idea were to become reality, a military front opening against Israel along a 300km border with Jordan would be a real possibility

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February 13, 2025 16:36

Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2022 (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

We could support Trump if he seeks the ‘ultimate’ Middle East deal, says leader of US Jewish left

Jeremy Ben-Ami has a bold new vision for Israeli-Palestinian relations

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January 24, 2025 11:52

The head of J Street, the influential liberal Zionist advocacy group, has indicated it could support Donald Trump if his policies work towards peace in the Middle East (Image:Getty)

Dealing with Jerusalem: The strange story of millennia of negotiations

The author of the million-copy bestselling biography of the Holy City writes an exclusive essay about the carve-ups of the past

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

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September 12, 2024 13:12

Dealing with Jerusalem: The strange story of millennia of negotiations

Gaza ceasefire talks ‘on the brink of collapsing’

Washington pessimistic due to Hamas's public rejections of the latest proposal

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August 21, 2024 11:50

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Bereaved Israelis and Palestinians unite for emotional Memorial Day ceremony

Grieving families called for a ‘different future’ for everybody in the region

By Rosa Doherty

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May 15, 2024 11:31

The online ceremonies were watched by tens of thousands of Israelis and Palestinians, as well as others across the globe (Photos: Combatants for Peace)

Rosa Doherty

By Rosa Doherty

If the Saturday marches were really for peace, I'd be there every week

They might not be hate marches, but they're definitely not protests for peace

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November 13, 2023 16:37

Demonstrators take part in a protest inside Charing Cross station following the 'London Rally For Palestine', in central London on November 4, 2023, as they call for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip entered southern Israel in an unprecedented attack triggering a war declared by Israel on Hamas with retaliatory bombings on Gaza. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

US and Israeli officials deny Saudi Arabia peace deal in jeopardy

Foreign minister Eli Cohen has insisted the 'Palestinian issue' will not be an obstacle to peace

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September 18, 2023 16:30

US and Israeli officials deny Saudi Arabia peace deal in jeopardy

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