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Netanyahu delays Palestinian prisoner release over ‘humiliating ceremonies’

Two hostages were forced to watch others being freed and beg for their freedom

By JC Reporter

3 min read

Evyatar David and Guy Gilboa-Dalal were forced to watch a release ceremony and beg for their freedom (Photo: X)

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

Hostages

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

By Lorin Bell-Cross

1 min read

(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)

Hostages

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

By Imogen Garfinkel

5 min read

Stop the Hate UK

Hundreds mourn Bibas family in ‘funeral’ outside Parliament

By Daniel Ben-David

3 min read

Kevin and Kerry Von Erich tussle over the WCCW Heavyweight Championship (Image: Reddit)

Sport

How the world’s most popular wrestling championship ended up in a Tel Aviv shopping centre

By Jacob Jaffa

3 min read

The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has said that the parading of hostages' coffins in Gaza this morning violated international law (Image: Getty)

United Nations

Parading coffins of dead hostages in Gaza a violation of international law, says UN human rights official

By Imogen Garfinkel

1 min read

Hostages

British-linked peace activist Oded Lifshitz identified among deceased hostages returned to Israel

By Nathan Jeffay

4 min read

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Dozens of Jewish media figures sign letter questioning BBC over ‘propaganda’ documentary

The broadcaster has been accused of using a child narrator with family ties to Hamas in the film, which recorded the experiences of young people in Gaza.

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

February 19, 2025 17:03

A group of prominent Jewish media figures have signed a letter to the BBC expressing concern over a recent documentary about Gaza (Image: Getty)

Hamas says it will free all remaining hostages in single swap in phase two of ceasefire deal

The terror group is reportedly demanding a full IDF withdrawal from Gaza and permanent ceasefire in return

By Imogen Garfinkel

1 min read

February 19, 2025 15:53

Posters of Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, Kfir and Ariel, plastered outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, now informally called the "Hostages Square". (Getty Images)

BBC accused of using child narrator with Hamas family ties in ‘propaganda’ documentary

The teen is alleged to be the son of a senior Hamas official and the nephew of the director of an NGO with ‘links to the PFLP’

By Imogen Garfinkel

2 min read

February 19, 2025 14:00

The BBC has been criticised for platforming 'Hamas propaganda' in its latest Gaza documentary. (Credit: BBC)

MDA launches new mission inviting volunteers to support Israel’s post-October 7 recovery

Participants will visit the Druze community in the north and spend a night in Tel Aviv, hearing stories from medics and citizens rebuilding their lives post-war

By Imogen Garfinkel

1 min read

February 19, 2025 12:25

The MDA UK Resilience Mission invites volunteers to witness the recovery of Israel following October 7. (Photo: MDA UK)

IDF soldiers forced to end Amsterdam trip over ‘safety concerns’

The men’s holiday pictures were circulated online by pro-Palestine activists, prompting security fears

By JC Reporter

1 min read

February 19, 2025 10:34

Two Israeli soldiers have been forced to leave Amsterdam due to 'safety concerns', the IDF has announced. Pictured: Pro-Palestine protestors hold a demonstrations in Amsterdam on October 16, 2024 (Image: Getty)

‘It could be a civil war’: can Israel persuade the Charedim to enlist?

A long-standing internal conflict over military exemption for the strictly Orthodox has reached breaking point

By Imogen Garfinkel

7 min read

February 19, 2025 09:22

Strictly Orthodox Jews protest against the recruitment of Charedim to the IDF, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim, February 3, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90

By Gloria Tessler

My dream of peace for Jews and Arabs in the Middle East

My emotions go back and forth, but I dare to hope for a better future

3 min read

February 19, 2025 09:12

Israeli and Palestinian youths from the Gush Shalom (coalition for peace) demonstrate at the northern entrance of Jerusalem on June 11, 1994, for a peace solution without the Jewish settlements and for "Jerusalem a capital for two states". (Photo by Yoav LEMMER / AFP) (Photo by YOAV LEMMER/AFP via Getty Images)

BBC journalist who gushed over Holocaust revisionist is nominated for British Council award

Layla Bashar Al-Kloub has previously been criticised by Jewish peers about media bias against the Jewish state

By Imogen Garfinkel

3 min read

February 18, 2025 16:54

BBC Arabic journalist Layla Bashar Al-Kloub, nominated for a British Council award, has previously condemned the 'Zionist entity'

Hamas claims Bibas children’s bodies will be among four returned this week

The two boys were the youngest hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 and were aged just four and nine months at the time

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

February 18, 2025 14:08

Hamas has reportedly confirmed that the Bibas children will be among the deceased hostages returned to Israel this week (Image: Getty)

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Netanyahu delays Palestinian prisoner release over ‘humiliating ceremonies’

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

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

Hundreds mourn Bibas family in ‘funeral’ outside Parliament

How the world’s most popular wrestling championship ended up in a Tel Aviv shopping centre

Parading coffins of dead hostages in Gaza a violation of international law, says UN human rights official

British-linked peace activist Oded Lifshitz identified among deceased hostages returned to Israel

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