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January 25, 2025
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Hamas Releases 4 Israeli Female Soldiers as Hostages

According to Arab media reports, Hamas has handed over the Israeli hostages to the Red Crescent. The Red Crescent vehicles have departed towards Rafah with the hostages. The released female…

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Opinion & Blogs
May 7, 2024
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Israeli airstrikes persist in Rafah despite ceasefire uncertainty

As pressure mounts for a ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the city of Rafah is caught in a precarious balance, with conflicting signals from both sides leaving…

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Opinion & Blogs
May 3, 2024
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US Democrats press Biden to prevent Israeli assault on Rafah

Washington: US President Joe Biden’s administration faced renewed pressure from fellow Democrats on Wednesday to effect a full-scale invasion of Rafah, home to half of the 2.3 million people in…

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Opinion & Blogs
March 11, 2024
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Palestinians prepare for Ramazan in the shadow of Gaza war

CAIRO/JERUSALEM/RAFAH: Palestinians prepared for Ramazan in a somber mood with heightened security by Israeli police and the specter of war and hunger in Gaza overshadowing the normally festive Muslim holy…

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Opinion & Blogs
March 6, 2024
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Gaza ceasefire deal is in Hamas’ hands: Biden

RAFAH: United States (US) President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that a Gaza ceasefire deal in exchange for the release of Israeli hostages was in the hands of Hamas, as…

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Opinion & Blogs
March 4, 2024
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Israel boycotts ceasefire talks after Hamas refuses to share hostages’ list

CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza Strip: Israel boycotted cease-fire talks in Cairo on Sunday after Hamas rejected its demand for a full list of the names of hostages who are still alive, an…

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Opinion & Blogs
February 23, 2024
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Israel intensifies strikes on Gaza’s Rafah, killing large family in home

GAUZE: Israel has stepped up its bombardment of Rafah in southern Gaza, killing more than a dozen members of one family in an airstrike, residents said, as the death toll…

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Opinion & Blogs
February 22, 2024
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Satellite images show wall construction near Egypt-Gaza border

SINAI/RAFAH: Satellite images on Thursday showed an area that sources said Egypt is preparing near the Gaza border to accommodate Palestinians if Israel’s Rafah offensive triggers an exodus across the…

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Opinion & Blogs
February 18, 2024
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Israel bombards Gaza’s biggest functioning hospital

RAFAH: Gaza’s largest functioning hospital was under siege by Israel’s war with Hamas on Friday, leaving patients and doctors helpless in the chaos as warplanes pounded Rafah, the last refuge…

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Opinion & Blogs
February 18, 2024
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Israel struck Palestinian police escorting Gaza aid, says US envoy

WASHINGTON: The top US diplomat involved in humanitarian aid to Gaza said on Friday that Israeli forces earlier this month killed Palestinian police protecting a UN convoy in the enclave’s…

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Pakistan
February 16, 2024
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Pakistan calls for UNSC’s urgent intervention to impose ceasefire in Gaza

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to fulfill its responsibility under the UN Charter and act urgently to establish a ceasefire and end the…

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Opinion & Blogs
February 15, 2024
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Israel’s Rafah invasion would create ‘a human disaster beyond imagination’, WHO doctors warn

United Nations: A large-scale Israeli assault on Rafah would cause an “unimaginable human catastrophe,” World Health Organization (WHO) doctors in Gaza have warned. Dr Rik Peeperkorn, a WHO representative based…

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Opinion & Blogs
February 13, 2024
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Israel frees two captives as airstrikes kill 67 Palestinians

GAUZE: Israel freed two Israeli-Argentine hostages in Rafah on Monday under cover of airstrikes that local health officials said killed 67 Palestinians and wounded dozens in the southern Gaza city,…

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Opinion & Blogs
February 9, 2024
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Israeli forces intensify strikes on Rafah in southern Gaza

DOHA/TEL AVIV: Israeli forces bombed areas in the southern border town of Rafah, home to more than half of Gaza’s population, on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

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Opinion & Blogs
February 7, 2024
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Living among the dead: Gaza families seek shelter in graveyard

RAFAH: Displaced again and again by Israel’s military offensive on Gaza, Mahmoud Amer and his family have now pitched their tent near gravestones in a Rafah cemetery, the last place…