Israel and Hamas, on Tuesday, appeared close to a deal to temporarily halt their devastating six-week war for exchange of dozens of hostages on either side. But as Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu convened his cabinet for a vote, he vowed to resume the Israeli offensive against Hamas as soon as the truce ends. “We are […]
Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries, on Saturday, called for an immediate end to military operations in Gaza. They rejected Israel’s justification of its actions against Palestinians as self-defence. The extraordinary joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate “war crimes and crimes against humanity that Israel is committing” in […]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will have “overall security responsibility” in Gaza “indefinitely” after its war with Hamas. Netanyahu also expressed openness to “little pauses” in the current fight, to facilitate the release of hostages. His comments, in an interview that aired, late Monday on ABC News, offered the clearest indication yet that Israel […]
By Abdulfatah Babatunde Thousands of Nigerians under the aegis of the Conference of Islamic Organisations (CIO) rallied at the weekend in Lagos to call on the United Nations to ask Israel to cease its bombing of Gaza and other areas. They lament that the indiscriminate destructions have brought horror not just to the Palestinians but […]
As the bloody conflict between Hamas and Israel entered its second week, concerns are mounting over the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Gaza. “Over last night, the Israeli army struck over 300 military sites and headquarters of institutions belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad,” the Israeli army said in a press statement. Since the beginning of […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the relocation of Gaza residents from the north to the south as ordered by the Israeli military is extremely dangerous. After days of airstrikes, Israeli military ordered the Palestinians in Gaza City to move south of the territory, said Guterres. “Moving more than one million people, across a […]
Hamas has threatened to kill one hostage for every Israeli airstrike “targeting innocent civilians,” a spokesperson for the Palestinian side said on Monday. This is coming two days into the devastating war on Israel. At least nine Americans have died and others remain missing after the attack, a National Security Council spokesman told CNN. Israel […]