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‘Close this deal’: Hamas seeks changes to ceasefire plan as Hezbollah launches rocket barrage
Hamas says its “amendments” aim to guarantee a permanent ceasefire while Hezbollah attacked northern Israel, hours after an airstrike killed a senior commander.
- by Bassem Mroue and Jack Jeffery
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Key member of Israel’s war cabinet quits, citing frustrations with Netanyahu
Benny Gantz accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of mismanaging the war effort and putting his own “political survival” over Israel’s security needs.
- by Melanie Lidman
Israel rescues four hostages in raid Palestinians say killed 210
Israel’s largest hostage rescue operation since the war began saved four hostages from central Gaza amid a heavy air and ground assault.
- by Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi
Noa spent 245 days captured by Hamas. Then an IDF soldier knocked on the door
The freed Israeli hostage spoke about the moment of her rescue, eight months after Hamas terrorists dragged her away from the now-infamous Nova music festival.
- by Nicola Smith and Melanie Swan
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Israeli strike kills dozens at UN-run Gaza school
It was the latest instance of mass casualties among Palestinians trying to find refuge as Israel expands its offensive.
- by Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy
Israel targets Americans with fake accounts to support Gaza war
The operation is the first documented case of the Israeli government’s organising a campaign to influence the US government, social media experts said.
- by Sheera Frenkel
‘Mark of disgrace’: Israel declares four hostages dead in Gaza
Monday’s announcement heightens pressure on the Israeli government to agree to a US ceasefire proposal.
‘Not a good deal’: Netanyahu aide claims Israel has accepted Biden’s Gaza plan
Joe Biden has hailed several ceasefire proposals over the past several months, each with similar frameworks to the one he outlined on Friday, all of which collapsed.
- by Dan Williams
Biden says Hamas ‘no longer capable’ of major attack, proposes total ceasefire
The US president called the three-phase plan proposed by Israel “a road map to an enduring ceasefire and the release of all hostages”.
- by Aamer Madhani, Chris Megerian and Darlene Superville
Iran’s top leader praises pro-Palestine student protesters in the US
Writing from a country where protest is violently suppressed, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said they were standing on the right side of history.
- by Chris Zappone
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
When you force people into a ‘safe zone’ then bomb it, ‘whoops’ doesn’t quite cut it
What happens you instruct a million people to go to a tiny area, then bomb that place? Melting bodies. Netanyahu can’t call the Rafah deaths a “tragedy” of hindsight.
- by Waleed Aly