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Hamas freed two hostages and was set to release four more from Gaza on Saturday in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, after Israel confirmed that a body handed over hours earlier was that of hostage Shiri Bibas. CBC | World News
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Furious campaigners to stage protest outside BBC over Gaza documentary
‘Enough is enough,’ say campaigners as they announce demonstration outside Broadcasting House – claiming corporation ‘has no shame’ Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Hamas returns bodies of 4 Israeli hostages, including 2 children, held in Gaza
Hamas handed over the bodies on Thursday of Israeli infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, the two youngest captives taken by Hamas in their Oct. 7, 2023, attack and among the most potent symbols of the trauma inflicted that day. CBC | World News
Read More »More than $50 billion US needed to rebuild devastated Gaza Strip: World Bank joint report
More than $ 50 billion US will be required to rebuild Gaza after Israel’s 15-month campaign against Hamas levelled it, according to an assessment released Tuesday by the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank. CBC | World News
Read More »3 Israeli hostages released in Gaza as ceasefire holds
Israeli hostages Iair Horn, Sagui Dekel-Chen and Sasha Troufanov arrived at a release site in Gaza on Saturday after Egyptian and Qatari mediators helped avert a standoff that threatened to sink a fragile ceasefire. CBC | World News
Read More »This professor once taught at Al-Azhar University in Gaza City. He returned to a campus in ruins
For the first time since the war began, Muhammad Juma Khattab returned to the campus to see what’s left of it. In the piles of rubble, the professor finds burnt books, old transcripts and office furniture as he walks the spaces he used to teach in. CBC | World News
Read More »Israel will call off Gaza ceasefire if Hamas doesn’t release hostages Saturday: Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Tuesday the ceasefire in Gaza would end and the military would resume fighting Hamas until it was defeated if the Palestinian militant group did not release hostages by midday Saturday. CBC | World News
Read More »Palestinians reject Trump plan for Gaza that wouldn’t include right to return
Under Trump’s plan, Gaza’s roughly 2.2 million Palestinians would be resettled and the United States would take control and ownership of the devastated coastal enclave, redeveloping it into what Trump has called the “Riviera of the Middle East.” CBC | World News
Read More »Israeli military withdraws from key Gaza corridor, allowing more Palestinians to return home
Israeli forces withdrew from a key corridor in Gaza on Sunday, Israeli officials and Hamas said, the latest commitment under a tenuous ceasefire that faces a major test over whether the sides can negotiate its planned extension. CBC | World News
Read More »5th hostage-prisoner swap carried out as Gaza ceasefire holds
Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over three Israeli hostages on Saturday in exchange for Palestinian detainees and prisoners in the latest stage of a ceasefire deal aimed at ending the 15-month war in Gaza. CBC | World News
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