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Israeli ban on UN Palestinian aid agency comes into effect<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//27//tens-of-thousands-return-to-devastated-northern-gaza-as-israel-lifts-its-closure-under-tru/">Tens of thousands return to devastated northern Gaza as Israel lifts its closure under truce<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Their names are Watchara Sriuan, Bannawat Seatho, Sathian Suwannakham, Pongsak Tanna and Surasak Lamnau.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand's government said a total of six of its nationals were being held captive in Gaza, with Nattapong Pinta's whereabouts still unknown. Two other Thai hostages are believed to be dead. <\/p>\n<p>The names of all the prisoners that were set to be released from their sentences in Israel are not known but include 32 serving life sentences and 30 women and children.<\/p>\n<p>Zakaria Zubeidi, a prominent former militant leader and theatre director who took part in a dramatic jailbreak in 2021, was slated as one of the people to be released. <\/p>\n<p>So far, seven female hostages have been freed in exchange for more than 290 Palestinians from Israeli jails. <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, a fourth hostage release involving three men is scheduled to take place, according to the Israeli government. <\/p>\n<p>The ceasefire agreement was reached this month after a year of painstaking negotiations brokered by the US, Egypt and Qatar. 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UNWRA BAN","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Israeli ban on UN Palestinian aid agency comes into effect","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Israeli ban on UN Palestinian aid agency begins","titleListing2":"Israeli ban on UN Palestinian aid agency comes into effect","leadin":"The laws block the UNRWA from operating on Israeli territory and prohibit Israeli officials from having any contact with the agency.","summary":"The laws block the UNRWA from operating on Israeli territory and prohibit Israeli officials from having any contact with the agency.","keySentence":"","url":"israeli-ban-on-un-palestinian-aid-agency-comes-into-effect","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/30\/israeli-ban-on-un-palestinian-aid-agency-comes-into-effect","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israeli laws banning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which were passed last October, come into effect on Thursday.\n\nThe most immediate impact will be in east Jerusalem, which Israel annexed in a move not recognised by most of the international community. UNRWA's headquarters, which are located there, face an immediate shutdown. \n\nBut the bans also threaten to undermine UNRWA's operations across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, where it is the lifeline for some two million Palestinians, most of whom are homeless from the 15-month Israel-Hamas war.\n\nIsrael has long criticized UNRWA, contending it perpetuates Palestinians' refugee status. But the campaign against the agency has intensified from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other right-wing politicians since Hamas' 7 October attack on southern Israel. \n\nIsraeli claims that around a dozen of UNRWA\u2019s 13,000 employees in Gaza participated in the attack and that many others support or sympathise with Hamas.\n\nThe agency denies knowingly aiding armed groups and says it acts quickly to purge any suspected militants among its staff.\n\nHow the laws will be implemented - and whether UNRWA operations will be forced to halt - is so far unclear and even UNRWA officials say they don\u2019t know what will happen.\n\nSome authorities said police on Thursday would shut down the agency\u2019s headquarters and its installations in Israeli territory, which they say includes east Jerusalem.\n\nBut an Israeli government official with knowledge of the law\u2019s details said there was no intention to physically shut down institutions, only that it will become harder for the agency to operate without coordination with Israeli authorities. \n\nA total shutdown would end primary healthcare for up to 80,000 Palestinians in east Jerusalem through some two dozen medical centres, UNRWA officials say. It would also halt education and vocational training for up to 1,000 kids in the middle of a school year.\n\nThere are no municipal schools inside Shuafat camp, meaning kids who leave UNRWA schools would have to make their way in and out daily through the Israeli checkpoints to still unknown destinations.\n\nThe crackdown also threatens UNRWA's role as the backbone of humanitarian logistics in the region, aid workers say. \n\nIf the headquarters is shut down, there will be \"very, very serious,\" social security implications, Jonathan Fowler, UNRWA\u2019s senior communications manager, said from the east Jerusalem compound. \n\nThe agency provides a vast sweep of basic services to 1.1 million Palestinians in the West Bank and 2 million in Gaza. \n\nDuring the Israel-Hamas war, it has been the main agency ensuring delivery of food, medical supplies and other aid that Gaza's population relies on to survive. \n\nIsrael claims aid support should be redirected to other UN agencies and other NGOs operating in Gaza.\n\nSupport from the US\n\nUS funding for the agency was suspended by the Biden administration in January 2024 following the accusations that UNWRA employees had taken part in the Hamas attack.\n\nThe funding freeze that went through the US Congress under Biden is set to last until March 2025. US backing of Israel was further bolstered after the recently elected Donald Trump administration said it supports its decision to close UNWRA's office, adding that the agency's alleged ties to Hamas have \"tainted\" its work and credibility.\n\nUS deputy Ambassador Dorothy Shea told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Tuesday that there are other humanitarian organisations in Gaza with the experience and expertise to do UNRWA\u2019s job.\n\n\u201cWhat is needed is a nuanced discussion about how we can ensure that there is no interruption in the delivery of humanitarian aid and essential services,\u201d Shea said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israeli laws banning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which were passed last October, come into effect on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The most immediate impact will be in east Jerusalem, which Israel annexed in a move not recognised by most of the international community. UNRWA's headquarters, which are located there, face an immediate shutdown. <\/p>\n<p>But the bans also threaten to undermine UNRWA's operations across the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, where it is the lifeline for some two million Palestinians, most of whom are homeless from the 15-month Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has long criticized UNRWA, contending it perpetuates Palestinians' refugee status. But the campaign against the agency has intensified from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other right-wing politicians since Hamas' 7 October attack on southern Israel. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli claims that around a dozen of UNRWA\u2019s 13,000 employees in Gaza participated in the attack and that many others support or sympathise with Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>The agency denies knowingly aiding armed groups and says it acts quickly to purge any suspected militants among its staff.<\/p>\n<p>How the laws will be implemented - and whether UNRWA operations will be forced to halt - is so far unclear and even UNRWA officials say they don\u2019t know what will happen.<\/p>\n<p>Some authorities said police on Thursday would shut down the agency\u2019s headquarters and its installations in Israeli territory, which they say includes east Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>But an Israeli government official with knowledge of the law\u2019s details said there was no intention to physically shut down institutions, only that it will become harder for the agency to operate without coordination with Israeli authorities. <\/p>\n<p>A total shutdown would end primary healthcare for up to 80,000 Palestinians in east Jerusalem through some two dozen medical centres, UNRWA officials say. It would also halt education and vocational training for up to 1,000 kids in the middle of a school year.<\/p>\n<p>There are no municipal schools inside Shuafat camp, meaning kids who leave UNRWA schools would have to make their way in and out daily through the Israeli checkpoints to still unknown destinations.<\/p>\n<p>The crackdown also threatens UNRWA's role as the backbone of humanitarian logistics in the region, aid workers say. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//01//52//40//808x454_cmsv2_350e20e1-0688-5d60-99c4-e771a8b25f76-9015240.jpg/" alt=\"Donated flour is distributed to Palestinians at a UNRWA centre in the Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/52\/40\/384x216_cmsv2_350e20e1-0688-5d60-99c4-e771a8b25f76-9015240.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/52\/40\/640x360_cmsv2_350e20e1-0688-5d60-99c4-e771a8b25f76-9015240.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/52\/40\/750x422_cmsv2_350e20e1-0688-5d60-99c4-e771a8b25f76-9015240.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/52\/40\/828x466_cmsv2_350e20e1-0688-5d60-99c4-e771a8b25f76-9015240.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/52\/40\/1080x608_cmsv2_350e20e1-0688-5d60-99c4-e771a8b25f76-9015240.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/52\/40\/1200x675_cmsv2_350e20e1-0688-5d60-99c4-e771a8b25f76-9015240.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/01\/52\/40\/1920x1080_cmsv2_350e20e1-0688-5d60-99c4-e771a8b25f76-9015240.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Donated flour is distributed to Palestinians at a UNRWA centre in the Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Abdel Kareem Hana<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>If the headquarters is shut down, there will be \"very, very serious,\" social security implications, Jonathan Fowler, UNRWA\u2019s senior communications manager, said from the east Jerusalem compound. <\/p>\n<p>The agency provides a vast sweep of basic services to 1.1 million Palestinians in the West Bank and 2 million in Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>During the Israel-Hamas war, it has been the main agency ensuring delivery of food, medical supplies and other aid that Gaza's population relies on to survive. <\/p>\n<p>Israel claims aid support should be redirected to other UN agencies and other NGOs operating in Gaza.<\/p>\n<h2>Support from the US<\/h2><p>US funding for the agency was suspended by the Biden administration in January 2024 following the accusations that UNWRA employees had taken part in the Hamas attack.<\/p>\n<p>The funding freeze that went through the US Congress under Biden is set to last until March 2025. US backing of Israel was further bolstered after the recently elected Donald Trump administration said it supports its decision to close UNWRA's office, adding that the agency's alleged ties to Hamas have \"tainted\" its work and credibility.<\/p>\n<p>US deputy Ambassador Dorothy Shea told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Tuesday that there are other humanitarian organisations in Gaza with the experience and expertise to do UNRWA\u2019s job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is needed is a nuanced discussion about how we can ensure that there is no interruption in the delivery of humanitarian aid and essential services,\u201d Shea said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1738183709,"updatedAt":1738234264,"publishedAt":1738195634,"firstPublishedAt":1738195634,"lastPublishedAt":1738233974,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Mahmoud Illean","altText":"Offices of the United Nations agency for Palestinian 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ISRAELI HOSTAGES","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Eight out of 33 hostages Hamas is due to release are dead, Israel says","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Eight out of 33 hostages Hamas is due to release are dead, Israel says","titleListing2":"Eight out of 33 hostages to be released in first phase of Gaza ceasefire are dead, Israel says","leadin":"Israeli government spokesperson David Mencer told reporters on Monday that a list provided by Hamas shows 25 of the 33 hostages to be released in the first phase of the ceasefire deal are still alive.","summary":"Israeli government spokesperson David Mencer told reporters on Monday that a list provided by Hamas shows 25 of the 33 hostages to be released in the first phase of the ceasefire deal are still alive.","keySentence":"","url":"eight-out-of-33-hostages-hamas-is-due-to-release-are-dead-israel-says","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/27\/eight-out-of-33-hostages-hamas-is-due-to-release-are-dead-israel-says","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Eight out of the 33 Israeli hostages to be released in the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire are dead, according to a Hamas list seen by the Israeli government.\n\nGovernment spokesperson David Mencer told journalists Monday that the Hamas claims the other 25 are alive. \n\nIsrael has said the next release of hostages will take place on Thursday, followed by another on Saturday.\n\nWhether hostages are alive or dead inside Gaza has been a heart-breaking question for waiting families who have pushed Israel\u2019s government to reach a deal to free them, fearing that time was running out.\n\nAround 90 hostages are still being held, and Israeli authorities believe between a third and a half of them were killed in the initial attack or died in captivity.\n\nThe ceasefire reached earlier this month after more than a year of negotiations is aimed at ending the 15-month war, which was triggered by the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, as well as freeing hostages still held in Gaza in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.\n\nThe first phase of the ceasefire runs until early March and includes the release of a total of 33 hostages and nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.\n\nThe second and far more difficult phase has yet to be negotiated. Talks on phase two are set to begin next Monday \u2014 day 16 of the ceasefire reached on 19 January.\n\nHamas has said it will not release the remaining hostages without an end to the war, while Israel has threatened to resume its offensive until Hamas is destroyed.\n\nBoth sides have yet to agree on a plan to govern Gaza. Hamas has said that it would be willing to step aside, but it may still seek a hand in any future government, which Israel has rejected.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Eight out of the 33 Israeli hostages to be released in the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire are dead, according to a Hamas list seen by the Israeli government.<\/p>\n<p>Government spokesperson David Mencer told journalists Monday that the Hamas claims the other 25 are alive. <\/p>\n<p>Israel has said the next release of hostages will take place on Thursday, followed by another on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Whether hostages are alive or dead inside Gaza has been a heart-breaking question for waiting families who have pushed Israel\u2019s government to reach a deal to free them, fearing that time was running out.<\/p>\n<p>Around 90 hostages are still being held, and Israeli authorities believe between a third and a half of them were killed in the initial attack or died in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>The ceasefire reached earlier this month after more than a year of negotiations is aimed at ending the 15-month war, which was triggered by the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, as well as freeing hostages still held in Gaza in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"9006086,9005270\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//27//hamas-set-to-release-three-more-israeli-hostages-easing-first-crisis-of-ceasefire-deal/">Hamas set to release three more Israeli hostages easing first crisis of ceasefire deal<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//01//27//israeli-government-cancels-ministers-brussels-trip-citing-concrete-security-threats/">Israeli government cancels minister\u2019s Brussels trip citing \u2018concrete\u2019 security threats<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The first phase of the ceasefire runs until early March and includes the release of a total of 33 hostages and nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>The second and far more difficult phase has yet to be negotiated. Talks on phase two are set to begin next Monday \u2014 day 16 of the ceasefire reached on 19 January.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas has said it will not release the remaining hostages without an end to the war, while Israel has threatened to resume its offensive until Hamas is destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides have yet to agree on a plan to govern Gaza. Hamas has said that it would be willing to step aside, but it may still seek a hand in any future government, which Israel has rejected.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1737987898,"updatedAt":1737991485,"publishedAt":1737989612,"firstPublishedAt":1737989612,"lastPublishedAt":1737989612,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/75\/92\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b57dee09-a0c1-59a1-affa-3854ac00a640-9007592.jpg","altText":"A man places a photo of Arbel Yehoud, next to a banner in Hebrew demanding the return of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025.","caption":"A man places a photo of Arbel Yehoud, next to a banner in Hebrew demanding the return of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza Strip, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Mahmoud illean\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":3994,"height":2248}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":29226,"slug":"israel-hamas-war","urlSafeValue":"israel-hamas-war","title":"Israel Hamas war","titleRaw":"Israel Hamas war"},{"id":7878,"slug":"hostages","urlSafeValue":"hostages","title":"Hostages","titleRaw":"Hostages"},{"id":5110,"slug":"ceasefire","urlSafeValue":"ceasefire","title":"Ceasefire","titleRaw":"Ceasefire"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[{"id":2739870},{"id":2739492},{"id":2739412}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":"AP","additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":12,"urlSafeValue":"asia","title":"Asia"},"country":{"id":157,"urlSafeValue":"israel","title":"Israel","url":"\/news\/asia\/israel"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["80023001","80122003","80122006","80122022","80222003","80222006","80222022"],"slugs":["aggregated_all_moderate_content","crime_high_and_medium_risk","crime_high_medium_and_low_risk","death_and_injury_low_risk","death_and_injury_medium_risk","violence_high_and_medium_risk","violence_high_medium_and_low_risk"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/2025\/01\/27\/eight-out-of-33-hostages-hamas-is-due-to-release-are-dead-israel-says","lastModified":1737989612},{"id":2739492,"cid":9005270,"versionId":5,"archive":0,"housenumber":"250127_NWSU_57608920","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"ISRAELI HOSTAGES","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Hamas set to release three more Israeli hostages easing first crisis of ceasefire deal","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Hamas to release three more Israeli hostages under ceasefire deal","titleListing2":"Tr\u00eave \u00e0 Gaza : la lib\u00e9ration de six otages isra\u00e9liens pr\u00e9vue cette semaine","leadin":"Qatar mediated an agreement between Israel and Hamas to release Israeli hostage Arbel Yehoud and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza. The exchange is set for Thursday.","summary":"Qatar mediated an agreement between Israel and Hamas to release Israeli hostage Arbel Yehoud and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza. The exchange is set for Thursday.","keySentence":"","url":"hamas-set-to-release-three-more-israeli-hostages-easing-first-crisis-of-ceasefire-deal","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/27\/hamas-set-to-release-three-more-israeli-hostages-easing-first-crisis-of-ceasefire-deal","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Acting as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, Qatar announced early on Monday that an agreement was reached to release an Israeli hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza.\n\nThe announcement came after Israel said Arbel Yehoud, a female civilian, was supposed to be released by Hamas ahead of the four female soldiers who were released on Saturday.\n\nIsrael also accused Hamas of failing to provide details on the conditions of hostages set to be freed in the coming weeks.\n\nAs a result, Israeli authorities refused to allow safe passage for the thousands of Palestinians hoping to return to northern Gaza, as was agreed in the ceasefire deal following Saturday's hostage release.\n\nQatar\u2019s statement said Hamas would hand over the civilian hostage, Arbel Yehoud, along with two other hostages before Friday. On Monday, Israeli authorities would allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza as part of the agreement.\n\nThe office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that the hostage release \u2014 which will also include soldier Agam Berger \u2014 will take place on Thursday and confirmed that Palestinians can move north on Monday. \n\nIsrael\u2019s military said people could start crossing on foot at 7 am, which resulted in tens of thousands making their return for the first time since the war began.\n\nMixed feelings for families of hostages\n\nIn their first public comments since reuniting with their loved ones, relatives of four female Israeli soldiers freed from captivity in Gaza expressed joy and gratitude on Sunday but said their struggle will not end until all remaining hostages are home.\n\n\u201cNaama is now safe here with us, surrounded by family and friends and protected. But the struggle is not over,\" said her father, Yoni Levy, in a statement to the press at the hospital where the women are still undergoing medical evaluations.\n\n\"There are 90 remaining hostages we need to bring home. They are our sons and daughters, the foundations on which our state is founded,\u201c he added. \n\nKarina Ariev, 20, Daniella Gilboa, 20, Naama Levy, 20, and Liri Albag, 19, were released by Hamas on Saturday after more than 15 months in captivity. \n\nHospital officials have described the four women\u2019s condition as stable.\n\nIn exchange, Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners. \n\nOrly Gilboa, Daniella\u2019s mother, said her daughter \u201ccame back thin and pale,\u201d but that she was \u201cas wonderful and as talented as on the day she was kidnapped from us.\"\n\nEarlier on Sunday, the first three women freed from Gaza in the current ceasefire were released from the hospital, a spokesman for the Sheba Medical Centre said.\n\nItzik Horn, who has two sons held hostage in Gaza, says he feels happiness for the four hostages released \"out of hell\", but also fears for what will come next.\n\nIair Horn, 46, is expected to be released in the first phase of the ceasefire, but his brother Eitan, 38, is not.\n\n\"On the one hand I have one son on the list (to be released in first phase) but have another who is not,\" he said, adding that he hopes Israel will not resume fighting after the first part of the deal.\n\nHe appealed to newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump to continue to exert pressure on both negotiators and the Israeli government.\n\n\"We have to get everyone out of there,\" Itzik said.\n\nUncertainty about second phase\n\nThe ceasefire reached earlier this month after more than a year of negotiations is aimed at ending the 15-month war, which was triggered by the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, as well as freeing hostages still held in Gaza in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.\n\nAround 90 hostages are still being held, and Israeli authorities believe at least a third, and up to half of them were killed in the initial attack or died in captivity.\n\nThe first phase of the ceasefire runs until early March and includes the release of a total of 33 hostages and nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. \n\nThe second and far more difficult phase has yet to be negotiated. \n\nHamas has said it will not release the remaining hostages without an end to the war, while Israel has threatened to resume its offensive until Hamas is destroyed.\n\nDani Miran, the father of hostage Omri Miran, who is not one of the 33 to be released, also says he has put his hope in President Trump.\n\n\"I am full of hope, and most of us families put our hopes in President Trump. In President Trump because our government - they don't do anything anymore, they don't know how to make decisions, they need to be forced, to be pressured to do what is necessary to bring everyone back, everyone. I want my son back.\"\n\nTalks on phase two are set to begin next Monday \u2014 day 16 of the ceasefire reached on 19 January.\n\nIsrael has said that after the first phase of the ceasefire, it will decide how to proceed.\n\nIt has also said it won\u2019t agree to a complete withdrawal from Gaza until Hamas\u2019 military and political capabilities are eliminated. \n\nFor its part, Hamas says it won't hand over the last hostages until Israel removes all troops from the territory.\n\nBoth sides will have to agree to a plan for governing Gaza. Hamas has said that it would be willing to step aside, but it may still seek a hand in any future government, which Israel has rejected. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Acting as a mediator between Israel and Hamas, Qatar announced early on Monday that an agreement was reached to release an Israeli hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came after Israel said Arbel Yehoud, a female civilian, was supposed to be released by Hamas ahead of the four female soldiers who were released on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Israel also accused Hamas of failing to provide details on the conditions of hostages set to be freed in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Israeli authorities refused to allow safe passage for the thousands of Palestinians hoping to return to northern Gaza, as was agreed in the ceasefire deal following Saturday's hostage release.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar\u2019s statement said Hamas would hand over the civilian hostage, Arbel Yehoud, along with two other hostages before Friday. On Monday, Israeli authorities would allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza as part of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that the hostage release \u2014 which will also include soldier Agam Berger \u2014 will take place on Thursday and confirmed that Palestinians can move north on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s military said people could start crossing on foot at 7 am, which resulted in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//27//deal-reached-to-allow-displaced-palestinians-to-return-to-northern-gaza-says-qatar/">tens of thousands making their return<\/strong><\/a> for the first time since the war began.<\/p>\n<h2>Mixed feelings for families of hostages<\/h2><p>In their first public comments since reuniting with their loved ones, relatives of four female Israeli soldiers freed from captivity in Gaza expressed joy and gratitude on Sunday but said their struggle will not end until all remaining hostages are home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaama is now safe here with us, surrounded by family and friends and protected. But the struggle is not over,\" said her father, Yoni Levy, in a statement to the press at the hospital where the women are still undergoing medical evaluations.<\/p>\n<p>\"There are 90 remaining hostages we need to bring home. They are our sons and daughters, the foundations on which our state is founded,\u201c he added. <\/p>\n<p>Karina Ariev, 20, Daniella Gilboa, 20, Naama Levy, 20, and Liri Albag, 19, were released by Hamas on Saturday after more than 15 months in captivity. <\/p>\n<p>Hospital officials have described the four women\u2019s condition as stable.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange, Israel released 200 Palestinian prisoners. <\/p>\n<p>Orly Gilboa, Daniella\u2019s mother, said her daughter \u201ccame back thin and pale,\u201d but that she was \u201cas wonderful and as talented as on the day she was kidnapped from us.\"<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Sunday, the first three women freed from Gaza in the current ceasefire were released from the hospital, a spokesman for the Sheba Medical Centre said.<\/p>\n<p>Itzik Horn, who has two sons held hostage in Gaza, says he feels happiness for the four hostages released \"out of hell\", but also fears for what will come next.<\/p>\n<p>Iair Horn, 46, is expected to be released in the first phase of the ceasefire, but his brother Eitan, 38, is not.<\/p>\n<p>\"On the one hand I have one son on the list (to be released in first phase) but have another who is not,\" he said, adding that he hopes Israel will not resume fighting after the first part of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump to continue to exert pressure on both negotiators and the Israeli government.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have to get everyone out of there,\" Itzik said.<\/p>\n<h2>Uncertainty about second phase<\/h2><p>The ceasefire reached earlier this month after more than a year of negotiations is aimed at ending the 15-month war, which was triggered by the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, as well as freeing hostages still held in Gaza in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Around 90 hostages are still being held, and Israeli authorities believe at least a third, and up to half of them were killed in the initial attack or died in captivity.<\/p>\n<p>The first phase of the ceasefire runs until early March and includes the release of a total of 33 hostages and nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. <\/p>\n<p>The second and far more difficult phase has yet to be negotiated. <\/p>\n<p>Hamas has said it will not release the remaining hostages without an end to the war, while Israel has threatened to resume its offensive until Hamas is destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Dani Miran, the father of hostage Omri Miran, who is not one of the 33 to be released, also says he has put his hope in President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\"I am full of hope, and most of us families put our hopes in President Trump. In President Trump because our government - they don't do anything anymore, they don't know how to make decisions, they need to be forced, to be pressured to do what is necessary to bring everyone back, everyone. I want my son back.\"<\/p>\n<p>Talks on phase two are set to begin next Monday \u2014 day 16 of the ceasefire reached on 19 January.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has said that after the first phase of the ceasefire, it will decide how to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>It has also said it won\u2019t agree to a complete withdrawal from Gaza until Hamas\u2019 military and political capabilities are eliminated. <\/p>\n<p>For its part, Hamas says it won't hand over the last hostages until Israel removes all troops from the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides will have to agree to a plan for governing Gaza. Hamas has said that it would be willing to step aside, but it may still seek a hand in any future government, which Israel has rejected. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1737958081,"updatedAt":1737974235,"publishedAt":1737969451,"firstPublishedAt":1737969451,"lastPublishedAt":1737974235,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Ohad Zwigenberg","altText":"Demonstrators protest calling for the immediate release of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025.","callToActionText":null,"width":1280,"caption":"Demonstrators protest calling for the immediate release of the hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/00\/52\/70\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_2143cd94-186a-5730-a581-0652658d6a52-9005270.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":720}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"urlSafeValue":"de-ruiter","twitter":"@ruiter_emma","id":3168,"title":"Emma De Ruiter"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"israel-hamas-war","titleRaw":"Israel Hamas war","id":29226,"title":"Israel Hamas war","slug":"israel-hamas-war"},{"urlSafeValue":"hostages","titleRaw":"Hostages","id":7878,"title":"Hostages","slug":"hostages"},{"urlSafeValue":"ceasefire","titleRaw":"Ceasefire","id":5110,"title":"Ceasefire","slug":"ceasefire"},{"urlSafeValue":"israel","titleRaw":"Israel","id":157,"title":"Israel","slug":"israel"},{"urlSafeValue":"the-gaza-strip","titleRaw":"The Gaza Strip","id":9553,"title":"The Gaza 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ISRAEL HAMAS CEASEFIRE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"The Israel-Hamas ceasefire is a deal that cannot last","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"The Israel-Hamas ceasefire is a deal that cannot last","titleListing2":"Opinion | In truth, the first phase of the deal is relatively easy to implement and gives all parties a respite from draining conflict. After the six-week ceasefire, any extension will depend on the success of future negotiations, Soli \u00d6zel writes.","leadin":"In truth, the first phase of the deal is relatively easy to implement and gives all parties a respite from draining conflict. After the six-week ceasefire, any extension will depend on the success of future negotiations, Soli \u00d6zel writes.","summary":"In truth, the first phase of the deal is relatively easy to implement and gives all parties a respite from draining conflict. After the six-week ceasefire, any extension will depend on the success of future negotiations, Soli \u00d6zel writes.","keySentence":"","url":"the-israel-hamas-ceasefire-is-a-deal-that-cannot-last","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/22\/the-israel-hamas-ceasefire-is-a-deal-that-cannot-last","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"With the release of three civilian women on Sunday, the first phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has begun, followed a few hours later by the release of 90 prisoners from Israeli jails. \n\nThis first phase will continue for six weeks, at the end of which Hamas will release 88 hostages (whether dead or alive), and Israel will have freed a total of 1,904 Palestinian prisoners. However, the most politically important prisoner perishing in an Israeli jail, Marwan Barghouti, will not be among them. \n\nThe deal was brokered by the United States, Qatar and Egypt. The latter two seek to begin rebuilding the devastated enclave during the first phase rather than in later stages. \n\nMost commentators doubt that the deal will actually go through its second and third phases. The expectation is that absent great pressure from involved outside parties, either the Israeli government or Hamas \u2014 which made a show of force during the release of the first three hostages \u2014 will break the process as such a development would serve their interests better. \n\nOr, as Paul Pillar put it, \u201cthe negotiators reached a short-term bargain while punting more difficult issues\u201d.\n\nIn truth, the first phase of the deal is relatively easy to implement and gives all parties a respite from draining conflict. \n\nAs the hostages are exchanged with prisoners for the long-suffering and displaced Palestinians of Gaza, there will be a substantial flow of food, medicine and other basic necessities. \n\nAfter the six-week ceasefire, any extension will depend on the success of future negotiations. In the second and third phases of the deal, more hostages, some of whom may already be dead, ought to be exchanged with more prisoners. \n\nIn the meantime, Israeli forces are to withdraw completely from the Gaza Strip, something Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu consistently refused to concede in the past. \n\nThese withdrawals by the Israeli military, along with a reconstruction plan, are envisaged, but so far, those phases are just outlines of objectives and not tightly formulated.\n\nIt is widely believed that the intervention of US President Donald Trump\u2019s team and his stern warnings to the parties helped the Biden administration finally reach the elusive ceasefire deal. \n\nIrony or tragedy?\n\nThe irony or the tragedy of the deal is that the hapless outgoing American administration failed in obtaining an Israeli commitment to a ceasefire prepared by now-former President Joe Biden in May, which the Israeli side succeeded in derailing, although almost all its main tenets are embodied in the new deal.\n\nTrump made it clear that he did not want this crisis to continue to simmer as he assumed office. Indeed, his inauguration was free of Middle East troubles. Yet, based on his first decisions related to this matter and his comments about Gaza, Trump did not give the impression of being fully engaged with the plan that he forced both parties to conclude. \n\nHe told reporters on his first day in office that he is \"not confident\" that the Gaza ceasefire will last, adding that \"it\u2019s not our war; it\u2019s their war.\"\n\nHis first decisions in office also highlight his partiality towards Israel. Trump\u2019s suspension of all foreign aid for 90 days will likely affect the Palestinians, who rely on US donations to multilateral organisations as well. \n\nFurthermore, Trump reimposed sanctions against the ICC that issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Galant, lifted sanctions imposed on violent settlers by the Biden administration and decided to resume the delivery of 2,000-pound bombs to the Israeli military. \n\nThe military incursion in the West Bank town of Jenin and civilian settlers\u2019 violent attack against the village of al-Funduq and three other locations, burning cars and property, suggest that an undeclared quid pro quo for signing on to the ceasefire deal that everybody expects will not be finalised, was a free hand for Israel in the West Bank. \n\nThe fundamental problem persists\n\nThe situation on the ground in Gaza suggests that Hamas, despite the enormous beating that its military wing took, is now back in charge of providing security for the Strip and police the distribution of aid. \n\nFor all intents and purposes, this gives the image of an organisation that has not been defeated totally and annihilated despite the loss of thousands of its fighters. In fact, outgoing US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken revealed in his last press conference that Hamas was able to recruit as many fighters as it lost. \n\nThe organisation managed to replenish its forces, restore part of its infrastructure and dig bypasses to sections of tunnels that the Israeli air force destroyed. Meanwhile in Israel, the reservists in rising numbers are refusing to answer the call for duty. \n\nAll these concerns actually point to one fundamental reality: so long as Palestinians remain where they are and cannot be forcefully displaced either from Gaza or the West Bank, the fundamental problem for Israel of finding a political solution to the Palestinian problem remains as well. \n\nWhether the Trump administration will want to spend time and energy to pursue what has proved to be an elusive goal is in doubt. \n\nOnly if Saudi Arabia sticks to its commitment to a serious two-state solution to be in place before it normalises its relations with Israel would Trump pay attention to the subsequent episodes of the Israeli-Palestinian drama.\n\nSoli \u00d6zel is currently a visiting fellow at IWM (Institute f\u00fcr die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) in Vienna. Previously, he was a guest lecturer at Yale University, Harvard University, Northwestern University, and Sciences-Po Paris and Menton.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>With the release of three civilian women on Sunday, the first phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has begun, followed a few hours later by the release of 90 prisoners from Israeli jails. <\/p>\n<p>This first phase will continue for six weeks, at the end of which Hamas will release 88 hostages (whether dead or alive), and Israel will have freed a total of 1,904 Palestinian prisoners. However, the most politically important prisoner perishing in an Israeli jail, Marwan Barghouti, will not be among them. <\/p>\n<p>The deal was brokered by the United States, Qatar and Egypt. The latter two seek to begin rebuilding the devastated enclave during the first phase rather than in later stages. <\/p>\n<p>Most commentators doubt that the deal will actually go through its second and third phases. The expectation is that absent great pressure from involved outside parties, either the Israeli government or Hamas \u2014 which made a show of force during the release of the first three hostages \u2014 will break the process as such a development would serve their interests better. <\/p>\n<p>Or, as Paul Pillar put it, \u201cthe negotiators reached a short-term bargain while punting more difficult issues\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In truth, the first phase of the deal is relatively easy to implement and gives all parties a respite from draining conflict. <\/p>\n<p>As the hostages are exchanged with prisoners for the long-suffering and displaced Palestinians of Gaza, there will be a substantial flow of food, medicine and other basic necessities. <\/p>\n<p>After the six-week ceasefire, any extension will depend on the success of future negotiations. In the second and third phases of the deal, more hostages, some of whom may already be dead, ought to be exchanged with more prisoners. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Israeli forces are to withdraw completely from the Gaza Strip, something Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu consistently refused to concede in the past. <\/p>\n<p>These withdrawals by the Israeli military, along with a reconstruction plan, are envisaged, but so far, those phases are just outlines of objectives and not tightly formulated.<\/p>\n<p>It is widely believed that the intervention of US President Donald Trump\u2019s team and his stern warnings to the parties helped the Biden administration finally reach the elusive ceasefire deal. <\/p>\n<h2>Irony or tragedy?<\/h2><p>The irony or the tragedy of the deal is that the hapless outgoing American administration failed in obtaining an Israeli commitment to a ceasefire prepared by now-former President Joe Biden in May, which the Israeli side succeeded in derailing, although almost all its main tenets are embodied in the new deal.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made it clear that he did not want this crisis to continue to simmer as he assumed office. Indeed, his inauguration was free of Middle East troubles. Yet, based on his first decisions related to this matter and his comments about Gaza, Trump did not give the impression of being fully engaged with the plan that he forced both parties to conclude. <\/p>\n<p>He told reporters on his first day in office that he is \"not confident\" that the Gaza ceasefire will last, adding that \"it\u2019s not our war; it\u2019s their war.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">All these concerns actually point to one fundamental reality: so long as Palestinians remain where they are and cannot be forcefully displaced either from Gaza or the West Bank, the fundamental problem for Israel of finding a political solution to the Palestinian problem remains as well. <\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//99//36//52//808x539_cmsv2_6e53331c-f55f-589d-81d9-08baf8e1fb70-8993652.jpg/" alt=\"Palestinians look at their destroyed home, in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, January 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/36\/52\/384x256_cmsv2_6e53331c-f55f-589d-81d9-08baf8e1fb70-8993652.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/36\/52\/640x427_cmsv2_6e53331c-f55f-589d-81d9-08baf8e1fb70-8993652.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/36\/52\/750x500_cmsv2_6e53331c-f55f-589d-81d9-08baf8e1fb70-8993652.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/36\/52\/828x552_cmsv2_6e53331c-f55f-589d-81d9-08baf8e1fb70-8993652.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/36\/52\/1080x720_cmsv2_6e53331c-f55f-589d-81d9-08baf8e1fb70-8993652.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/36\/52\/1200x800_cmsv2_6e53331c-f55f-589d-81d9-08baf8e1fb70-8993652.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/36\/52\/1920x1281_cmsv2_6e53331c-f55f-589d-81d9-08baf8e1fb70-8993652.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Palestinians look at their destroyed home, in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, January 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Abdel Kareem Hana<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>His first decisions in office also highlight his partiality towards Israel. Trump\u2019s suspension of all foreign aid for 90 days will likely affect the Palestinians, who rely on US donations to multilateral organisations as well. <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Trump reimposed sanctions against the ICC that issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Galant, lifted sanctions imposed on violent settlers by the Biden administration and decided to resume the delivery of 2,000-pound bombs to the Israeli military. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8974170,8993724\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//22//israels-army-chief-resigns-over-terrible-failure-to-prevent-hamas-7-october-attack/">Israel's army chief resigns over 'terrible failure' to prevent Hamas' 7 October attack<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//16//what-role-for-the-eu-in-israeli-hamas-ceasefire-radio-schuman/">What role for the EU in Israeli-Hamas ceasefire? | Radio Schuman<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The military incursion in the West Bank town of Jenin and civilian settlers\u2019 violent attack against the village of al-Funduq and three other locations, burning cars and property, suggest that an undeclared quid pro quo for signing on to the ceasefire deal that everybody expects will not be finalised, was a free hand for Israel in the West Bank. <\/p>\n<h2>The fundamental problem persists<\/h2><p>The situation on the ground in Gaza suggests that Hamas, despite the enormous beating that its military wing took, is now back in charge of providing security for the Strip and police the distribution of aid. <\/p>\n<p>For all intents and purposes, this gives the image of an organisation that has not been defeated totally and annihilated despite the loss of thousands of its fighters. In fact, outgoing US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken revealed in his last press conference that Hamas was able to recruit as many fighters as it lost. <\/p>\n<p>The organisation managed to replenish its forces, restore part of its infrastructure and dig bypasses to sections of tunnels that the Israeli air force destroyed. Meanwhile in Israel, the reservists in rising numbers are refusing to answer the call for duty. <\/p>\n<p>All these concerns actually point to one fundamental reality: so long as Palestinians remain where they are and cannot be forcefully displaced either from Gaza or the West Bank, the fundamental problem for Israel of finding a political solution to the Palestinian problem remains as well. <\/p>\n<p>Whether the Trump administration will want to spend time and energy to pursue what has proved to be an elusive goal is in doubt. <\/p>\n<p>Only if Saudi Arabia sticks to its commitment to a serious two-state solution to be in place before it normalises its relations with Israel would Trump pay attention to the subsequent episodes of the Israeli-Palestinian drama.<\/p>\n<p><em>Soli \u00d6zel is currently a visiting fellow at IWM (Institute f\u00fcr die Wissenschaften vom Menschen) in Vienna. Previously, he was a guest lecturer at Yale University, Harvard University, Northwestern University, and Sciences-Po Paris and Menton.<\/em><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1737542020,"updatedAt":1737560314,"publishedAt":1737557938,"firstPublishedAt":1737557938,"lastPublishedAt":1737557938,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/36\/52\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_f842ad88-8afa-5ddc-a0a5-da1c36991ec8-8993652.jpg","altText":"A demonstrator paints hearts on a banner during a protest calling for the release of all hostages held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, January 2025","caption":"A demonstrator paints hearts on a banner during a protest calling for the release of all hostages held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, January 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP 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IDF CHIEF RESIGNS","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Israel's army chief resigns over 'terrible failure' to prevent Hamas' 7 October attack","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Israel's army chief resigns over failure to prevent 7 October attack","titleListing2":"Israel's army chief resigns over 'terrible failure' to prevent Hamas 7 October attack","leadin":"Lt Gen Herzi Halevi said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would complete an investigation into the 2023 attack by Hamas before he steps down in March.","summary":"Lt Gen Herzi Halevi said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would complete an investigation into the 2023 attack by Hamas before he steps down in March.","keySentence":"","url":"israels-army-chief-resigns-over-terrible-failure-to-prevent-hamas-7-october-attack","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/22\/israels-army-chief-resigns-over-terrible-failure-to-prevent-hamas-7-october-attack","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israel's army chief has resigned, taking responsibility for security failures tied to 7 October 2023, when Hamas carried out a deadly attack that triggered the war in Gaza. \n\nLt Gen Herzi Halevi announced on Tuesday that he would resign on 6 March, admitting that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) \"under my command failed in its mission to protect the citizens of Israel\". \n\n\"My responsibility for the terrible failure accompanies me every day, hour by hour, and will do so for the rest of my life,\" he wrote in his resignation letter to Defence Minister Israel Katz. \n\nMaj Gen Yaron Finkelman, head of Israel's Southern Command \u2014 which oversees operations in Gaza \u2014 also resigned on 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More than 90 captives are still being held in Gaza, around a third of whom are believed to be dead.\n\nThe IDF retaliated with an air and ground campaign in Gaza, kiling at least 47,000 Palestinians to date, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.\n\nAnnouncing his resignation in a televised address, Halevi said the IDF's investigation into the 7 October attack would be completed before he stepped down from his role in March.\n\n\"A commission of inquiry or any other external body can investigate and examine and will receive full transparency from the IDF,\" he said.\n\nHis comments are likely to put more pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has delayed any public inquiry that could potentially implicate his leadership.\n\nNetanyahu's administration has resisted appeals to open an inquiry into the government's responsibility for the attack, saying that it must wait until the war is over. \n\nHalevi and Finkelman's resignations came days after a Gaza ceasefire and hostage and prisoner exchange deal was agreed between Israel and Hamas. The ceasefire is holding in its third day, but it is unclear what will happen after the deal's first phase of 42 days.\n\nThe agreement's subsequent stages call for more releases of hostages and prisoners and a permanent end to the now 15-month war.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israel's army chief has resigned, taking responsibility for security failures tied to 7 October 2023, when Hamas carried out a deadly attack that triggered the war in Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>Lt Gen Herzi Halevi announced on Tuesday that he would resign on 6 March, admitting that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) \"under my command failed in its mission to protect the citizens of Israel\". <\/p>\n<p>\"My responsibility for the terrible failure accompanies me every day, hour by hour, and will do so for the rest of my life,\" he wrote in his resignation letter to Defence Minister Israel Katz. <\/p>\n<p>Maj Gen Yaron Finkelman, head of Israel's Southern Command \u2014 which oversees operations in Gaza \u2014 also resigned on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Halevi and Finkelman are the most senior Israeli figures to resign over the security and intelligence breakdown on 7 October, when thousands of Palestinian Hamas gunmen from Gaza carried out a land, sea and air assault into southern Israel. <\/p>\n<p>The attack \u2014 the single deadliest on Israel in its history \u2014 killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and the militants abducted another 251. More than 90 captives are still being held in Gaza, around a third of whom are believed to be dead.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF retaliated with an air and ground campaign in Gaza, kiling at least 47,000 Palestinians to date, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry. The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8984014,8984436\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//19//three-far-right-ministers-quit-israels-cabinet-over-ceasefire-deal/">Three far-right ministers quit Israel's cabinet over ceasefire deal<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//19//ceasefire-delayed-israel-says-after-hamas-fails-to-release-hostages-names/">Israel-Hamas ceasefire begins, raising hope that 15 months of war will end<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Announcing his resignation in a televised address, Halevi said the IDF's investigation into the 7 October attack would be completed before he stepped down from his role in March.<\/p>\n<p>\"A commission of inquiry or any other external body can investigate and examine and will receive full transparency from the IDF,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>His comments are likely to put more pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has delayed any public inquiry that could potentially implicate his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu's administration has resisted appeals to open an inquiry into the government's responsibility for the attack, saying that it must wait until the war is over. <\/p>\n<p>Halevi and Finkelman's resignations came days after a Gaza ceasefire and hostage and prisoner exchange deal was agreed between Israel and Hamas. The ceasefire is holding in its third day, but it is unclear what will happen after the deal's first phase of 42 days.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement's subsequent stages call for more releases of hostages and prisoners and a permanent end to the now 15-month war.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1737542581,"updatedAt":1737547622,"publishedAt":1737547597,"firstPublishedAt":1737547597,"lastPublishedAt":1737547597,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/99\/37\/24\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_3fcdf463-b1b9-5e7d-9125-b543462b239f-8993724.jpg","altText":"FILE: Israeli Chief of the General Staff Herzi Halevi attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in Jerusalem, Israel, May 6, 2024.","caption":"FILE: Israeli Chief of the General Staff Herzi Halevi attends a wreath-laying ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in Jerusalem, Israel, May 6, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Amir 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Despite initial health concerns, all three were able to walk unaided and will remain in hospital for observation.\n\nOutside the hospital, hundreds gathered, dancing and cheering to celebrate their return. \n\nThe ceasefire, raising hopes of ending the 15-month conflict, includes the phased release of 33 additional hostages over six weeks. In exchange, Israel will release nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Three Israeli hostages were reunited with their families in an emotional homecoming on Sunday, following their release as part of a ceasefire agreement. <\/p>\n<p>Romi Gonen, 24, abducted from the Nova music festival, and Emily Damari, 28, along with Doron Steinbrecher, 31, kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, returned to Israel under the truce. Despite initial health concerns, all three were able to walk unaided and will remain in hospital for observation.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the hospital, hundreds gathered, dancing and cheering to celebrate their return. <\/p>\n<p>The ceasefire, raising hopes of ending the 15-month conflict, includes the phased release of 33 additional hostages over six weeks. 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PRISONERS RELEASED","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Israel frees 90 Palestinian women and minors from prison on day two of Gaza ceasefire","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Israel frees 90 Palestinian prisoners on day two of Gaza ceasefire","titleListing2":"Israel frees 90 Palestinian women, minors from prison on day two of Gaza ceasefire","leadin":"According to a list provided by the Palestinian Authority's Commission for Prisoners' Affairs all of those released are women or minors.","summary":"According to a list provided by the Palestinian Authority's Commission for Prisoners' Affairs all of those released are women or minors.","keySentence":"","url":"israel-frees-90-palestinian-women-minors-from-prison-on-day-two-of-gaza-ceasefire","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/20\/israel-frees-90-palestinian-women-minors-from-prison-on-day-two-of-gaza-ceasefire","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israel has freed 90 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It would see Hamas release the remaining hostages, with Israel agreeing to free around 1,000 Palestinians.\n\nThe Israeli military will also complete a full troop withdrawal from Gaza during this phase.\n\nThe third and final phase covers Gaza\u2019s reconstruction, with Hamas expected to hand over the bodies of hostages who died in captivity in return for a plan for rebuilding the Strip from Israel.\n\nHamas triggered the war in October 2023 with its cross-border attack into Israel that saw some 1,200 people killed and 250 others taken as hostages back to Gaza.\n\nIsrael responded with a devastating offensive that has killed more than 46,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who do not distinguish between civilians and militants but say women and children make up more than half the dead.\n\nThe conflict has\u00a0destabilised the Middle East and sparked global protests as well as highlighting political tensions inside Israel.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israel has freed 90 Palestinian prisoners and detainees, more than seven hours after three Israeli hostages were released by Hamas and returned to Israel.<\/p>\n<p>A large bus carrying dozens of Palestinian detainees exited the gates of Israel\u2019s Ofer prison in the early hours of Monday morning, just outside the West Bank city of Ramallah.<\/p>\n<p>According to a list provided by the Palestinian Authority's Commission for Prisoners' Affairs, all of those released are women or minors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//98//53//84//808x539_cmsv2_5abbf755-e6e8-54a9-8a30-71557fa7c2b1-8985384.jpg/" alt=\"A female Palestinian prisoner is greeted after being released from an Israeli prison in Beitunia, 20 January, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/384x256_cmsv2_5abbf755-e6e8-54a9-8a30-71557fa7c2b1-8985384.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/640x427_cmsv2_5abbf755-e6e8-54a9-8a30-71557fa7c2b1-8985384.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/750x500_cmsv2_5abbf755-e6e8-54a9-8a30-71557fa7c2b1-8985384.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/828x552_cmsv2_5abbf755-e6e8-54a9-8a30-71557fa7c2b1-8985384.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/1080x720_cmsv2_5abbf755-e6e8-54a9-8a30-71557fa7c2b1-8985384.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/1200x800_cmsv2_5abbf755-e6e8-54a9-8a30-71557fa7c2b1-8985384.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/1920x1280_cmsv2_5abbf755-e6e8-54a9-8a30-71557fa7c2b1-8985384.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A female Palestinian prisoner is greeted after being released from an Israeli prison in Beitunia, 20 January, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Leo Correa\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Israel detained them for what it said were offences related to national security, from throwing stones to more serious accusations like attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>The release comes on the second day of a three-phase ceasefire, which started on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The truce was supposed to start at 7:30 am CET but was delayed to 10:15 am CET after Israel refused to implement it as it hadn\u2019t received the names of the hostages Hamas intended to release.<\/p>\n<p>Phase one of the ceasefire will see Hamas release 33 captives over six weeks in return for hundreds of Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas released three Israeli women on Sunday - Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher - who were handed to Red Cross staff in Gaza City before being transferred to the Israeli military.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//98//53//84//808x539_cmsv2_ed18bd05-88a7-5047-9da7-c72a2115ccbe-8985384.jpg/" alt=\"Israelis react while photographs of the kidnapped women awaiting release, Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari, appear on the screen in Tel Aviv, 19 January, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/384x256_cmsv2_ed18bd05-88a7-5047-9da7-c72a2115ccbe-8985384.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/640x427_cmsv2_ed18bd05-88a7-5047-9da7-c72a2115ccbe-8985384.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/750x500_cmsv2_ed18bd05-88a7-5047-9da7-c72a2115ccbe-8985384.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/828x552_cmsv2_ed18bd05-88a7-5047-9da7-c72a2115ccbe-8985384.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/1080x720_cmsv2_ed18bd05-88a7-5047-9da7-c72a2115ccbe-8985384.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/1200x800_cmsv2_ed18bd05-88a7-5047-9da7-c72a2115ccbe-8985384.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/1920x1280_cmsv2_ed18bd05-88a7-5047-9da7-c72a2115ccbe-8985384.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Israelis react while photographs of the kidnapped women awaiting release, Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari, appear on the screen in Tel Aviv, 19 January, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Oded Balilty\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>All three are currently receiving treatment in a hospital in Tel Aviv and are said to be in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israel is expected to release 30-50 Palestinians in exchange for every Hamas hostage.<\/p>\n<p>Phase two of the deal covers steps towards a permanent end to the fighting in Gaza. It would see Hamas release the remaining hostages, with Israel agreeing to free around 1,000 Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military will also complete a full troop withdrawal from Gaza during this phase.<\/p>\n<p>The third and final phase covers Gaza\u2019s reconstruction, with Hamas expected to hand over the bodies of hostages who died in captivity in return for a plan for rebuilding the Strip from Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas triggered the war in October 2023 with its cross-border attack into Israel that saw some 1,200 people killed and 250 others taken as hostages back to Gaza.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//98//53//84//808x539_cmsv2_757e8738-d5aa-56f7-953d-646b00011abd-8985384.jpg/" alt=\"A bus carrying Palestinian prisoners arrives in Beitunia, 20 January, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/384x256_cmsv2_757e8738-d5aa-56f7-953d-646b00011abd-8985384.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/640x427_cmsv2_757e8738-d5aa-56f7-953d-646b00011abd-8985384.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/750x500_cmsv2_757e8738-d5aa-56f7-953d-646b00011abd-8985384.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/828x552_cmsv2_757e8738-d5aa-56f7-953d-646b00011abd-8985384.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/1080x720_cmsv2_757e8738-d5aa-56f7-953d-646b00011abd-8985384.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/1200x800_cmsv2_757e8738-d5aa-56f7-953d-646b00011abd-8985384.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/53\/84\/1920x1280_cmsv2_757e8738-d5aa-56f7-953d-646b00011abd-8985384.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A bus carrying Palestinian prisoners arrives in Beitunia, 20 January, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Leo Correa\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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by Hamas in the 7 October attack that sparked a war with Israel were released and met by their parents in Israel, the military announced on Sunday, hours after the fragile ceasefire between the two sides at conflict took hold. \n\nQatar-based outlet Al Jazeera showed live video of the three women, Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher, walking between vehicles as their convoy moved through Gaza City, surrounded by a large crowd. \n\nThe cars were accompanied by armed men who wore green Hamas headbands and struggled to guard the vehicles from an unruly crowd that swelled into the thousands.\n\nNo further glimpses of the three were immediately expected as they will be taken for medical assessment. \u201cThey appear to be in good health,\u201d US President Joe Biden said in brief remarks as the released hostages arrived in Israel.\n\nMeanwhile, in Tel Aviv, thousands gathered to watch the news on large screens erupted in cheers. For months, many had gathered in the square to demand a ceasefire deal.\n\n'Mommy, I think I'm going to die'\n\nRomi Gonen was kidnapped from the Nova music festival in southern Israel on 7 October 2023. That morning, Gonen's mother, Merav, and her eldest daughter spent nearly five hours speaking to Gonen as militants marauded through the festival grounds. Gonen told her family that roads clogged with abandoned cars made escape impossible and that she would seek shelter in some bushes.\n\nThen she said words that continue to echo in her mother\u2019s head every day. \u201cMommy, I was shot, the car was shot, everybody was shot. ... I am wounded and bleeding. Mommy, I think I\u2019m going to die,\u201d she recounted Romi as saying in a press conference a few weeks after the abduction.\n\nAt a loss for what to do, Merav Gonen tried to convince her daughter that she wasn\u2019t going to die, to start breathing and treat her wounded friends. According to Merav, Gonen's last word during the call was a shriek of \u201cmommy\u201d as approaching gunfire, and the men\u2019s shouts drowned out everything.\n\nThen the phone shut off. Israeli authorities identified her phone's location in Gaza.\n\nOver the past 15 months, Merav has been one of the most outspoken voices advocating for the return of the hostages, appearing nearly daily on Israeli news programs and travelling abroad on missions.\n\n\u201cWe are doing everything we can so the world will not forget,\u201d Merav told AP on the six-month anniversary of Hamas' attack. \u201cEvery day we wake up and take a big breath, deep breath, and continue walking, continue doing the things that will bring her back.\u201d\n\nEmily Damari is a British-Israeli citizen kidnapped from her apartment on Kibbutz Kfar Aza, a communal farming village hit hard by Hamas' assault. She lived in a small apartment in a neighbourhood for young adults, the closest part of the kibbutz to Gaza. Militants broke through the border fence of the kibbutz and ransacked the neighbourhood.\n\nDamari's mother, Mandy, said she loves music, travelling, soccer, good food, karaoke and hats. Kibbutz Kfar Aza said that Damari was often the \u201cglue that held her close-knit friend group together,\u201d and she was always organizing gatherings of friends around the best barbecue corner in the entire kibbutz.\n\n\u201cI hold on to that sliver of hope that I still keep in my heart that she is surviving, in spite of her suffering,\u201d Mandy Damari said in front of Damari's burned apartment last January. \u201cI am desperate, angry, and terrified for her life.\u201d\n\nDoron Steinbrecher is am Israeli-Romanian veterinary nurse who loves animals, and a neighbour to Damari in Kibbutz Kfar Aza.\n\nAt 10:20 am local time (9:20 am CET) on 7 October, Steinbrecher called her mother. \u201cMom, I\u2019m scared. I\u2019m hiding under the bed and I hear them trying to enter my apartment,\u201d her brother, Dor, recalled. She was able to send a voice message to her friends, saying, \u201cThey\u2019ve got me, they\u2019ve got me, they\u2019ve got me\u201d in the moments of her abduction.\n\nThat message was key in helping her family understand that Doron had been kidnapped.\n\nSteinbrecher was featured in a video released by Hamas on 26 January 2024, along with two other female Israeli soldiers. Her brother said the video gave them hope that she was alive but sparked concern because she looked tired, weak, and gaunt.\n\nIn total, militants killed 64 people and 22 soldiers and kidnapped 19 people from Kibbutz Kfar Aza on 7 October. With the return of Steinbrecher and Damari, there are still three members of the kibbutz held in Gaza: American-Israeli Keith Siegel, 65, and twins Gali and Ziv Berman, 27.\n\nIsrael due to release 90 Palestinian prisoners \n\nIn exchange, Israel will release almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and Palestinians from Gaza who have been detained.\n\nFamilies and friends of some of the Palestinian prisoners set to be released from Israel in exchange for hostages in Gaza gathered in Ramallah as cars honked and people waved the Palestinian flag.\n\nAbout 90 Palestinian prisoners from the West Bank and Jerusalem will be released Sunday after Hamas freed the three Israeli hostages. The Palestinians include 69 women.\n\nFadia Barghouti was arrested from Ramallah in April and spent three months in prison without being given a reason, she said. Tonight, she hopes to see friends with whom she has been detained.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m happy, because of the ceasefire people can live peacefully,\u201d she said.\n\nShe said the war in Gaza is evidence that no one in the Middle East can live peacefully until Palestinians have their rights.\n\nThe youngest prisoner scheduled to be released is Mahmoud Aliowat, 15.\n\nOthers include Khalida Jarrar, 62, a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a leftist faction with an armed group that has carried out attacks on Israelis. New York-based Human Rights Watch said her repeated arrests are part of Israel\u2019s broader crackdown on non-violent political opposition.\n\nDalal Khaseeb, 53, the sister of former Hamas second-in-command Saleh Arouri, is also on the list Hamas provided. Arouri was killed in an Israeli strike in a southern Beirut suburb in January 2024.\n\nAlso listed for release is Abla Abdelrasoul, 68, the wife of detained PFLP leader Ahmad Saadat, who killed an Israeli cabinet minister in 2001 and has been serving a 30-year sentence.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The first three hostages taken by Hamas in the 7 October attack that sparked a war with Israel were released and met by their parents in Israel, the military announced on Sunday, hours after the fragile ceasefire between the two sides at conflict took hold. <\/p>\n<p>Qatar-based outlet Al Jazeera showed live video of the three women, Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher, walking between vehicles as their convoy moved through Gaza City, surrounded by a large crowd. <\/p>\n<p>The cars were accompanied by armed men who wore green Hamas headbands and struggled to guard the vehicles from an unruly crowd that swelled into the thousands.<\/p>\n<p>No further glimpses of the three were immediately expected as they will be taken for medical assessment. \u201cThey appear to be in good health,\u201d US President Joe Biden said in brief remarks as the released hostages arrived in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, thousands gathered to watch the news on large screens erupted in cheers. For months, many had gathered in the square to demand a ceasefire deal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//98//45//80//808x539_cmsv2_05bd822e-bb0f-5baa-8bc9-dc1ed58a5dc5-8984580.jpg/" alt=\"Relatives and friends of people killed and abducted by Hamas and taken into Gaza, react as they gather in Tel Aviv, Israel on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. 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(AP Photo\/Oded Balilty)<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Oded Balilty\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>'Mommy, I think I'm going to die'<\/h2><p>Romi Gonen was kidnapped from the Nova music festival in southern Israel on 7 October 2023. That morning, Gonen's mother, Merav, and her eldest daughter spent nearly five hours speaking to Gonen as militants marauded through the festival grounds. Gonen told her family that roads clogged with abandoned cars made escape impossible and that she would seek shelter in some bushes.<\/p>\n<p>Then she said words that continue to echo in her mother\u2019s head every day. \u201cMommy, I was shot, the car was shot, everybody was shot. ... I am wounded and bleeding. Mommy, I think I\u2019m going to die,\u201d she recounted Romi as saying in a press conference a few weeks after the abduction.<\/p>\n<p>At a loss for what to do, Merav Gonen tried to convince her daughter that she wasn\u2019t going to die, to start breathing and treat her wounded friends. According to Merav, Gonen's last word during the call was a shriek of \u201cmommy\u201d as approaching gunfire, and the men\u2019s shouts drowned out everything.<\/p>\n<p>Then the phone shut off. Israeli authorities identified her phone's location in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 15 months, Merav has been one of the most outspoken voices advocating for the return of the hostages, appearing nearly daily on Israeli news programs and travelling abroad on missions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are doing everything we can so the world will not forget,\u201d Merav told AP on the six-month anniversary of Hamas' attack. \u201cEvery day we wake up and take a big breath, deep breath, and continue walking, continue doing the things that will bring her back.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//98//45//80//808x539_cmsv2_fc5b9e0c-a441-5d54-b5ed-72787c4fc9e9-8984580.jpg/" alt=\"Hamas fighters escort a Red Cross vehicle to collect Israeli hostages released after a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas took effect, in Gaza City, Jan. 19, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/45\/80\/384x256_cmsv2_fc5b9e0c-a441-5d54-b5ed-72787c4fc9e9-8984580.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/45\/80\/640x427_cmsv2_fc5b9e0c-a441-5d54-b5ed-72787c4fc9e9-8984580.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/45\/80\/750x500_cmsv2_fc5b9e0c-a441-5d54-b5ed-72787c4fc9e9-8984580.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/45\/80\/828x552_cmsv2_fc5b9e0c-a441-5d54-b5ed-72787c4fc9e9-8984580.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/45\/80\/1080x720_cmsv2_fc5b9e0c-a441-5d54-b5ed-72787c4fc9e9-8984580.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/45\/80\/1200x800_cmsv2_fc5b9e0c-a441-5d54-b5ed-72787c4fc9e9-8984580.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/98\/45\/80\/1920x1281_cmsv2_fc5b9e0c-a441-5d54-b5ed-72787c4fc9e9-8984580.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Hamas fighters escort a Red Cross vehicle to collect Israeli hostages released after a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas took effect, in Gaza City, Jan. 19, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Abed Hajjar\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Emily Damari is a British-Israeli citizen kidnapped from her apartment on Kibbutz Kfar Aza, a communal farming village hit hard by Hamas' assault. She lived in a small apartment in a neighbourhood for young adults, the closest part of the kibbutz to Gaza. Militants broke through the border fence of the kibbutz and ransacked the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>Damari's mother, Mandy, said she loves music, travelling, soccer, good food, karaoke and hats. Kibbutz Kfar Aza said that Damari was often the \u201cglue that held her close-knit friend group together,\u201d and she was always organizing gatherings of friends around the best barbecue corner in the entire kibbutz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hold on to that sliver of hope that I still keep in my heart that she is surviving, in spite of her suffering,\u201d Mandy Damari said in front of Damari's burned apartment last January. \u201cI am desperate, angry, and terrified for her life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doron Steinbrecher is am Israeli-Romanian veterinary nurse who loves animals, and a neighbour to Damari in Kibbutz Kfar Aza.<\/p>\n<p>At 10:20 am local time (9:20 am CET) on 7 October, Steinbrecher called her mother. \u201cMom, I\u2019m scared. I\u2019m hiding under the bed and I hear them trying to enter my apartment,\u201d her brother, Dor, recalled. She was able to send a voice message to her friends, saying, \u201cThey\u2019ve got me, they\u2019ve got me, they\u2019ve got me\u201d in the moments of her abduction.<\/p>\n<p>That message was key in helping her family understand that Doron had been kidnapped.<\/p>\n<p>Steinbrecher was featured in a video released by Hamas on 26 January 2024, along with two other female Israeli soldiers. Her brother said the video gave them hope that she was alive but sparked concern because she looked tired, weak, and gaunt.<\/p>\n<p>In total, militants killed 64 people and 22 soldiers and kidnapped 19 people from Kibbutz Kfar Aza on 7 October. With the return of Steinbrecher and Damari, there are still three members of the kibbutz held in Gaza: American-Israeli Keith Siegel, 65, and twins Gali and Ziv Berman, 27.<\/p>\n<h2>Israel due to release 90 Palestinian prisoners<\/h2><p>In exchange, Israel will release almost 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and Palestinians from Gaza who have been detained.<\/p>\n<p>Families and friends of some of the Palestinian prisoners set to be released from Israel in exchange for hostages in Gaza gathered in Ramallah as cars honked and people waved the Palestinian flag.<\/p>\n<p>About 90 Palestinian prisoners from the West Bank and Jerusalem will be released Sunday after Hamas freed the three Israeli hostages. The Palestinians include 69 women.<\/p>\n<p>Fadia Barghouti was arrested from Ramallah in April and spent three months in prison without being given a reason, she said. Tonight, she hopes to see friends with whom she has been detained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy, because of the ceasefire people can live peacefully,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said the war in Gaza is evidence that no one in the Middle East can live peacefully until Palestinians have their rights.<\/p>\n<p>The youngest prisoner scheduled to be released is Mahmoud Aliowat, 15.<\/p>\n<p>Others include Khalida Jarrar, 62, a leading member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a leftist faction with an armed group that has carried out attacks on Israelis. New York-based Human Rights Watch said her repeated arrests are part of Israel\u2019s broader crackdown on non-violent political opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Dalal Khaseeb, 53, the sister of former Hamas second-in-command Saleh Arouri, is also on the list Hamas provided. 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CABINET RESIGNATIONS","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Three far-right ministers quit Israel's cabinet over ceasefire deal","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Three far-right ministers quit Israel's cabinet over ceasefire deal","titleListing2":"Three far-right ministers quit Israel's cabinet over ceasefire deal","leadin":"Israel\u2019s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and two other ministers from the religious Jewish Power party have resigned.","summary":"Israel\u2019s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and two other ministers from the religious Jewish Power party have resigned.","keySentence":"","url":"three-far-right-ministers-quit-israels-cabinet-over-ceasefire-deal","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/19\/three-far-right-ministers-quit-israels-cabinet-over-ceasefire-deal","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The party of Israel\u2019s hard-line National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says its Cabinet ministers submitted their resignations from the government on Sunday in opposition to the Gaza ceasefire deal.\n\nThe departure of the Jewish Power party from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government does not bring down the coalition or affect the ceasefire. But Ben-Gvir\u2019s departure destabilises the coalition.\n\nIt was the latest act of defiance by Ben-Gvir, the ultranationalist settler leader who transformed himself over the decades from an outlaw and provocateur into one of Israel\u2019s most influential politicians.\n\nThe ceasefire will pause the war and free dozens of hostages held by militants in Gaza. Ben-Gvir opposed the deal because it requires Israel to free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and to withdraw troops from Gaza\u2019s southern border with Egypt \u2014 and because it leaves open the possibility of Hamas staying in power in Gaza.\n\nAhead of the resignation, he said the ceasefire was \u201creckless\u201d and would \u201cdestroy all of Israel\u2019s achievements.\u201d\n\nIn his Cabinet post, Ben-Gvir oversaw the country\u2019s police force. He used his influence to encourage Netanyahu to press ahead with the war in Gaza and recently boasted that he had blocked past efforts to reach a ceasefire.\n\nHe also has paid multiple visits to Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site \u2014 the contested hilltop compound that houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque \u2014 including last month. In one such visit in July, he said he came to pray for the return of the hostages \u201cbut without a reckless deal, without surrendering.\u201d \n\nThe move, while legal, was seen as a provocation, violated a longstanding ban on Jewish prayer there, and threatened to disrupt months of sensitive negotiations. The site is revered by Jews as the Temple Mount.\n\nBen-Gvir has been convicted eight times for offences that include racism and supporting a terrorist organisation. As a teen, his views were so extreme that the army banned him from compulsory military service. \n\nBen-Gvir gained notoriety in his youth as a follower of the late racist rabbi Meir Kahane. He first became a national figure when he broke a hood ornament off then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin\u2019s car in 1995.\n\n\u201cWe got to his car, and we\u2019ll get to him too,\u201d he said, just weeks before Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist opposed to his peace efforts with the Palestinians. \n\nTwo years later, Ben-Gvir took responsibility for orchestrating a campaign of protests, including death threats, that forced Irish singer Sinead O\u2019Connor to cancel a concert for peace in Jerusalem.\n\nThe political rise of Ben-Gvir was the culmination of years of efforts by the media-savvy lawmaker to gain legitimacy. But it also reflected a rightward shift in the Israeli electorate that brought his religious, ultra-nationalist ideology into the mainstream and diminished hopes for Palestinian independence.\n\nBen-Gvir is trained as a lawyer and gained recognition as a successful defence lawyer for extremist Jews accused of violence against Palestinians. \n\nWith a quick wit and cheerful demeanour, the outspoken Ben-Gvir also became a popular fixture in the media, paving his way to enter politics. He was first elected to parliament in 2021.\n\nBen-Gvir has called for deporting his political opponents, and in the past has encouraged police to open fire on Palestinian stone-throwers in a tense Jerusalem neighbourhood, while brandishing a pistol. As national security minister, he has encouraged police to take a tough line against anti-government protesters.\n\nBen-Gvir secured his Cabinet post after 2022 elections that put Netanyahu and his far-right partners, including Ben-Gvir's Jewish Power party, into power.\n\n\u201cOver the last year I\u2019ve been on a mission to save Israel,\u201d Ben-Gvir told reporters before that election. \u201cMillions of citizens are waiting for a real right-wing government. The time has come to give them one.\u201d\n\nBen-Gvir has been a magnet of controversy throughout his tenure \u2014 encouraging the mass distribution of handguns to Jewish citizens, backing Netanyahu's contentious attempt to overhaul the country's legal system and frequently lashing out at U.S. leaders for perceived slights against Israel. \n\nIn May, Ben-Gvir criticised Joe Biden when the U.S. president threatened to withhold certain military aid if Israel invaded Rafah. Ben-Gvir, using a heart emoji in a post on the social media platform X, wrote that Hamas loves Biden.\n\nBen-Gvir's departure does not endanger the ceasefire, and Netanyahu still has a narrow parliamentary majority needed to keep power. \n\nBut if other hard-liners follow suit, Netanyahu's government could collapse, which would trigger early elections.\n\n\u201cIt's probable that he has less survival time,\u201d said Shmuel Rosner, a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute and analyst for Israeli public television station Kan News. \n\nOpposition leader Yair Lapid has said he will provide a political safety net to Netanyahu to ensure the government will not fall over the deal. \n\nBut such a partnership is unlikely to last beyond the ceasefire because the two men do not get along and would have a difficult time working together, said Mairav Zonszein, a senior analyst on Israel with the International Crisis Group.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The party of Israel\u2019s hard-line National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says its Cabinet ministers submitted their resignations from the government on Sunday in opposition to the Gaza ceasefire deal.<\/p>\n<p>The departure of the Jewish Power party from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government does not bring down the coalition or affect the ceasefire. But Ben-Gvir\u2019s departure destabilises the coalition.<\/p>\n<p>It was the latest act of defiance by Ben-Gvir, the ultranationalist settler leader who transformed himself over the decades from an outlaw and provocateur into one of Israel\u2019s most influential politicians.<\/p>\n<p>The ceasefire will pause the war and free dozens of hostages held by militants in Gaza. Ben-Gvir opposed the deal because it requires Israel to free hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and to withdraw troops from Gaza\u2019s southern border with Egypt \u2014 and because it leaves open the possibility of Hamas staying in power in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the resignation, he said the ceasefire was \u201creckless\u201d and would \u201cdestroy all of Israel\u2019s achievements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his Cabinet post, Ben-Gvir oversaw the country\u2019s police force. He used his influence to encourage Netanyahu to press ahead with the war in Gaza and recently boasted that he had blocked past efforts to reach a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>He also has paid multiple visits to Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site \u2014 the contested hilltop compound that houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque \u2014 including last month. In one such visit in July, he said he came to pray for the return of the hostages \u201cbut without a reckless deal, without surrendering.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The move, while legal, was seen as a provocation, violated a longstanding ban on Jewish prayer there, and threatened to disrupt months of sensitive negotiations. The site is revered by Jews as the Temple Mount.<\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gvir has been convicted eight times for offences that include racism and supporting a terrorist organisation. As a teen, his views were so extreme that the army banned him from compulsory military service. <\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gvir gained notoriety in his youth as a follower of the late racist rabbi Meir Kahane. He first became a national figure when he broke a hood ornament off then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin\u2019s car in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got to his car, and we\u2019ll get to him too,\u201d he said, just weeks before Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist opposed to his peace efforts with the Palestinians. <\/p>\n<p>Two years later, Ben-Gvir took responsibility for orchestrating a campaign of protests, including death threats, that forced Irish singer Sinead O\u2019Connor to cancel a concert for peace in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>The political rise of Ben-Gvir was the culmination of years of efforts by the media-savvy lawmaker to gain legitimacy. But it also reflected a rightward shift in the Israeli electorate that brought his religious, ultra-nationalist ideology into the mainstream and diminished hopes for Palestinian independence.<\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gvir is trained as a lawyer and gained recognition as a successful defence lawyer for extremist Jews accused of violence against Palestinians. <\/p>\n<p>With a quick wit and cheerful demeanour, the outspoken Ben-Gvir also became a popular fixture in the media, paving his way to enter politics. He was first elected to parliament in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gvir has called for deporting his political opponents, and in the past has encouraged police to open fire on Palestinian stone-throwers in a tense Jerusalem neighbourhood, while brandishing a pistol. As national security minister, he has encouraged police to take a tough line against anti-government protesters.<\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gvir secured his Cabinet post after 2022 elections that put Netanyahu and his far-right partners, including Ben-Gvir's Jewish Power party, into power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last year I\u2019ve been on a mission to save Israel,\u201d Ben-Gvir told reporters before that election. \u201cMillions of citizens are waiting for a real right-wing government. The time has come to give them one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gvir has been a magnet of controversy throughout his tenure \u2014 encouraging the mass distribution of handguns to Jewish citizens, backing Netanyahu's contentious attempt to overhaul the country's legal system and frequently lashing out at U.S. leaders for perceived slights against Israel. <\/p>\n<p>In May, Ben-Gvir criticised Joe Biden when the U.S. president threatened to withhold certain military aid if Israel invaded Rafah. 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Palestinians have carried out scores of shooting, stabbing and car-ramming attacks against Israelis across Israel and the occupied West Bank, especially during the past 15 months of the Israel-Hamas war.\n\nsrael has launched near-nightly military raids across the territory that frequently trigger gunbattles with militants. \n\nThere has also been a sharp rise in attacks on Palestinians by Israeli settlers, leading the United States to impose sanctions. \n\nThe attack comes after Houthi rebels launched two missiles towards Israel on Saturday.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>One person was seriously wounded in a stabbing attack in central Tel Aviv on Saturday afternoon, Israel police said.<\/p>\n<p>A passerby shot the attacker and he was in critical condition, according to Magen David Adom, Israel\u2019s emergency rescue services.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not identify the attacker but believe the stabbing was a terrorist act. Palestinians have carried out scores of shooting, stabbing and car-ramming attacks against Israelis across Israel and the occupied West Bank, especially during the past 15 months of the Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n<p>srael has launched near-nightly military raids across the territory that frequently trigger gunbattles with militants. <\/p>\n<p>There has also been a sharp rise in attacks on Palestinians by Israeli settlers, leading the United States to impose sanctions. <\/p>\n<p>The attack comes after Houthi rebels launched two missiles towards Israel on Saturday.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1737216363,"updatedAt":1737218530,"publishedAt":1737218184,"firstPublishedAt":1737218184,"lastPublishedAt":1737218530,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Oded Balilty\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also faced opposition from hard-line members of his coalition government, who threatened to resign over the proposal. \n\nThe deal will now go to the full cabinet for the final signoff with the aim that the ceasefire will come into effect on Sunday, when the first hostages will be released. \n\nIsrael's high court is scheduled to hear petitions against different aspects of the agreement, but is expected to not intervene. \n\nUnder the agreement, Hamas is expected to release 33 hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. By the end of the first phase, all living women, children and elderly hostages held by the militant group should be freed. \n\nOn the first official day of the ceasefire, Hamas is to free three hostages, then another four on the seventh day. After that, it will make weekly releases.\n\nThe remainder, including male soldiers, are to be released in a second phase that will be negotiated during the first. Hamas has said it will not release the remaining captives without a lasting ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said that French-Israeli nationals Ofer Kalderon and Ohad Yahalomi are on the list of 33 hostages to be released in the first phase of the draft deal.\n\n\u201cWe are working tirelessly to ensure they are reunited with their families,\u201d the leader said in a message on X.\n\nOn Wednesday US President Joe Biden and key mediator Qatar announced the truce, which took months of painstaking negotiations. If implemented, the agreement would be at least a temporary pause in fighting that has killed scores of people and devastated the Gaza Strip. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israel\u2019s security cabinet has recommended approving a ceasefire deal that would pause fighting in Gaza and exchange dozens of hostages held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners in Israel. <\/p>\n<p>The approval comes after a delay which sparked fears that last-minute disagreements between Hamas and Israel could halt an agreement. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also faced opposition from hard-line members of his coalition government, who threatened to resign over the proposal. <\/p>\n<p>The deal will now go to the full cabinet for the final signoff with the aim that the ceasefire will come into effect on Sunday, when the first hostages will be released. <\/p>\n<p>Israel's high court is scheduled to hear petitions against different aspects of the agreement, but is expected to not intervene. <\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, Hamas is expected to release 33 hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned in Israel. By the end of the first phase, all living women, children and elderly hostages held by the militant group should be freed. <\/p>\n<p>On the first official day of the ceasefire, Hamas is to free three hostages, then another four on the seventh day. After that, it will make weekly releases.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder, including male soldiers, are to be released in a second phase that will be negotiated during the first. Hamas has said it will not release the remaining captives without a lasting ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron said that French-Israeli nationals Ofer Kalderon and Ohad Yahalomi are on the list of 33 hostages to be released in the first phase of the draft deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working tirelessly to ensure they are reunited with their families,\u201d the leader said in a message on X.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday US President Joe Biden and key mediator Qatar announced the truce, which took months of painstaking negotiations. If implemented, the agreement would be at least a temporary pause in fighting that has killed scores of people and devastated the Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1737120088,"updatedAt":1737792875,"publishedAt":1737121322,"firstPublishedAt":1737121322,"lastPublishedAt":1737792875,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","altText":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, convened his security Cabinet to vote on a ceasefire deal after confirming an agreement had been reached.","callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"caption":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, convened his security Cabinet to vote on a ceasefire deal after confirming an agreement had been 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I believe that these efforts should not be interrupted or stopped,\" said Germany\u2019s ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert.\n\n\"We know that the only way to bring all the hostages home is through negotiations. Therefore, I call on those involved in the negotiations now to do the extra leg that is required to reach a deal,\" said Simon Walters, the UK\u2019s ambassador.\n\nThe weekly rallies in Tel Aviv have taken place for months on what has come to be known as 'Hostages Square'.\n\nThey have also taken on a political dimension with many protesters demanding Netanyahu call fresh elections and step down.\n\nThey accuse him of prioritising his political survival over the lives of the around 100 hostages believed to be in Gaza.\n\n\"Six soldiers were killed in Gaza this week alone. Nearly every day more names of fallen victims are released. How much more blood will be spilled for Netanyahu's personal interests?\" said one of the protesters, Efrat Machikawa.\n\n\"It's time, the people of Israel want this government to go. We want the war to end, and we need the hostages home,\" said Idit Peterson.\n\nDespite Netanyahu's announcement that Mossad's foreign intelligence chief will attend the talks, it is not immediately clear when David Barnea will travel to Qatar for the latest round of indirect talks between Israel and Hamas.\n\nBut there is increasing pressure from the US for both sides to reach a deal before Joe Biden leaves the White House and hands over to Donald Trump on 20 January.\n\nBarnea's presence means high-level Israeli officials who would need to sign off on any agreement are now involved.\n\nAlso being sent to Qatar are the head of Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency and military and political advisers.\n\nNetanyahu's office said the decision followed a meeting with his defence minister, security chiefs and negotiators \"on behalf of the outgoing and incoming US administrations.\"\n\nJust one brief ceasefire has been achieved in 15 months of war and that was in the earliest weeks of fighting.\n\nTalks mediated by the United States, Egypt and Qatar have repeatedly stalled since then.\n\nIsrael's newspaper, quoting Hamas sources, said the details of the ceasefire deal are \"almost complete\" with \"90% of the details\" agreed upon but sticking points remain.\n\nUnder discussion is a phased ceasefire, with Netanyahu signalling he is committed only to the first phase, a partial hostage release in exchange for a weekslong halt in fighting.\n\nHamas has insisted on a full Israeli troop withdrawal from the largely devastated territory, but Netanyahu has insisted on destroying Hamas' ability to fight in Gaza.\n\nOn Thursday, Gaza's Health Ministry said\u00a0more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war, the majority women and children, though it doesn't say how many were fighters or civilians.\n\nThe war in Gaza started in October 2023 when Hamas and other groups launched an incursion into southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages back to Gaza.\n\nA truce in November 2023 freed more than 100 hostages, while others have been rescued or their remains have been recovered over the past year.\n\nThe Israeli military says it has killed over 17,000 militants during the war, without providing evidence.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Several ambassadors to Israel have joined the weekly rally in Tel Aviv of family members and supporters demanding the government reach a deal to return the remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The protest comes on the same day that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to\u00a0talks in Doha, in a sign of progress towards ending 15 months of war.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are in a phase of intensive negotiations, which is good. I believe that these efforts should not be interrupted or stopped,\" said Germany\u2019s ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666054371785451\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//96//51//56//808x539_cmsv2_8228a998-383e-5e20-8a93-dba7a587ba48-8965156.jpg/" alt=\"Demonstrators in Tel Aviv wave signs during a protest calling for the immediate release of the hostages held in Gaza, 11 January, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/384x256_cmsv2_8228a998-383e-5e20-8a93-dba7a587ba48-8965156.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/640x427_cmsv2_8228a998-383e-5e20-8a93-dba7a587ba48-8965156.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/750x500_cmsv2_8228a998-383e-5e20-8a93-dba7a587ba48-8965156.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/828x552_cmsv2_8228a998-383e-5e20-8a93-dba7a587ba48-8965156.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/1080x720_cmsv2_8228a998-383e-5e20-8a93-dba7a587ba48-8965156.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/1200x800_cmsv2_8228a998-383e-5e20-8a93-dba7a587ba48-8965156.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/1920x1280_cmsv2_8228a998-383e-5e20-8a93-dba7a587ba48-8965156.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Demonstrators in Tel Aviv wave signs during a protest calling for the immediate release of the hostages held in Gaza, 11 January, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ariel Schalit\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"We know that the only way to bring all the hostages home is through negotiations. Therefore, I call on those involved in the negotiations now to do the extra leg that is required to reach a deal,\" said Simon Walters, the UK\u2019s ambassador.<\/p>\n<p>The weekly rallies in Tel Aviv have taken place for months on what has come to be known as 'Hostages Square'.<\/p>\n<p>They have also taken on a political dimension with many protesters demanding Netanyahu call fresh elections and step down.<\/p>\n<p>They accuse him of prioritising his political survival over the lives of the around 100 hostages believed to be in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\"Six soldiers were killed in Gaza this week alone. Nearly every day more names of fallen victims are released. How much more blood will be spilled for Netanyahu's personal interests?\" said one of the protesters, Efrat Machikawa.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1878134611215061116\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"It's time, the people of Israel want this government to go. We want the war to end, and we need the hostages home,\" said Idit Peterson.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Netanyahu's announcement that Mossad's foreign intelligence chief will attend the talks, it is not immediately clear when David Barnea will travel to Qatar for the latest round of indirect talks between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>But there is increasing pressure from the US for both sides to reach a deal before Joe Biden leaves the White House and hands over to Donald Trump on 20 January.<\/p>\n<p>Barnea's presence means high-level Israeli officials who would need to sign off on any agreement are now involved.<\/p>\n<p>Also being sent to Qatar are the head of Israel's Shin Bet internal security agency and military and political advisers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//96//51//56//808x539_cmsv2_0db1fc9f-6a72-5d95-9ef4-b3618714f104-8965156.jpg/" alt=\"President Joe Biden talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, 25 July, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/384x256_cmsv2_0db1fc9f-6a72-5d95-9ef4-b3618714f104-8965156.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/640x427_cmsv2_0db1fc9f-6a72-5d95-9ef4-b3618714f104-8965156.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/750x500_cmsv2_0db1fc9f-6a72-5d95-9ef4-b3618714f104-8965156.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/828x552_cmsv2_0db1fc9f-6a72-5d95-9ef4-b3618714f104-8965156.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/1080x720_cmsv2_0db1fc9f-6a72-5d95-9ef4-b3618714f104-8965156.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/1200x800_cmsv2_0db1fc9f-6a72-5d95-9ef4-b3618714f104-8965156.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/1920x1280_cmsv2_0db1fc9f-6a72-5d95-9ef4-b3618714f104-8965156.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">President Joe Biden talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, 25 July, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Susan Walsh\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Netanyahu's office said the decision followed a meeting with his defence minister, security chiefs and negotiators \"on behalf of the outgoing and incoming US administrations.\"<\/p>\n<p>Just one brief ceasefire has been achieved in 15 months of war and that was in the earliest weeks of fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Talks mediated by the United States, Egypt and Qatar have repeatedly stalled since then.<\/p>\n<p>Israel's newspaper, quoting Hamas sources, said the details of the ceasefire deal are \"almost complete\" with \"90% of the details\" agreed upon but sticking points remain.<\/p>\n<p>Under discussion is a phased ceasefire, with Netanyahu signalling he is committed only to the first phase, a partial hostage release in exchange for a weekslong halt in fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas has insisted on a full Israeli troop withdrawal from the largely devastated territory, but Netanyahu has insisted on destroying Hamas' ability to fight in Gaza.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//96//51//56//808x539_cmsv2_ac07aa07-4206-59c4-8110-87646ddd8bc4-8965156.jpg/" alt=\"Palestinians struggle to reach for food at a distribution centre in Khan Younis, 9 January, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/384x256_cmsv2_ac07aa07-4206-59c4-8110-87646ddd8bc4-8965156.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/640x427_cmsv2_ac07aa07-4206-59c4-8110-87646ddd8bc4-8965156.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/750x500_cmsv2_ac07aa07-4206-59c4-8110-87646ddd8bc4-8965156.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/828x552_cmsv2_ac07aa07-4206-59c4-8110-87646ddd8bc4-8965156.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/1080x720_cmsv2_ac07aa07-4206-59c4-8110-87646ddd8bc4-8965156.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/1200x800_cmsv2_ac07aa07-4206-59c4-8110-87646ddd8bc4-8965156.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/1920x1280_cmsv2_ac07aa07-4206-59c4-8110-87646ddd8bc4-8965156.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Palestinians struggle to reach for food at a distribution centre in Khan Younis, 9 January, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Abdel Kareem Hana\/Copyright 2025, The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, Gaza's Health Ministry said\u00a0more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war, the majority women and children, though it doesn't say how many were fighters or civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The war in Gaza started in October 2023 when Hamas and other groups launched an incursion into southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages back to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>A truce in November 2023 freed more than 100 hostages, while others have been rescued or their remains have been recovered over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military says it has killed over 17,000 militants during the war, without providing evidence.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1736646579,"updatedAt":1736675625,"publishedAt":1736656712,"firstPublishedAt":1736656712,"lastPublishedAt":1736656712,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/51\/56\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_7c57e8ac-1fdd-59b1-b567-32fab6d05a86-8965156.jpg","altText":"Demonstrators in Tel Aviv wave Israeli flags and signs during a protest calling for the immediate release of the hostages held in Gaza, 11 January, 2025","caption":"Demonstrators in Tel Aviv wave Israeli flags and signs during a protest calling for the immediate release of the hostages held in Gaza, 11 January, 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Ariel Schalit\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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TOP NEGOTIATORS TO QATAR","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Israel's Netanyahu sends Mossad chief to Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Israel's Netanyahu sends Mossad chief to Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar","titleListing2":"Israel's Netanyahu sends Mossad chief to Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar","leadin":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar.","summary":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar.","keySentence":"","url":"israels-netanyahu-sends-mossad-chief-to-gaza-ceasefire-talks-in-qatar","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/11\/israels-netanyahu-sends-mossad-chief-to-gaza-ceasefire-talks-in-qatar","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Netanyahu's office announced the decision on Saturday, which is being regarded as a sign of progress in talks on the war in Gaza. It was not immediately clear when David Barnea would travel to Qatar\u2019s capital, Doha, site of the latest round of indirect talks between Israel and the Hamas militant group. His presence means high-level Israeli officials who would need to sign off on any agreement are now involved.\n\nJust one brief ceasefire has been achieved in 15 months of war, and that occurred in the earliest weeks of fighting. The talks mediated by the United States, Egypt and Qatar have repeatedly stalled since then.\n\nNetanyahu has insisted on destroying Hamas\u2019 ability to fight in Gaza. Hamas has insisted on a full Israeli troop withdrawal from the largely devastated territory. On Thursday, Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry said over 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war.\n\nAlso being sent to Qatar are the head of Israel\u2019s Shin Bet internal security agency and military and political advisers. Netanyahu\u2019s office said the decision followed a meeting with his defence minister, security chiefs and negotiators \u201con behalf of the outgoing and incoming U.S. administrations.\u201d\n\nThe office also released a photo showing Netanyahu with President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s incoming special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, who was in Qatar this week.\n\nFamilies of the roughly 100 hostages still held in Gaza after being seized in the Oct. 7, 2023 militant attack that sparked the war are pressing Netanyahu to reach a deal to bring their loved ones home. \n\nThe recovery of two hostages\u2019 bodies in the past week renewed fears that time is running out. Hamas has said that after months of heavy fighting, it isn\u2019t sure who is alive or dead.\n\nIsrael and Hamas are under pressure from outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and Trump to reach a deal before the Jan. 20 inauguration.\n\nU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this week a deal is \u201cvery close\u201d and he hoped to complete it before handing over diplomacy to the incoming Trump administration. But U.S. officials have expressed similar optimism on several occasions over the past year.\n\nIssues in the talks have included which hostages would be released in the first part of a phased ceasefire deal, which Palestinian prisoners would be released and the extent of any Israeli troop withdrawal from population centres in Gaza.\n\nHamas and other groups killed some 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages into Gaza in the attack that started the war. A truce in November 2023 freed more than 100 hostages, while others have been rescued or their remains have been recovered over the past year.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Netanyahu's office announced the decision on Saturday, which is being regarded as a sign of progress in talks on the war in Gaza. It was not immediately clear when David Barnea would travel to Qatar\u2019s capital, Doha, site of the latest round of indirect talks between Israel and the Hamas militant group. His presence means high-level Israeli officials who would need to sign off on any agreement are now involved.<\/p>\n<p>Just one brief ceasefire has been achieved in 15 months of war, and that occurred in the earliest weeks of fighting. The talks mediated by the United States, Egypt and Qatar have repeatedly stalled since then.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu has insisted on destroying Hamas\u2019 ability to fight in Gaza. Hamas has insisted on a full Israeli troop withdrawal from the largely devastated territory. On Thursday, Gaza\u2019s Health Ministry said over 46,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war.<\/p>\n<p>Also being sent to Qatar are the head of Israel\u2019s Shin Bet internal security agency and military and political advisers. Netanyahu\u2019s office said the decision followed a meeting with his defence minister, security chiefs and negotiators \u201con behalf of the outgoing and incoming U.S. administrations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The office also released a photo showing Netanyahu with President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s incoming special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, who was in Qatar this week.<\/p>\n<p>Families of the roughly 100 hostages still held in Gaza after being seized in the Oct. 7, 2023 militant attack that sparked the war are pressing Netanyahu to reach a deal to bring their loved ones home. <\/p>\n<p>The recovery of two hostages\u2019 bodies in the past week renewed fears that time is running out. Hamas has said that after months of heavy fighting, it isn\u2019t sure who is alive or dead.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and Hamas are under pressure from outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and Trump to reach a deal before the Jan. 20 inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this week a deal is \u201cvery close\u201d and he hoped to complete it before handing over diplomacy to the incoming Trump administration. But U.S. officials have expressed similar optimism on several occasions over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Issues in the talks have included which hostages would be released in the first part of a phased ceasefire deal, which Palestinian prisoners would be released and the extent of any Israeli troop withdrawal from population centres in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas and other groups killed some 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages into Gaza in the attack that started the war. A truce in November 2023 freed more than 100 hostages, while others have been rescued or their remains have been recovered over the past year.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1736616064,"updatedAt":1736669619,"publishedAt":1736616724,"firstPublishedAt":1736616724,"lastPublishedAt":1736627076,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/96\/49\/46\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_daebc2e1-30c7-5710-873a-4a1a283a5a4d-8964946.jpg","altText":"FILE - Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, December 23rd 2024","caption":"FILE - Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, December 23rd 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Debbie Hill\/UPI","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":1074,"urlSafeValue":"bellamy","title":"Daniel 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OF ISRAELI HOSTAGE FOUND IN GAZA","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Israel recovers body of hostage taken to Gaza on 7 October","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Israel recovers body of hostage taken to Gaza on 7 October","titleListing2":"Israel recovers body of hostage captured to Gaza on 7 October","leadin":"Roughly 100 Israeli hostages were taken into the Gaza Strip when Hamas militants launched an attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.","summary":"Roughly 100 Israeli hostages were taken into the Gaza Strip when Hamas militants launched an attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.","keySentence":"","url":"israel-recovers-body-of-hostage-captured-to-gaza-on-7-october","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/01\/09\/israel-recovers-body-of-hostage-captured-to-gaza-on-7-october","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israeli soldiers have recovered the body of 53-year-old Yosef AlZayadni in an underground tunnel in southern Gaza and were determining if another set of remains found belonged to his son, the Israeli military said on Wednesday.\n\nAlZayadni and his son, Hamzah AlZayadni, were captured on 7 October by Hamas militants in a kibbutz in southern Israel as part of an attack that killed 1,200 people. He was a dairy farmer with 19 children, said the Hostages Families Forum, a group representing the relatives of those captured. \n\nTwo of his other children, Bilal and Aisha, were released in a weeklong ceasefire deal in November 2023, along with around 100 other hostages. \n\nOf the roughly 100 hostages who remain in Gaza, one-third are said to be dead \u2014 some killed during Hamas\u2019 initial attack, and others have been killed or have died in captivity. Israel has rescued eight hostages and has recovered the bodies of dozens.\n\nThe hostages range in age from 1 to 86 and are believed to be scattered throughout the Gaza Strip. They have been held in apartments or in Hamas\u2019 web of underground tunnels, which are cramped, damp and stifling, according to testimony from freed hostages.\n\nThe military said it found evidence in the tunnel that raised \u201cserious concerns\u201d for the life of Hamzah AlZayadni, 23, suggesting he may have died in captivity. \n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed sorrow at the news of AlZayadni's death, adding in a statement he had \u201choped and worked to bring back the four members of the family from Hamas captivity.\u201d\n\nThe AlZayadni family are members of the Bedouin community, a Palestinian minority who have Israeli citizenship. Eight members of Israel\u2019s Bedouin minority were abducted in the October 2023 attacks.\n\n\u201cWe expected to bring them back alive,\u201d said Talal Alkernawi, mayor of the city of Rahat where the men were from. \u201cInstead of returning them alive to their families, to raise their children, we receive them dead.\u201d\n\nThe return of the remaining hostages is a key element of a potential ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. The families of the hostages have put immense pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to negotiate a pause in hostilities so that their loved ones could return home. \n\nCeasefire negotiations are reportedly underway, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying Wednesday that a ceasefire and hostage agreement are \"very close\". The politician said he hopes the agreement will be reached before US President-elect Donald Trump takes over later this month.\n\nThe Hostages Families Forum said the ceasefire deal being negotiated \u201ccomes far too late for Yosef \u2014 who was taken alive and should have returned the same way.\u201d\n\nYosef AlZayadni's name appeared on a list of 34 hostages who would have been slated for release should a hostage agreement deal have been held, a Hamas official shared earlier this week. Israel has argued that this list had been submitted to mediators last July. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israeli soldiers have recovered the body of 53-year-old Yosef AlZayadni in an underground tunnel in southern Gaza and were determining if another set of remains found belonged to his son, the Israeli military said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>AlZayadni and his son, Hamzah AlZayadni, were captured on 7 October by Hamas militants in a kibbutz in southern Israel as part of an attack that killed 1,200 people. He was a dairy farmer with 19 children, said the Hostages Families Forum, a group representing the relatives of those captured. <\/p>\n<p>Two of his other children, Bilal and Aisha, were released in a weeklong ceasefire deal in November 2023, along with around 100 other hostages. <\/p>\n<p>Of the roughly 100 hostages who remain in Gaza, one-third are said to be dead \u2014 some killed during Hamas\u2019 initial attack, and others have been killed or have died in captivity. Israel has rescued eight hostages and has recovered the bodies of dozens.<\/p>\n<p>The hostages range in age from 1 to 86 and are believed to be scattered throughout the Gaza Strip. They have been held in apartments or in Hamas\u2019 web of underground tunnels, which are cramped, damp and stifling, according to testimony from freed hostages.<\/p>\n<p>The military said it found evidence in the tunnel that raised \u201cserious concerns\u201d for the life of Hamzah AlZayadni, 23, suggesting he may have died in captivity. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed sorrow at the news of AlZayadni's death, adding in a statement he had \u201choped and worked to bring back the four members of the family from Hamas captivity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AlZayadni family are members of the Bedouin community, a Palestinian minority who have Israeli citizenship. Eight members of Israel\u2019s Bedouin minority were abducted in the October 2023 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expected to bring them back alive,\u201d said Talal Alkernawi, mayor of the city of Rahat where the men were from. \u201cInstead of returning them alive to their families, to raise their children, we receive them dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8876052,8956960\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//27//dozens-of-israelis-call-for-return-of-gaza-hostages/">Dozens of Israelis call for return of Gaza hostages<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//01//08//at-least-17-reported-killed-after-deadly-israeli-airstrikes-hit-southern-gaza/">At least 17 reported killed after deadly Israeli airstrikes hit southern Gaza<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The return of the remaining hostages is a key element of a potential ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. The families of the hostages have put immense pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to negotiate a pause in hostilities so that their loved ones could return home. <\/p>\n<p>Ceasefire negotiations are reportedly underway, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying Wednesday that a ceasefire and hostage agreement are \"very close\". The politician said he hopes the agreement will be reached before US President-elect Donald Trump takes over later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Hostages Families Forum said the ceasefire deal being negotiated \u201ccomes far too late for Yosef \u2014 who was taken alive and should have returned the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yosef AlZayadni's name appeared on a list of 34 hostages who would have been slated for release should a hostage agreement deal have been held, a Hamas official shared earlier this week. Israel has argued that this list had been submitted to mediators last July. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1736403411,"updatedAt":1736413367,"publishedAt":1736405171,"firstPublishedAt":1736405171,"lastPublishedAt":1736413366,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/95\/88\/40\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_04adb76c-9f57-5c67-b06b-f2b0afeff412-8958840.jpg","altText":"Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza hold photos of their loved ones during a protest calling for their return, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday,.","caption":"Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza hold photos of their loved ones during a protest calling for their return, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday,.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP 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Palestinian Authority (PA) has suspended Al Jazeera from operating in the occupied West Bank, months after Israel closed its office in Ramallah on national security grounds. \n\nThe decision to freeze the channel\u2019s work on Wednesday was taken because of \u201cinciting material\u201d, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. \n\nThe PA, which controls Palestinian territory in the West Bank, also blamed the broadcaster for \u201creports that were deceiving and stirring strife\u201d. \n\nAl Jazeera had already been banned by the PA from reporting in Jenin, a governorate in the northern West Bank where Palestinian security forces have recently fought with Palestinian armed groups linked to Hamas.\n\nResponding to the wider West Bank suspension, Al Jazeera accused the PA of \u201can attempt to hide the truth about events in the occupied territories, especially what is happening in Jenin and its camps.\u201d \n\nIn a statement published on Thursday, Al Jazeera said it was \u201cshocked by this decision,\u201d which it urged the PA to reverse. \n\nAl Jazeera added that the PA was \u201cfully responsible for the safety and security\u201d of its staff in the West Bank.\n\nIt remains unclear how long the ban will last. \n\nThe latest blow for Al Jazeera comes just months after Israeli troops raided its offices in the West Bank, seizing equipment and ordering its bureau to close. \n\nThe September raid in Ramallah, a Palestinian city in the West Bank, followed Israel's decision in May to ban Al Jazeera from working in the country. \n\nThe Israeli Communication Minister Shlomo Karhi has described the network as \u201cthe mouthpiece of Hamas and Hezbollah\u201d, a charge vehemently denied by the channel. \n\nAl Jazeera's relationship with the Israeli authorities became more strained after the death of its journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, in Jenin in May 2022. Israel\u2019s army admitted that there was a \u201chigh possibility\u201d that she had been killed by one of its troops. \n\nThe network continues to report on the situation in Gaza, where more than 45,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since it declared war on Hamas after the deadly 7 October attacks. \n\nOver the last 15 months, tensions have risen in the West Bank between Israeli settlers and Palestinians. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Palestinian Authority (PA) has suspended Al Jazeera from operating in the occupied West Bank, months after Israel closed its office in Ramallah on national security grounds. <\/p>\n<p>The decision to freeze the channel\u2019s work on Wednesday was taken because of \u201cinciting material\u201d, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. <\/p>\n<p>The PA, which controls Palestinian territory in the West Bank, also blamed the broadcaster for \u201creports that were deceiving and stirring strife\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera had already been banned by the PA from reporting in Jenin, a governorate in the northern West Bank where Palestinian security forces have recently fought with Palestinian armed groups linked to Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the wider West Bank suspension, Al Jazeera accused the PA of \u201can attempt to hide the truth about events in the occupied territories, especially what is happening in Jenin and its camps.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In a statement published on Thursday, Al Jazeera said it was \u201cshocked by this decision,\u201d which it urged the PA to reverse. <\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera added that the PA was \u201cfully responsible for the safety and security\u201d of its staff in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear how long the ban will last. <\/p>\n<p>The latest blow for Al Jazeera comes just months after Israeli troops raided its offices in the West Bank, seizing equipment and ordering its bureau to close. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8915424,8831534\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//04//palestinian-officials-accuse-israeli-settlers-of-overnight-arson-attack-in-the-occupied-we/">Palestinian officials accuse Israeli settlers of overnight arson attack in the occupied West Bank<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//17//palestinian-security-forces-crack-down-on-militants-in-the-west-bank/">Palestinian security forces crack down on militants in the West Bank<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The September raid in Ramallah, a Palestinian city in the West Bank, followed Israel's decision in May to ban Al Jazeera from working in the country. <\/p>\n<p>The Israeli Communication Minister Shlomo Karhi has described the network as \u201cthe mouthpiece of Hamas and Hezbollah\u201d, a charge vehemently denied by the channel. <\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera's relationship with the Israeli authorities became more strained after the death of its journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, in Jenin in May 2022. Israel\u2019s army admitted that there was a \u201chigh possibility\u201d that she had been killed by one of its troops. <\/p>\n<p>The network continues to report on the situation in Gaza, where more than 45,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since it declared war on Hamas after the deadly 7 October attacks. <\/p>\n<p>Over the last 15 months, tensions have risen in the West Bank between Israeli settlers and Palestinians. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1735814796,"updatedAt":1735816853,"publishedAt":1735816554,"firstPublishedAt":1735816554,"lastPublishedAt":1735816554,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/94\/51\/66\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c9bbe893-5e33-551c-8188-ff1571d43f22-8945166.jpg","altText":"The Jenin refugee camp is pictured in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on 23 December, 2024. ","caption":"The Jenin refugee camp is pictured in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on 23 December, 2024. 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People in Gaza need access to health care. Humanitarians need access to provide health aid. Ceasefire!\u201d\n\nIn an update on Gaza\u2019s healthcare sector, Dr Tedros said that the Al-Ahli Hospital and Al-Wafa Rehabilitation Hospital in Gaza City were attacked on Monday, while four patients were detained as they were transferred from the Indonesia Hospital to the Al-Shifa Hospital. \n\nSeven patients and 15 caregivers and health workers remained at the Indonesian Hospital, which is severely damaged and longer able to provide care, he added. \n\nIn the almost 15 months since Hamas\u2019 deadly 7 October attack on Israel, more than 45,400 Palestians have been killed \u2014 more than half of them women and children \u2014 and 108,000 others injured. Nearly 2 million people have been displaced. \n\nAid workers have warned that many Palestinians in Gaza are facing plunging temperatures without blankets or warm clothing.\n\nOn Sunday, Jumaa al-Batran, a 20-day-old baby, became the fifth person to die from hypothermia in Gaza, according to its Ministry of Health. The child\u2019s twin brother, Ali, remains in intensive care.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israel must stop targeting Palestinian medical facilities, the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) director-general has said, a few days after Israeli forces raided one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli army detained more than 240 people at Kamal Adwan Hospital on Friday, including the director, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya \u2014 whom it accused, without providing evidence, of being a Hamas operative.<\/p>\n<p>MedGlobal, the humanitarian organisation that employs Abu Safiya, called the raid part of an \u201calarming and egregious pattern of targeting medical personnel and spaces\u201d, while the WHO described it as part of a \u201csystematic dismantling of the health system\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Writing on X on Monday, the WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for Dr Abu Safiya\u2019s immediate release. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHospitals in Gaza have once again become battlegrounds and the health system is under severe threat,\u201d Dr Tedros said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe repeat: stop attacks on hospitals. People in Gaza need access to health care. Humanitarians need access to provide health aid. Ceasefire!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an update on Gaza\u2019s healthcare sector, Dr Tedros said that the Al-Ahli Hospital and Al-Wafa Rehabilitation Hospital in Gaza City were attacked on Monday, while four patients were detained as they were transferred from the Indonesia Hospital to the Al-Shifa Hospital. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8938964,8938602\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//29//israeli-airstrike-on-gaza-citys-wafa-hospital-kills-seven-people/">Israeli airstrike on Gaza City's Wafa hospital kills seven people<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//30//20-day-old-baby-dies-from-hypothermia-in-gaza-as-palestinians-seek-winter-shelter/">20-day-old baby dies from hypothermia in Gaza as Palestinians seek winter shelter <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Seven patients and 15 caregivers and health workers remained at the Indonesian Hospital, which is severely damaged and longer able to provide care, he added. <\/p>\n<p>In the almost 15 months since Hamas\u2019 deadly 7 October attack on Israel, more than 45,400 Palestians have been killed \u2014 more than half of them women and children \u2014 and 108,000 others injured. Nearly 2 million people have been displaced. <\/p>\n<p>Aid workers have warned that many Palestinians in Gaza are facing plunging temperatures without blankets or warm clothing.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Jumaa al-Batran, a 20-day-old baby, became the fifth person to die from hypothermia in Gaza, according to its Ministry of Health. The child\u2019s twin brother, Ali, remains in intensive care.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1735554952,"updatedAt":1735556513,"publishedAt":1735555652,"firstPublishedAt":1735555652,"lastPublishedAt":1735555652,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/96\/90\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_08c573d9-4f09-58e0-9692-88fc0e5bcbf0-8939690.jpg","altText":"A Palestinian man sits in Al-Aqsa Hospital mourning relatives killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes on the Maghazi refugee camp on 28 December, 2024.","caption":"A Palestinian man sits in Al-Aqsa Hospital mourning relatives killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes on the Maghazi refugee camp on 28 December, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Abdel Kareem Hana\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":5194,"height":2921}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3272,"urlSafeValue":"sullivan","title":"Rory Sullivan","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":157,"slug":"israel","urlSafeValue":"israel","title":"Israel","titleRaw":"Israel"},{"id":25188,"slug":"gaza-city","urlSafeValue":"gaza-city","title":"Gaza City","titleRaw":"Gaza 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AVIV PROTEST","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Protesters demand Israeli government reach hostage release deal with Hamas","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Israeli protesters demand hostage release deal with Hamas","titleListing2":"Protesters in Tel Aviv demand Israeli government reach hostage release deal with Hamas","leadin":"During Hamas' surprise incursion into southern Israel in October last year, the militants killed at least 1,200 people and took around 250 others hostage and brought them to Gaza.","summary":"During Hamas' surprise incursion into southern Israel in October last year, the militants killed at least 1,200 people and took around 250 others hostage and brought them to Gaza.","keySentence":"","url":"protesters-demand-israeli-government-reach-hostage-release-deal-with-hamas","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/12\/29\/protesters-demand-israeli-government-reach-hostage-release-deal-with-hamas","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Crowds have gathered in Tel Aviv for a weekly rally to demand the Israeli government reach a deal that would return the remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.\n\nAfter months of deadlock, Israel and Hamas are reportedly moving closer toward a ceasefire to end their 14-month war.\n\nSenior officials from the US, Qatar and Egypt resumed their mediation efforts earlier this month and reported greater willingness by both sides to finalise an agreement.\n\n\"The State of Israel, of course, must return the living abductees, but not just them, it is also obligated to return those who are no longer alive,\" said Ofek Shaul, the brother of Israeli soldier Oron Shaul who was killed in Israel's 2014 war with Hamas and whose remains are still being held in Gaza.\n\n\"This is not only a moral and ethical obligation, it is the duty of the state in light of the values on which it was built.\"\n\nDuring Hamas' surprise incursion into southern Israel in October last year, the militants killed at least 1,200 people and took around 250 others hostage and brought them to Gaza.\n\nA previous truce in November last year saw more than 100 hostages released, exchanged for Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons.\n\nIsrael says around 100 hostages remain in captivity in Gaza, but at least a third of them are believed to be dead.\n\n\"I am here today crying out not only for the kidnapped, not only for my father, but for my country. The wounded and bleeding country that needs light, that needs miracles. We need our trust and confidence restored,\" said Ella Ben-Ami, the daughter of one of the hostages.\n\nThe weekly protests have also at times taken on a political dimension with some at the rallies demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu step down and call fresh elections.\n\nThey accuse him of prioritising his political survival over the lives of the hostages.\n\nIsrael's subsequent bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza has killed over 45,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between fighters and civilians in its count.\n\nThe offensive has caused widespread destruction and displaced some 90% of Gaza's 2.3 million people, often multiple times.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Crowds have gathered in Tel Aviv for a weekly rally to demand the Israeli government reach a deal that would return the remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>After months of deadlock, Israel and Hamas are reportedly moving closer toward a ceasefire to end their 14-month war.<\/p>\n<p>Senior officials from the US, Qatar and Egypt resumed their mediation efforts earlier this month and reported greater willingness by both sides to finalise an agreement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//93//78//46//808x539_cmsv2_76050370-14d5-5515-af08-dec1fe8fa23d-8937846.jpg/" alt=\"Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#39;s government in Tel Aviv and call for the release of hostages held in Gaza Strip by Hamas, 28 December, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/384x256_cmsv2_76050370-14d5-5515-af08-dec1fe8fa23d-8937846.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/640x427_cmsv2_76050370-14d5-5515-af08-dec1fe8fa23d-8937846.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/750x500_cmsv2_76050370-14d5-5515-af08-dec1fe8fa23d-8937846.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/828x552_cmsv2_76050370-14d5-5515-af08-dec1fe8fa23d-8937846.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/1080x720_cmsv2_76050370-14d5-5515-af08-dec1fe8fa23d-8937846.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/1200x800_cmsv2_76050370-14d5-5515-af08-dec1fe8fa23d-8937846.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/1920x1280_cmsv2_76050370-14d5-5515-af08-dec1fe8fa23d-8937846.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#39;s government in Tel Aviv and call for the release of hostages held in Gaza Strip by Hamas, 28 December, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ariel Schalit\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"The State of Israel, of course, must return the living abductees, but not just them, it is also obligated to return those who are no longer alive,\" said Ofek Shaul, the brother of Israeli soldier Oron Shaul who was killed in Israel's 2014 war with Hamas and whose remains are still being held in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is not only a moral and ethical obligation, it is the duty of the state in light of the values on which it was built.\"<\/p>\n<p>During Hamas' surprise incursion into southern Israel in October last year, the militants killed at least 1,200 people and took around 250 others hostage and brought them to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>A previous truce in November last year saw more than 100 hostages released, exchanged for Palestinians being held in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n<p>Israel says around 100 hostages remain in captivity in Gaza, but at least a third of them are believed to be dead.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6668173598553345\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//93//78//46//808x539_cmsv2_f87fe397-b66a-5910-a4cf-5bb91deb0408-8937846.jpg/" alt=\"Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#39;s government in Tel Aviv and call for the release of hostages held in Gaza Strip by Hamas, 28 December, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/384x256_cmsv2_f87fe397-b66a-5910-a4cf-5bb91deb0408-8937846.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/640x427_cmsv2_f87fe397-b66a-5910-a4cf-5bb91deb0408-8937846.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/750x500_cmsv2_f87fe397-b66a-5910-a4cf-5bb91deb0408-8937846.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/828x552_cmsv2_f87fe397-b66a-5910-a4cf-5bb91deb0408-8937846.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/1080x720_cmsv2_f87fe397-b66a-5910-a4cf-5bb91deb0408-8937846.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/1200x800_cmsv2_f87fe397-b66a-5910-a4cf-5bb91deb0408-8937846.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/1920x1280_cmsv2_f87fe397-b66a-5910-a4cf-5bb91deb0408-8937846.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#39;s government in Tel Aviv and call for the release of hostages held in Gaza Strip by Hamas, 28 December, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ariel Schalit\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"I am here today crying out not only for the kidnapped, not only for my father, but for my country. The wounded and bleeding country that needs light, that needs miracles. We need our trust and confidence restored,\" said Ella Ben-Ami, the daughter of one of the hostages.<\/p>\n<p>The weekly protests have also at times taken on a political dimension with some at the rallies demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu step down and call fresh elections.<\/p>\n<p>They accuse him of prioritising his political survival over the lives of the hostages.<\/p>\n<p>Israel's subsequent bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza has killed over 45,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between fighters and civilians in its count.<\/p>\n<p>The offensive has caused widespread destruction and displaced some 90% of Gaza's 2.3 million people, often multiple times.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1735426010,"updatedAt":1735447503,"publishedAt":1735447090,"firstPublishedAt":1735447090,"lastPublishedAt":1735447090,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/93\/78\/46\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e40b5b9d-83f8-51a9-ba8e-5881a66432c7-8937846.jpg","altText":"Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv and call for the release of hostages held in Gaza Strip by Hamas, 28 December, 2024","caption":"Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in Tel Aviv and call for the release of hostages held in Gaza Strip by Hamas, 28 December, 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Ariel Schalit\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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HANIYEH IRAN","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Israel confirms it killed Hamas' Ismail Haniyeh in Iran in July as it takes aim at Yemen's Houthis","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Israel confirms it killed Hamas political leader in Tehran in July ","titleListing2":"Israel confirms it killed Hamas' Ismail Haniyeh in Iran in July as it takes aim at Yemen's Houthis","leadin":"Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran this summer, revealing the extent of Israel's operations against militant leaders.","summary":"Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran this summer, revealing the extent of Israel's operations against militant leaders.","keySentence":"","url":"israel-confirms-it-killed-hamas-ismail-haniyeh-in-iran-in-july-as-it-takes-aim-at-yemens-h","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/12\/24\/israel-confirms-it-killed-hamas-ismail-haniyeh-in-iran-in-july-as-it-takes-aim-at-yemens-h","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israel assassinated Hamas' top leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran last summer, Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed.\n\nThe comments by Katz appeared to mark the first time that Israel has acknowledged killing Haniyeh, who died in an explosion in Tehran in July. Israel was widely believed to be behind the blast, but its leaders only hinted at its involvement.\n\nIn a speech Monday, Katz also noted that Israel has killed other leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, helped topple Syria's Bashar al-Assad and destroyed Iran's anti-aircraft systems. Now, Israel was focusing on Yemen's Houthi rebels, according to the defence minister.\n\n\"We will strike (the Houthis') strategic infrastructure and cut off the head of the leadership,\" he said.\n\n\"Just like we did to Haniyeh, (Yahya) Sinwar and (Hassan) Nasrallah in Tehran, Gaza and Lebanon, we will do in Hodeida and Sanaa,\" he said, referring to Hamas and Hezbollah leaders killed in previous Israeli attacks.\n\nWho was Ismail Haniyeh?\n\nHaniyeh, 62, was the leader of Hamas's political wing and a prominent face of the organisation for decades.\n\nBack in July, observers said Haniyeh's death had dealt a significant blow to Hamas at a time when tensions were flaring in the Middle East over the devastating war in Gaza and raised questions about the future of negotiations between the militant group and Israel.\n\nIn recent years, Haniyeh ran the group's political office from exile in Qatar, but his career stretches back decades.\n\nBorn on 29 January 1963 in the al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Haniyeh began his political career by closely aligning himself with Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, joining the paramilitary group during the First Intifada in the late 1980s.\n\nNicknamed Abu al-Abd, he was appointed as a member of the secretive \"collective leadership\" team in 2004 after Sheik Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi \u2014 Hamas' two previous leaders \u2014 were killed by Israel.\n\nIn the wake of the 7 October attack on Israel's territory, in which Hamas fighters killed at least 1,200 people and took more than 200 people hostage, Haniyeh became a key figure in negotiations to end the ensuing war in the Gaza Strip.\n\nHowever, Israeli officials have several times held him responsible for the failure of peace talks and blamed him for refusing to release the hostages still alive in captivity in Gaza.\n\nDespite holding a leadership position, Haniyeh faced his share of criticism from within Hamas on more than one occasion since the start of the war.\n\nThere were reports of disagreements between him and Sinwar, the military leader of Hamas inside Gaza killed by Israel in October, over both the approach to the ceasefire negotiations and military strategy.\n\nIn April, Israeli police arrested one of Haniyeh's sisters on suspicion of having ties to members of the movement. A short time later, three of his sons and four of his grandchildren were killed in Israeli airstrikes.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israel assassinated Hamas' top leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran last summer, Defence Minister Israel Katz confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The comments by Katz appeared to mark the first time that Israel has acknowledged killing Haniyeh, who died in an explosion in Tehran in July. Israel was widely believed to be behind the blast, but its leaders only hinted at its involvement.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech Monday, Katz also noted that Israel has killed other leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, helped topple Syria's Bashar al-Assad and destroyed Iran's anti-aircraft systems. Now, Israel was focusing on Yemen's Houthi rebels, according to the defence minister.<\/p>\n<p>\"We will strike (the Houthis') strategic infrastructure and cut off the head of the leadership,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>\"Just like we did to Haniyeh, (Yahya) Sinwar and (Hassan) Nasrallah in Tehran, Gaza and Lebanon, we will do in Hodeida and Sanaa,\" he said, referring to Hamas and Hezbollah leaders killed in previous Israeli attacks.<\/p>\n<h2>Who was Ismail Haniyeh?<\/h2><p>Haniyeh, 62, was the leader of Hamas's political wing and a prominent face of the organisation for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Back in July, observers said Haniyeh's death had dealt a significant blow to Hamas at a time when tensions were flaring in the Middle East over the devastating war in Gaza and raised questions about the future of negotiations between the militant group and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Haniyeh ran the group's political office from exile in Qatar, but his career stretches back decades.<\/p>\n<p>Born on 29 January 1963 in the al-Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Haniyeh began his political career by closely aligning himself with Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, joining the paramilitary group during the First Intifada in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed Abu al-Abd, he was appointed as a member of the secretive \"collective leadership\" team in 2004 after Sheik Ahmed Yassin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi \u2014 Hamas' two previous leaders \u2014 were killed by Israel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6513671875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//92//98//92//808x525_cmsv2_b651daca-8583-5cd3-a191-fa8ed28d33c1-8929892.jpg/" alt=\"FILE: Head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, left, and Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar attend a protest in Gaza City, 26 June 2019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/98\/92\/384x250_cmsv2_b651daca-8583-5cd3-a191-fa8ed28d33c1-8929892.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/98\/92\/640x417_cmsv2_b651daca-8583-5cd3-a191-fa8ed28d33c1-8929892.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/98\/92\/750x489_cmsv2_b651daca-8583-5cd3-a191-fa8ed28d33c1-8929892.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/98\/92\/828x539_cmsv2_b651daca-8583-5cd3-a191-fa8ed28d33c1-8929892.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/98\/92\/1080x703_cmsv2_b651daca-8583-5cd3-a191-fa8ed28d33c1-8929892.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/98\/92\/1200x782_cmsv2_b651daca-8583-5cd3-a191-fa8ed28d33c1-8929892.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/98\/92\/1920x1251_cmsv2_b651daca-8583-5cd3-a191-fa8ed28d33c1-8929892.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">FILE: Head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, left, and Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar attend a protest in Gaza City, 26 June 2019<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Khalil Hamra<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the wake of the 7 October attack on Israel's territory, in which Hamas fighters killed at least 1,200 people and took more than 200 people hostage, Haniyeh became a key figure in negotiations to end the ensuing war in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>However, Israeli officials have several times held him responsible for the failure of peace talks and blamed him for refusing to release the hostages still alive in captivity in Gaza.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8619436,8621608\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//08//01//thousands-attend-funeral-for-assassinated-hamas-leader-ismail-haniyeh/">Thousands attend funeral for assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//07//31//eu-calls-for-maximum-restraint-after-hamas-leader-ismail-haniyehs-assassination/">EU calls for 'maximum restraint' after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's assassination<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Despite holding a leadership position, Haniyeh faced his share of criticism from within Hamas on more than one occasion since the start of the war.<\/p>\n<p>There were reports of disagreements between him and Sinwar, the military leader of Hamas inside Gaza killed by Israel in October, over both the approach to the ceasefire negotiations and military strategy.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Israeli police arrested one of Haniyeh's sisters on suspicion of having ties to members of the movement. A short time later, three of his sons and four of his grandchildren were killed in Israeli airstrikes.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1735027803,"updatedAt":1735035318,"publishedAt":1735029026,"firstPublishedAt":1735029026,"lastPublishedAt":1735029026,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/98\/92\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c91aa0e4-2a56-5181-99d6-034296e84ba2-8929892.jpg","altText":"Yemeni protesters raise their machine guns during a protest to condemn the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, in Sanaa, 2 August 2024","caption":"Yemeni protesters raise their machine guns during a protest to condemn the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, in Sanaa, 2 August 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Osamah 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TEL AVIV ATTACK","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Rocket fired from Yemen injures several people in Israeli city of Tel Aviv","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Rocket fired from Yemen hits Israeli city of Tel Aviv","titleListing2":"Rocket fired from Yemen injures several people in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv","leadin":"Yemen's Houthi rebels issued a statement on Telegram saying they had aimed a hypersonic ballistic missile at an unidentified military target.","summary":"Yemen's Houthi rebels issued a statement on Telegram saying they had aimed a hypersonic ballistic missile at an unidentified military target.","keySentence":"","url":"rocket-fired-from-yemen-injures-several-people-in-israeli-city-of-tel-aviv","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/12\/21\/rocket-fired-from-yemen-injures-several-people-in-israeli-city-of-tel-aviv","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Some 16 people were injured by shattered glass after a rocket fired from Yemen hit the Jaffa district of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv overnight.\n\nAnother 14 people sustained minor injuries as they rushed to shelters when air raid sirens sounded before dawn Saturday, the Israeli military said.\n\nThe Houthis issued a statement on Telegram claiming responsibility for the attack, saying they had aimed a hypersonic ballistic missile at a military target.\n\n\u201cA flash of light, a blow and we fell to the ground. Big mess, broken glasses all over the place,\u201d said Bar Katz, a resident of a damaged building.\n\nThe attack came after Israeli airstrikes on Yemen\u2019s Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, and port city of Hodeida killed at least nine people on Thursday. \n\nThe Israeli strikes were in response to a Houthi long-range missile that hit a school building in central Israel.\n\nThe Houthis also claimed a drone strike targeting an unspecified military target in central Israel on Thursday.\n\nIsrael's military says the Iran-backed Houthis have launched more than 200 missiles and drones during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. \n\nThe Houthis have also attacked shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and say they won\u2019t stop until there is a ceasefire in Gaza.\n\nThe Israeli strikes on Thursday caused \u201cconsiderable damage\u201d to the Houthi-controlled Red Sea ports that will lead to the \"immediate and significant reduction in port capacity,\u201d UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. \n\nThe Hodeida port has been key for food shipments into Yemen in its decade-long civil war.\n\nUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said both sides\u2019 attacks risk further escalation in the region.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Some 16 people were injured by shattered glass after a rocket fired from Yemen hit the Jaffa district of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Another 14 people sustained minor injuries as they rushed to shelters when air raid sirens sounded before dawn Saturday, the Israeli military said.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis issued a statement on Telegram claiming responsibility for the attack, saying they had aimed a hypersonic ballistic missile at a military target.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA flash of light, a blow and we fell to the ground. Big mess, broken glasses all over the place,\u201d said Bar Katz, a resident of a damaged building.<\/p>\n<p>The attack came after Israeli airstrikes on Yemen\u2019s Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, and port city of Hodeida killed at least nine people on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The Israeli strikes were in response to a Houthi long-range missile that hit a school building in central Israel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//92//57//12//808x454_cmsv2_04219692-defa-5c57-8ef2-1cfd72ca1c43-8925712.jpg/" alt=\"The blast caused windows to shatter, injuring people around them.\" 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(max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The blast caused windows to shatter, injuring people around them.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Houthis also claimed a drone strike targeting an unspecified military target in central Israel on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Israel's military says the Iran-backed Houthis have launched more than 200 missiles and drones during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>The Houthis have also attacked shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and say they won\u2019t stop until there is a ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli strikes on Thursday caused \u201cconsiderable damage\u201d to the Houthi-controlled Red Sea ports that will lead to the \"immediate and significant reduction in port 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in the Middle East right now?","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"UK changes travel advice for Israel: Where is it safe to visit in the Middle East right now?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"UK Foreign Office lifts advice against travel to Israel","titleListing2":"UK changes travel advice for Israel: Where is it safe to visit in the Middle East right now?","leadin":"Travel advisories have been lifted after they were imposed 15 months ago in October 2023.","summary":"Travel advisories have been lifted after they were imposed 15 months ago in October 2023.","keySentence":"","url":"uk-changes-travel-advice-for-israel-where-is-it-safe-to-visit-in-the-middle-east-right-now","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/12\/17\/uk-changes-travel-advice-for-israel-where-is-it-safe-to-visit-in-the-middle-east-right-now","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The UK Foreign Office (FCDO) changed official travel advice which warned against \u201call travel\u201d or \u201call but essential travel\u201d to the majority of Israel. \n\nTravel advisories have changed for key tourist destinations including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Eilat, the Dead Sea, Galilee and Haifa. Visitors are now only advised to check advice before they travel to these areas. \n\nThe FCDO still advises against all but essential travel to areas within some parts of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories including Gaza and the West Bank. It also advises against travel to areas within 500 metres of the border with Syria and Gaza. \n\nFCDO advises against all but essential travel to the area between the Lebanon border and (but not including) Route 89 excluding Nahriyyah.\n\nTravel advisories have been lifted after they were imposed 15 months ago in October 2023. \n\nThe updated advice says the frequency of rocket attacks has decreased significantly but warns that there is \u201cincreased risk of political tension\u201d which could cause demonstrations and clashes around anniversaries of significant events. \n\n\u201cThe Israeli government declared a state of emergency across the whole country on 7 October [2023] and this remains in place,\u201d the FCDO says. It adds that international air and land borders could close at short notice and visitors should check the latest information before they travel. \n\nIs it safe to travel to Egypt?\n\nEscalating tensions in the region have left many concerned about travelling to neighbouring countries. \n\nDespite lifting travel warnings for Israel, the FCDO still advises against visiting large areas of Egypt. This includes within 20km of the Egypt-Libya border - except for the town of El Salloum, where it advises against all but essential travel - and the North Sinai Governorate.\n\nThe FCDO advises against all but essential travel to the northern part of the South Sinai Governorate, beyond the St Catherine-Nuweibaa road, except for the coastal areas along the west and east of the peninsula.\n\nIts advice is the same for the Ismailiyah Governorate east of the Suez Canal, the Hala\u2019ib Triangle, the Bir Tawil Trapezoid and the area west of the Nile Valley and Nile Delta regions, except for:\n\nLuxor, Qina, Aswan, Abu Simbel and the Valley of the Kings\n\nthe Faiyum Governorate\n\nthe coastal areas between the Nile Delta and Marsa Matruh\n\nthe Marsa Matruh-Siwa road\n\nthe oasis town of Siwa\n\nthe Giza Governorate north-east of the Bahariya Oasis\n\nthe road between Giza and Farafra (but FCDO advises against all but essential travel on the road between Bahariya and Siwa)\n\nBahariya Oasis, Farafra, the White Desert and Black Desert\n\nIs it safe to travel to Lebanon right now?\n\nLebanon lies to the north of Israel and shares a border. Despite a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanese Hizballah coming into force on 27 November, the FCDO says the security environment remains unpredictable. \n\nIt advises against all travel to Lebanon and urges Britons to leave by commercial means. Foreign offices in other European countries, including Ireland and France, have also advised against all travel to the country. \n\nIs it safe to travel to Syria right now?\n\nThe FCDO advises against all travel to Syria due to \u201congoing conflict and unpredictable security conditions\u201d. It urges all British nationals to leave the country by any practical means. \n\nThe Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad fell in early December, bringing a shocking end to his family\u2019s 50-year reign following an offensive by Islamist rebels.\n\nIs it safe to travel to Jordan right now?\n\nJordan shares a border with Israel and the West Bank as well as with Syria.\n\nThe FCDO advises against all travel to within 3km of the border with Syria but borders remain open and most tourist destinations in Jordan have been unaffected by the instability. \n\nSome flights to Amman and Aqaba airports have been affected so it is worth checking before you travel. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The UK Foreign Office (FCDO) changed official travel advice which warned against \u201call travel\u201d or \u201call but essential travel\u201d to the majority of Israel. <\/p>\n<p>Travel advisories have changed for key tourist destinations including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Eilat, the Dead Sea, Galilee and Haifa. Visitors are now only advised to check advice before they travel to these areas. <\/p>\n<p>The FCDO still advises against all but essential travel to areas within some parts of Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories including Gaza and the West Bank. It also advises against travel to areas within 500 metres of the border with Syria and Gaza. <\/p>\n<p>FCDO advises against all but essential travel to the area between the Lebanon border and (but not including) Route 89 excluding Nahriyyah.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"7426164,8180900\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//12//24//europes-summer-travel-strikes-when-where-and-what-disruption-you-can-expect-in-october/">Europe's travel strikes: Flight and train disruption you can expect in January<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//12//13//romania-and-bulgaria-will-enter-the-schengen-zone-in-2024-what-will-change-for-travellers/">Romania and Bulgaria will be in the Schengen zone from January. What will change for travellers?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Travel advisories have been lifted after they were imposed 15 months ago in October 2023. <\/p>\n<p>The updated advice says the frequency of rocket attacks has decreased significantly but warns that there is \u201cincreased risk of political tension\u201d which could cause demonstrations and clashes around anniversaries of significant events. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Israeli government declared a state of emergency across the whole country on 7 October [2023] and this remains in place,\u201d the FCDO says. It adds that international air and land <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//06//25//the-loss-is-noticeable-georgias-summer-season-hit-by-lack-of-israeli-tourists/">borders could close<\/strong><\/a> at short notice and visitors should check the latest information before they travel. <\/p>\n<h2>Is it safe to travel to Egypt?<\/h2><p>Escalating tensions in the region have left many concerned about travelling to neighbouring countries. <\/p>\n<p>Despite lifting travel warnings for Israel, the FCDO still advises against visiting large areas of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//video//2024//10//20//1-billion-grand-egyptian-museum-launches-partial-opening-for-4000-daily-visits/">Egypt. This includes within 20km of the Egypt-Libya border - except for the town of El Salloum, where it advises against all but essential travel - and the North Sinai Governorate.<\/p>\n<p>The FCDO advises against all but essential travel to the northern part of the South Sinai Governorate, beyond the St Catherine-Nuweibaa road, except for the coastal areas along the west and east of the peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Its advice is the same for the Ismailiyah Governorate east of the Suez Canal, the Hala\u2019ib Triangle, the Bir Tawil Trapezoid and the area west of the Nile Valley and Nile Delta regions, except for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Luxor, Qina, Aswan, Abu Simbel and the Valley of the Kings<\/li>\n<li>the Faiyum Governorate<\/li>\n<li>the coastal areas between the Nile Delta and Marsa Matruh<\/li>\n<li>the Marsa Matruh-Siwa road<\/li>\n<li>the oasis town of Siwa<\/li>\n<li>the Giza Governorate north-east of the Bahariya Oasis<\/li>\n<li>the road between Giza and Farafra (but FCDO advises against all but essential travel on the road between Bahariya and Siwa)<\/li>\n<li>Bahariya Oasis, Farafra, the White Desert and Black Desert<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Is it safe to travel to Lebanon right now?<\/h2><p>Lebanon lies to the north of Israel and shares a border. Despite a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanese Hizballah coming into force on 27 November, the FCDO says the security environment remains unpredictable. <\/p>\n<p>It advises against all travel to Lebanon and urges Britons to leave by commercial means. Foreign offices in other European countries, including Ireland and France, have also <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//09//25//the-time-to-leave-is-now-european-countries-urge-nationals-to-leave-lebanon/">advised against all travel to the country<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<h2>Is it safe to travel to Syria right now?<\/h2><p>The FCDO advises against all travel to Syria due to \u201congoing conflict and unpredictable security conditions\u201d. It urges all British nationals to leave the country by any practical means. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8902916\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//12//10//eus-biometric-entryexit-border-system-set-to-launch-in-2025-wholl-need-to-use-it/">EU/u2019s biometric Entry\/Exit border system set to launch in 2025: Who\u2019ll need to use it?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad fell in early December, bringing a shocking end to his family\u2019s 50-year reign following an offensive by Islamist rebels.<\/p>\n<h2>Is it safe to travel to Jordan right now?<\/h2><p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2021//10//07//a-guide-to-jordan-what-to-see-and-do-while-you-re-there/">Jordan shares a border with Israel and the West Bank as well as with Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The FCDO advises against all travel to within 3km of the border with Syria but borders remain open and most tourist destinations in Jordan have been unaffected by the instability. <\/p>\n<p>Some flights to Amman and Aqaba airports have been affected so it is worth checking before you travel. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734449313,"updatedAt":1734510553,"publishedAt":1734450017,"firstPublishedAt":1734450017,"lastPublishedAt":1734450017,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/72\/28\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b9f900f9-746e-583b-9634-624d57dd4fd8-8917228.jpg","altText":"A couple walks along the shore of a beach in Tel Aviv, Israel.","caption":"A couple walks along the shore of a beach in Tel Aviv, 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