After release of Israeli hostages, Israel plays fast and loose with Palestinian prisoners and their families; polio vaccines resume; update on Tel Aviv bus bombings; Israeli violence in West Bank; is the UK spying on Hamas for Israel?
Netanyahu allows 2 bulldozers to enter Gaza; clean water crisis, infectious diseases in Gaza; next hostage release; Jenin news; Palestinian tax revenues; Congress in Israel; more.
Israel ravages, then withdraws from Netzarim Corridor; Palestinian prisoners released in poor health; 3 skinny Israeli hostages is a “crime against humanity”?; unexploded ordnance in Gaza; Trump bypasses Congress in $8B arms sale to Israel
Rafah crossing opened for limited medical evacuation; 180 Palestinians released in prisoner swap show signs of torture; Israeli forces kill 6 in West Bank, including teenager; Netanyahu to meet Trump Sunday
Harsh conditions in Gaza, as Trump admin halts almost all foreign aid (Israel is exempt); private US security contractors to run checkpoints in Gaza; countdown to UNRWA departure; West Bank under fire; Pope Francis stays in touch with Gaza; Lebanon news; Harvard; more.
Unlike what Fox viewers were told, the 90 recently released Palestinian prisoners were women and teens, often imprisoned for social media posts. A large number had never even been charged with a crime.
Sexual assaults by Israeli forces come to light; Palestinian journalist killed; Kamal Adwan’s De. Hussam Abu Safia held in Ofer Prison; ceasefire reports; pursuing a war criminal in Italy; Jimmy Carter olive grove; new settlement units; extremist Israeli settler leaders to be ‘special guests’ at Trump inauguration; more.
Truce may be very near, as Gaza’s children suffer; northern Gaza hits 100 days without food, water; Israel tortures to death another Palestinian prisoner; Gaza struggles under the weight of tens of millions of tons of rubble; Israel’s scholasticide in the West Bank; calls for 1 million new illegal Israeli settlers; more.
Death is everywhere in Gaza; unexploded munitions litter the enclave; a prisoner swap deal may be close; Palestinian Authority besieges Jenin; 1,000 Israeli soldiers’ names sent to Int’l Criminal Court
Pause and prisoner exchange, humanitarian, hospital, & West Bank updates, Pope says not a war, but “terrorism,” US statements