Ethar Shalaby

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Hamas has dismissed reports about extending the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, as part of a temporary deal to release more Israeli captives. “We are committed to what has already been agreed upon and moving to the second phase of the deal,” Hazem Qassem, the group’s spokesman said on Thursday. His remarks come as Israeli media reports that the US aims to extend the truce’s first stage. Israel and Hamas are currently resuming a new round of ceasefire talks in Doha.

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has authenticated 54 “attacks on health centres” in the occupied West Bank since January, according to the spokesperson of the United Nation Secretary General Stephane Dujarric. She said the attacks resulted in four deaths and nine injuries since January, and 20 health facilities are now completely out of service due to the Israeli attacks.

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Israel is retaining the corpses of 676 Palestinians in freezers and burial sites known as “cemeteries of numbers”, says the National Campaign to retrieve Martyrs’ Bodies, a Palestinian advocacy group. Some of the bodies belong to around 60 children and nine women. The organisation says the number of bodies has increased this week following the Israeli killing of three Palestinians in Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.

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Israel said it targeted on Thursday Hezbollah facilities used for "manufacturing and storing strategic weapons" in the Bekaa area in southern Lebanon. Meanwhile, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam described Israel’s military presence in parts of south Lebanon as an “assault on our sovereignty and territorial integrity”. Nawaf said that the government’s top priorities are to “reclaim war and peace decisions” and to hold weapons.

1 month ago | middleeasteye.net | Ethar Shalaby

A group of US Jewish activists have protested in Trump Tower in New York city, calling for the immediate release of Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained for organising a pro-Palestine protest on campus. Footage of the sit in showed police forces escorting protesters out of the tower and arresting them. “The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil by the Trump regime is further proof that we are on the brink of a full takeover by an authoritarian regime.