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Qatar Says It Is Reviewing Its Mediator Role as Israel-Hamas Talks Stall
Qatar’s prime minister has said that his government is reviewing its role as a key mediator between Israel and Hamas after criticism by U.S. and Israeli officials, who have urged it to exert more pressure on the Palestinian armed group to reach a ...
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Military Aid Cannot Be Unconditional
The suffering of civilians in Gaza — tens of thousands dead, many of them children; hundreds of thousands homeless, many at risk of starvation — has become more than a growing number of Americans can abide. And yet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...
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Israel Announces New Operation Against Hamas, After Killing Top Leader’s Sons
The Israeli military announced what it called a precise operation to kill members of Hamas in Gaza on Thursday, a day after a strike there killed relatives of one of the group’s most senior leaders. Ismail Haniyeh, who leads the political wing of ...
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Hamas Does Not Have 40 Hostages Who Meet Terms of Potential Swap With Israel, Officials Said
A senior Hamas official said on Wednesday that Hamas does not have 40 living hostages in Gaza who meet the criteria for an exchange under a proposed cease-fire agreement with Israel being negotiated. A senior Israeli official said Israel had been ...
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Israel: Cease-Fire, Get Hostages, Leave Gaza, Rethink Everything
Israel today is at a strategic point in its war in Gaza, and there is every indication that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to choose the wrong path — and take the Biden administration along for a very dangerous and troubling ride. It is ...
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Netanyahu Must Go
It’s no secret to readers of this column where I stand on Israel’s war in Gaza. Israel must destroy Hamas as a military and political force in the territory while minimizing harm to civilians. It must do what it can to rescue its hostages without ...
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Active Fighting Subsides in Gaza, but the War Is Not Over, Officials Say
Israeli troops have left southern Gaza, and some Palestinians returned to the area, where there was a sense of horror at the scope of destruction.
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Israel’s withdrawal suggests the war has entered a new phase.
The Israeli military’s departure from southern Gaza over the weekend has left the territory without a major battlefield for the first time since a brief truce with Hamas in November, raising hopes that the two sides might reach another cease-fire ...
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At Rally for Hostages, Some Boo When Congressman Calls for Gaza Aid
Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York was booed on Sunday at a demonstration in Manhattan calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas after he encouraged attendees to also push for humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza. “As we remember ...
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What Netanyahu Must Do to Bring Home the Hostages
If the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, were serious about securing the release of all the hostages in Gaza, they would have been home long ago. From his first official statements after Oct. 7, Mr. Netanyahu has placed a higher priority on ...
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