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Egypt Today
4 days ago
- Politics
- Egypt Today
French President praise mediators' efforts to reach ceasefire in Gaza
CAIRO – 30 May 2025: French President Emmanuel Macron praised Egypt and Qatar for their efforts to achieve a ceasefire, saying, 'I salute the Egyptian, Qatari, and American efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza. We cannot leave Israel free to do whatever it wants in Gaza.' Hamas said on Friday that it is still consulting with Palestinian forces and factions regarding the US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff ceasefire proposal in Gaza that was received via mediators. In another statement, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) called on the Hamas leadership to exert more efforts, in cooperation with Arab mediators, to reach an agreement to halt the aggression in the Gaza Strip, even for 60 days. The statement explained that this period would be sufficient to allow for regional and international initiatives to develop the situation in the favor of the Palestinian people. The official spokesman for DFLP said that given the impasse in the ongoing negotiations with the US administration to halt the aggression on the Gaza Strip, due to Washington's clear bias towards the Israeli position of continuing the war, the Front is fully confident that the Hamas leadership is fully aware of the grave dangers facing our people if a ceasefire is not reached immediately. High hopes are pinned on the US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff ceasefire proposal in Gaza after Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced accepting it; while Hamas said in a statement that it has received it via mediators and will 'study it responsibly'. The new suggested proposal is to secure a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and allow aid to enter the Strip following the two sides' approval. The White House also expressed its optimism with the new proposal from envoy Steve Witkoff according to Axios, saying that this proposal expected to help bridge the remaining gaps between Israel and Hamas and produce a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza soon. 'If each side moves just a bit, we could have a deal within days,' Axios quoted a source. In case Hamas announced its approval; the United States President Donald Trump will explain details of the new brokered deal. According to Israeli reports, Witkoff has affirmed repeatedly Trump's commitment to reaching a ceasefire in Gaza. The proposal states that US, Egypt, and Qatar are listed as guarantors for maintaining the ceasefire over the 60-day period and any potential extension.
Egypt Today
4 days ago
- Politics
- Egypt Today
Hamas says consultations still ongoing regarding Witkoff proposal
CAIRO – 30 May 2025: Hamas said on Friday that it is still consulting with Palestinian forces and factions regarding the US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff ceasefire proposal in Gaza that was received via mediators. In another statement, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) called on the Hamas leadership to exert more efforts, in cooperation with Arab mediators, to reach an agreement to halt the aggression in the Gaza Strip, even for 60 days. The statement explained that this period would be sufficient to allow for regional and international initiatives to develop the situation in the favor of the Palestinian people. The official spokesman for DFLP said that given the impasse in the ongoing negotiations with the US administration to halt the aggression on the Gaza Strip, due to Washington's clear bias towards the Israeli position of continuing the war, the Front is fully confident that the Hamas leadership is fully aware of the grave dangers facing our people if a ceasefire is not reached immediately. High hopes are pinned on the US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff ceasefire proposal in Gaza after Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced accepting it; while Hamas said in a statement that it has received it via mediators and will 'study it responsibly'. The new suggested proposal is to secure a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and allow aid to enter the Strip following the two sides' approval. The White House also expressed its optimism with the new proposal from envoy Steve Witkoff according to Axios, saying that this proposal expected to help bridge the remaining gaps between Israel and Hamas and produce a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza soon. 'If each side moves just a bit, we could have a deal within days,' Axios quoted a source. In case Hamas announced its approval; the United States President Donald Trump will explain details of the new brokered deal. According to Israeli reports, Witkoff has affirmed repeatedly Trump's commitment to reaching a ceasefire in Gaza. The proposal states that US, Egypt, and Qatar are listed as guarantors for maintaining the ceasefire over the 60-day period and any potential extension. Trump will be guaranteeing Israel's compliance, while Hamas is to release 10 living hostages and the remains of 18 individuals—half on the first day and half on the seventh day of the ceasefire, according to the proposal. Also, humanitarian aid is to be delivered to Gaza once both sides agree on the ceasefire and its distribution will be coordinated by the UN and the Red Crescent. On the tenth day of the ceasefire, Hamas is expected to provide full information regarding all remaining hostages. The Israeli occupation authorities have closed the Gaza crossings since March 2, following the end of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement. An agreement to consolidate the ceasefire was not reached, and Israel violated it with airstrikes on March 18, resuming its ground incursion and occupying various areas of the Gaza Strip. Israel also blocked relief aid and reconstruction equipment from entering Gaza. Limited aid trucks resumed entry into Gaza on Monday, May 19.
Saba Yemen
14-05-2025
- Health
- Saba Yemen
Factions, forces condemn Israeli targeting of European hospital in Gaza
Gaza - Saba: Palestinian factions and forces condemned on Tuesday evening the Israeli enemy's targeting of the European Hospital and its surroundings, in a new crime targeting hospitals in the Gaza Strip. At least 28 Palestinians were killed, a large number were injured, and several citizens were missing under the rubble, after the enemy targeted the vicinity of the Gaza European Hospital in Khan Yunis with explosive belts. A house was also bombed in the southern Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Freedom Movement, in a statement, considered that the pretexts advanced by the Israeli army and its security institutions, claiming that resistance leaders and figures were hiding under the building of the Gaza European Hospital and other hospitals, are intended to target the medical sector, create a state of health insecurity, and eliminate or even prevent the continued existence of medical service institutions in the Gaza Strip, given the already severe shortage of services. It noted that the Israeli enemy deliberately targets civilian gatherings, from hospitals, shelters and displacement centers to food distribution points, as part of a systematic war of extermination aimed at inflicting the greatest number of casualties among defenseless civilians and breaking the will of our people through killing, starvation, and siege. For its part, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) condemned in the strongest terms the bloody massacres committed by Israeli enemy forces against health facilities in the southern Gaza Strip, the most recent of which was the targeting of the Gaza European Hospital and its surroundings in Khan Yunis Governorate, just hours after a department at Nasser Hospital in the same city was bombed. The DFLP noted that these successive crimes against health facilities and medical personnel clearly reveal the enemy's deliberate implementation of a policy of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip through the systematic targeting of the health sector and its means of survival, which constitutes a full-fledged war crime under international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions. The Front emphasized that international silence and the open political and military support of the United States and some Western countries for the enemy have provided a canopy of impunity and allowed the enemy to continue committing further massacres and violations without any deterrent. The Democratic Front called for urgent and effective international action that goes beyond verbal condemnation and leads to the prosecution of the enemy's leaders as war criminals before the International Criminal Court, the imposition of deterrent sanctions on the enemy, and an end to its ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. The Front called for the provision of urgent medical and humanitarian support to the exhausted health sector in Gaza, strengthening its steadfastness in the face of systematic Zionist targeting, and ensuring full protection for medical personnel and health facilities, which have become direct targets of the aggression. The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, confirmed in an earlier statement that the brutal, intensive raids launched by the fascist enemy army on the premises of the Gaza European Hospital and its surroundings constitute a new crime targeting the remaining hospitals in the Gaza Strip, with the aim of putting them out of service. This crime comes after a similar bombing targeted the surgical building at Nasser Hospital, which resulted in the death of journalist Hassan Taslih, several others wounded, and massive destruction throughout the area. The death toll in the Gaza Strip continues to accelerate amid the intense targeting by the Israeli enemy army of the besieged Strip, which has been under siege for 583 days, amid shameful Arab and international silence. The death toll from the Zionist military aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has risen to 52,908 martyrs, in addition to 119,721 wounded, some with serious and very serious injuries, the majority of whom are children and women. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
Saba Yemen
03-05-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
Democratic Front Warns: Genocidal crimes push Gaza toward major humanitarian catastrophe
Beirut – Saba: The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) has warned that the Gaza Strip is facing a major humanitarian catastrophe due to the genocidal crimes committed by the Zionist enemy through starvation and mass killings. In a statement issued on Saturday, the DFLP called for "a comprehensive mobilization at the national, Arab, international levels to stop the crime and avert the tragedy." It emphasized that "the objectives of the Israeli aggression are no longer limited to the issue of prisoners held by the resistance but have expanded to the direct targeting of civilians through daily massacres aimed at breaking their will and forcing them into mass displacement." The statement urged "the broadest national mobilization, encompassing the West Bank, the Palestinian interior, and the diaspora—particularly refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria—as well as Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim communities in Europe, America, and worldwide, to raise their voices against the massacre and expose its dimensions to international public opinion." The DFLP appealed to Arab and friendly nations at the United Nations to "work toward convening an emergency session of the Security Council and adopting a binding resolution under Chapter VII to halt the massacres in Gaza and save the remaining population." It warned that "history will not forgive those who remain inactive in the face of this ongoing crime." The Zionist enemy resumed its aggression and intensified siege on Gaza at dawn on March 18, 2025, following a two-month pause under a ceasefire agreement that took effect on January 19. However, the enemy violated the terms of the agreement throughout the truce period. With American and European support, the Zionist enemy has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, resulting in over 170,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded—most of them children and women—along with more than 14,000 missing persons. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (International)
Memri
26-01-2025
- Politics
- Memri
Palestinian National Council Deputy Chairman Ali Faisal: Netanyahu Will Face a "New" October 7 of "Another Kind;" New Layers of Struggle Will Be Built Upon This, Until a Palestinian Victory is Achieve
Palestinian National Council Deputy Chairman and senior DFLP official Ali Faisal said in a January 15, 2025 show on Al-Masirah TV (Houthis-Yemen) that: "Another October 7 is ahead of us in the Gaza Strip, and it will launch the Palestinian resistance once again, in the West Bank, in Gaza, and wherever it may be." He added: "[Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu] will face a new October 7 of another kind, one upon which new layers of struggle will be built, until a Palestinian victory is achieved."
