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Middle East Eye
2 days ago
- Politics
- Middle East Eye
Netanyahu says all Israeli conditions must be met for ceasefire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Saturday that he would only agree to a ceasefire deal with the condition that all captives are released together according to Tel Aviv's "conditions for ending the war." In a statement by his office, Netanyahu reiterated the conditions, including "the disarmament of Hamas, demilitarisation of Gaza, Israeli control of the territory, and the establishment of non-Hamas and non-Palestinian Authority governance." The statement comes amid reports that the mediators, Qatar, Egypt, and the United States, have renewed pressure on Israel for a pause in the war.
New York Post
2 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Netanyahu says Gaza City will be sacked unless Hamas agrees to all of Israel's demands
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured Israelis Saturday night that he only plans to halt the take over Gaza City if Hamas agrees to all of the Jewish state's demands for ending the war — after the terror group seemed open to a partial cease-fire for the first time. 'We will agree to a deal on the condition that all the hostages are released in a single phase and in accordance with our terms for ending the war,' read the statement from Netanyahu's office. 7 Netanyahu said Israel is not interested in a partial deal. Ronen Zvulun/POOL/EPA/Shutterstock Those terms include the disarming of Hamas soldiers, the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip, Israeli control of the Gaza perimeter, and the installation of non-Hamas and non-Palestinian Authority governance that will live in peace with the Jewish state, according to the prime minister. Netanyahu's comments come after reports that the terror group had backtracked on its position and sent a message to mediators in Cairo this week expressing readiness to agree on a 'partial deal' for the first time. 7 Hamas had previously said it was only willing to accept a comprehensive peace deal. REUTERS Previously, Hamas leaders had said they were only willing to settle for a full cease-fire deal, leading to the collapse of hostage talks in Qatar last month. The 'partial deal' reportedly involves the release of 10 living hostages, held in Hamas captivity for nearly 700 days, and 18 dead ones in exchange for a 60-day ceasefire and the release of Palestinian prisoners — a proposal that mirrors the US-backed Qatari deal first floated in May that the terror group balked at. There are 50 Israeli hostages still in Hamas captivity, about 20 of whom are believed to be alive. Hamas' about face was first reported by Israeli television Friday evening, citing a classified document it had received from Netanyahu. 7 People rallied on the eve of a national strike in Israel. AFP via Getty Images Meanwhile, thousands of protestors rallied in Tel Aviv Saturday night to put pressure on the Israeli government to agree to a hostage deal. The showing comes ahead of a planned nationwide strike Sunday meant to protest the expansion of the war in Gaza. Einav Zangauker, mother of Hamas-held captive Matan Zangauker, said the strike was 'only the beginning.' 'We'll stop the country tomorrow for our lives here, for our children, for the state of Israel,' she told the crowd at the rally, the Times of Israel reported. 'We can't take any more.' 7 Thousands rallied in Tel Aviv calling for the release of the hostages and an end to the war. AP 'We've stopped waiting for Netanyahu to stop the war when it's convenient for him politically,' she added. 'We demand quiet, security, a future, and the end of the war.' 7 Hamas has expressed willingness for a partial cease-fire deal in Gaza for the first time this week. Meanwhile, fighting ramped up north of Tel Aviv as Israeli fighter jets struck a Hezbollah facility and a tunnel Friday belonging to the terror group in southern Lebanon, the Israeli Defense Forces reported. The IDF said the Hezbollah facility was a violation of the Israel-Lebanon cease-fire, which was ironed out in October 2024. 'We will not budge from our policy of maximum enforcement and will not allow threats to arise against the residents of the north and all citizens of Israel,' Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement. 7 Israeli fighter jets struck a Hezbollah facility and a tunnel in Lebannon Friday. AFP via Getty Images Last week, the Lebanese government approved a US-backed roadmap to disarm the Iran-linked terror group, infuriating Hezbollah's leader, Naim Qassem, who threatened there would be 'no life in Lebanon' should its weapons be taken by force.
The Sun
26-06-2025
- Politics
- The Sun
Palestinians reject Israeli claims of Hamas looting Gaza aid
GAZA CITY: A committee representing influential families in Gaza on Thursday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's accusation that some aid entering the war-torn Palestinian territory was being looted by Hamas. After Israel imposed a more than two-month blockade on Gaza, aid began being allowed in at a trickle in late May. Rights groups say Gaza and its population of more than two million face famine-like conditions due to Israeli restrictions, with chaotic scenes and near-daily deaths marring aid distribution. In a joint statement with Defence Minister Israel Katz published late Wednesday, Netanyahu said there was 'information received today indicating that Hamas is once again taking control of humanitarian aid entering the northern Gaza Strip and stealing it from civilians'. He announced that he had instructed the military to draft a plan 'to prevent Hamas from seizing the aid.' A statement from Gaza's higher committee for tribal affairs -- a non-Hamas affiliated committee created during the war -- on Thursday rejected the claim that Hamas was stealing aid. 'Gaza's tribal leaders affirmed that all aid is fully secured under their direct supervision and is being distributed exclusively through international agencies,' the committee representing influential families said. 'The securing of aid has been carried out purely through tribal efforts,' it added. The statement rejected Netanyahu's comments as 'false claims' and called for a United Nations delegation to determine if aid was being correctly dispatched in Gaza. - Trickle of aid - AFP footage from Wednesday showed a truck convoy led by a UN vehicle carrying aid into northern Gaza after entering through the Zikim gate, south of the Israeli city of Ashkelon. Masked and armed young men could be seen riding atop the large aid bundles on the five trucks. The men told AFP they were protecting the convoy from being looted before reaching its final destination. Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir shared a video on Telegram on Thursday appearing to show masked, armed men standing on top of aid trucks. 'Today, what was known all along is becoming clear: Hamas is taking control of the food and goods,' the caption said, calling on Netanyahu to halt the entry of aid into Gaza. AFP could not independently verify whether the video shared by Ben Gvir showed a truck after being looted by Hamas or being protected from theft by locals. Israel began allowing a trickle of aid into Gaza at the end of May, much of it going through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and bypassing the UN-led distribution mechanism. An officially private effort with opaque funding, GHF's operations have been marred by chaotic scenes, deaths and neutrality concerns, with the UN and major aid groups refusing to work with it. The GHF has denied responsibility for deaths near its aid points.
New Straits Times
26-06-2025
- Politics
- New Straits Times
Palestinians reject Israeli claims of Hamas looting Gaza aid
GAZA CITY: A committee representing influential families in Gaza today rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's accusation that some aid entering the war-torn Palestinian territory was being looted by Hamas. After Israel imposed a more than two-month blockade on Gaza, aid began being allowed in at a trickle in late May. Rights groups say Gaza and its population of more than two million face famine-like conditions due to Israeli restrictions, with chaotic scenes and near-daily deaths marring aid distribution. In a joint statement with Defence Minister Israel Katz published late on Wednesday, Netanyahu said there was "information received today indicating that Hamas is once again taking control of humanitarian aid entering the northern Gaza Strip and stealing it from civilians." He announced that he had instructed the military to draft a plan "to prevent Hamas from seizing the aid." A statement from Gaza's higher committee for tribal affairs – a non-Hamas affiliated committee created during the war – today rejected the claim that Hamas was stealing aid. "Gaza's tribal leaders affirmed that all aid is fully secured under their direct supervision and is being distributed exclusively through international agencies," the committee representing influential families said. "The securing of aid has been carried out purely through tribal efforts," it added. The statement rejected Netanyahu's comments as "false claims" and called for a United Nations delegation to determine if aid was being correctly dispatched in Gaza. AFP footage from Wednesday showed a truck convoy led by a UN vehicle carrying aid into northern Gaza after entering through the Zikim gate, south of the Israeli city of Ashkelon. Masked and armed young men could be seen riding atop the large aid bundles on the five trucks. The men told AFP they were protecting the convoy from being looted before reaching its final destination. Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir shared a video on Telegram today appearing to show masked, armed men standing on top of aid trucks. "Today, what was known all along is becoming clear: Hamas is taking control of the food and goods," the caption said, calling on Netanyahu to halt the entry of aid into Gaza. AFP could not independently verify whether the video shared by Ben Gvir showed a truck after being looted by Hamas or being protected from theft by locals. Israel began allowing a trickle of aid into Gaza at the end of May, much of it going through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and bypassing the UN-led distribution mechanism. An officially private effort with opaque funding, GHF's operations have been marred by chaotic scenes, deaths and neutrality concerns, with the UN and major aid groups refusing to work with it.
New York Post
07-05-2025
- Business
- New York Post
Aid groups want to prolong war, dodging the tariff apocalypse and other commentary
Gaza watch: Aid Groups Want To Prolong War Humanitarian groups are refusing to 'have anything to do' with Israel's new 'plan to renew food aid to Gazans,' fumes Commentary's Seth Mandel. The United Nations whines that the plan 'is 'designed to reinforce control over life-sustaining items as a pressure tactic.' ' Translation: It lets Israel 'feed the Palestinian population without sustaining Hamas' — which executes non-Hamas Palestinians who try to access aid storage facilities. Fact is, funding from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, which goes to schools that 'serve as Hamas battle stations' and promote a 'medieval antisemitism' curriculum, is meant to prolong the conflict 'until Israel is destroyed and the Jews can be wiped out.' Aid groups' 'refusal to feed Gazans' unless 'they and Israel acquiesce' to Hamas rule 'serves the same purpose.' Conservative: Dodging the Tariff Apocalypse Advertisement 'The doom that was supposed to follow President Trump's tariff revolution,' notes The Wall Street Journal's Gerard Baker, 'has so far stubbornly failed to materialize,' Yes, it's ' much too soon to celebrate,' since 'actual tariffs imposed so far' are 'still relatively modest.' And 'anecdotal, real-time and small-set data from ports, transportation companies and retailers are unsettling — they speak of the hit to come from tariffs if they aren't negotiated down or away, especially the 145% duty on imports from China.' 'But there are opportunities too: more-secure supply chains' and 'a chance to nurture high-end domestic manufacturing and reduce our financial dependency on the rest of the world.' Trump's tariff plan is 'yielding not the apocalypse that was forecast, but a set of thorny economic challenges all the same.' Culture critic: Everyone's Cheating in College 'In January 2023, just two months after OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a survey of 1,000 college students found that nearly 90 percent of them had used the chatbot to help with homework assignments,' reports New York magazine's James D. Walsh. Collegians everywhere now 'are relying on AI to ease their way through every facet of their education,' as they can't 'resist a tool that makes every assignment easier with seemingly no consequences.' Professors fear AI's 'short-circuiting' the learning process, yet 'the ideal of college as a place of intellectual growth, where students engage with deep, profound ideas, was gone long before ChatGPT.' Heck, the 'speed and ease with which AI proved itself able to do college-level work simply exposed the rot at the core.' Advertisement From the right: Biden's Decline Was No Secret 'There is an inside story' and 'an outside story of Biden's decline,' argues the Washington Examiner's Byron York after new insider revelations about efforts to cover up the then- president's 'senescence.' Both the White House and its media allies denied 'that the president had a serious problem' though it was evident to the public. 'Another way to put it would be to say that the inside story was the effort to deny the outside story existed.' Clearly, White House aides 'went beyond simple denial' while supporters in the media 'attacked those who said Biden had a problem.' Only now are Americans 'learning more about the lengths to which the Biden team and its many allies in politics and media went to conceal the truth.' Ed desk: Crimson vs. Orange Advertisement 'The battle is on between Harvard, which did not want battle, and the Trump Administration that sought it,' warns Harvey C. Mansfield at The Harvard Crimson. 'A major concern among the Trump Administration is Harvard's lack of viewpoint diversity'; 'Harvard's one-sided fondness for the left' provoked the fight. 'Why should Harvard be independent? Because it helps society; it's worth the money!' Yet 'to depend on the courts to defend its independence is still dependence, and it offers only tenuous relief from a Trumpist siege.' And 'this gratuitous partisan attitude' will not 'preserve Harvard's independence' but endanger it. 'There is much to gain and little to lose in welcoming conservatives to share our company.' 'A wiser politics than devotion to a single party would have' served the school far better.' — Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
