Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Some Israeli families are finally able to mourn loved ones taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7, after the Israeli military recovered four bodies in Gaza. The news comes as trucks carrying badly-needed aid for the Gaza strip have rolled across a newly built U.S. pier, and into the besieged enclave for the first time.
Amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the body of an Israeli hostage, Ron Benjamin, was identified in Gaza on Saturday after it was recovered the previous day.On October 7, 2023, Hamas led the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history, killing some 1,200 people and taking roughly 250 hostages. Israel then subsequently launched its heaviest airstrikes against Gaza. About half of the hostages, meanwhile, were freed during a temporary ceasefire in November. Over 35,000 Palestinians in...
The Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico was shot several times after leaving a government meeting in what the interior minister described as a politically motivated attack. He has been in surgery in hospital for at least three and a half hours. His alleged attacker has been arrested. We have the latest from inside Slovakia and reaction across Europe. Also in the programme: the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken has insisted that Ukraine will prevail against the Russian invasion; and...
Its foreign minister tells the BBC it is concerned Israel will step up air strikes on Hezbollah.
(JNS) – Some five months after being freed from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, Elma Avraham is set to be released from hospital, Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center announced on Tuesday. Avraham, who celebrated her 85th birthday during her hospitalization, will go home on Wednesday following a press conference that will include statements by family […]
Prof. Anne Bayefsky, the director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and President of Human Rights Voices, told Arutz Sheva on Monday that reports that the UN Security Council finally held a session devoted to the issue of Israeli hostages last week are false. She clarified that a meeting took place […]
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that the body of one of the hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023, had been recovered during an operation in Gaza.
Nadav Popplewell, 51, abducted on 7 October, was reportedly wounded in Israeli strike more than a month agoHamas said in a statement on Saturday that the British-Israeli hostage Nadav Popplewell had died of wounds that he sustained in an Israeli airstrike more than a month ago.Popplewell, 51, was a captive taken from Nirim kibbutz and a video previously released by Hamas’s armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, showed him displaying visible signs of physical abuse. Continue reading
The U.S. president considered halting arms transfers in May 2024 in opposition to Israel’s attack on Rafah.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said the Israeli army would be prepared to make compromises in the event of an agreement on the release of hostages during the offensive in Rafah. "But if this option is cancelled, we will continue and deepen the operation," Gallant said, according to his office on Tuesday evening. He said that applied to the whole of the Gaza Strip and that the military pressure would lead to the destruction of Hamas. On Monday, Gallant ordered the army to advance to Rafah
May 19 (UPI) — Benny Gantz, a key member of Israel‘s three-member war cabinet, said Saturday he would quit the government if it does not adopt a new plan to end the war in Gaza. In a speech and in a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, Gantz spelled out a six-point plan for withdrawing from the Strip and […] The post Israeli minister threatens to quit if Netanyahu does not agree to new Gaza plan first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
Russia's President Putin removes his long-standing ally Sergei Shoigu as his defence minister. What does it mean for the war in Ukraine? Also on the programme: Israel marks memorial day for its fallen soldiers as the war in Gaza grinds on; and a prominent Tunisian lawyer has been arrested in the latest move of a presidential administration that has shown little tolerance for criticism. (Photo: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. Credit: MAKSIM...