Terms have been drawn up for a ceasefire in Gaza, but Israeli ministers have said they expect a ground invasion of Rafah to go ahead even if a deal is signed. Will the US bring an end to the onslaught ..read more

The US, on Thursday, said it is “very close” to reaching an agreement with Saudi Arabia on bilateral aspects of the wider Israel normalisation deal, Anadolu Agency reports. “We are very close to reaching an agreement on the bilateral pieces of a normalisation agreement … There are few details that we have to continue to work through, but we think we can reach agreement on those details in very short order,” State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller, told reporters. “There is still more work to be done on a separate piece of that, which is the proposal for a pathway to a Palestinian State,” h ..read more

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) resumed, Thursday, partial operations at the Al-Amal Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis, Anadolu Agency reports. The medical facility had been out of service for over a month following an Israeli army raid amid its ongoing war on the enclave. Medical staff at Al-Amal Hospital resumed work in some departments for the first time in over a month since the Israeli incursion of Khan Yunis, an Anadolu correspondent reported. “The baby Muhammad Luay Al-Raqab is the first birth case after the reopening of the maternity ward at the PRCS Al-Amal Hospital in ..read more

A total of 34 Republican senators demanded US President, Joe Biden, stop his potential plan to accept Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reports. “Your administration’s reported plan to accept Gazan refugees poses a national security risk to the United States,” senators led by Joni Ernst wrote in a letter to Biden. The letter came amid reports that the Biden administration is considering bringing some Palestinians from Gaza to the US as refugees. Senior officials across several federal US agencies have discussed the practicality of different options to resettle Palestini ..read more

A senior Palestinian doctor died in an Israeli prison after more than four months of detention, two Palestinian prisoner associations said on Thursday, blaming Israel for his death, Reuters reports. The associations said in a joint statement that Adnan Al-Bursh, head of Orthopaedics at Al Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility, had been detained by Israeli forces while temporarily working at Al-Awda Hospital in north Gaza. They called his death an “assassination” and said his body remained in Israeli custody. An Israeli military spokesperson said that the prison service had declared ..read more

The Swedish authorities have granted permission to yet another protest involving the burning of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, Anadolu Agency reports. Police in southern Sweden’s Malmo issued the permit for the controversial protest to take place at the city’s Gustavs Adolfs Torg public square Friday, national broadcaster, SVT Nyheter, said Thursday. The authorities, meanwhile, were yet to decide on two more applications for similar protests this week, one in central Malmo on Saturday and another in Rosengard on Sunday, according to the broadcaster. Quran-burning protests in Sweden have str ..read more

In his recent appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Mehdi Hasan questioned why the British broadcaster says Hamas' actions are genocidal but Israeli officials' calls to 'annihilate Gaza' are not. Israel's attack on Gaza, Hasan says, has not served to eliminate Hamas but has helped boost its popularity ..read more

Several Palestinians were killed and injured in an Israeli drone strike in Gaza City on Thursday, according to witnesses, Anadolu Agency reports. A drone fired missiles at a group of civilians in the Al-Nafaq area in Gaza City, witnesses said. The Health Ministry has yet to issue an exact figure of the casualties. Separately, at least four people were killed and several others injured in another drone attack targeting a group of people in the Bureij Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip. Israel has waged a deadly military offensive in the Gaza Strip since a 7 October cross-border attack by H ..read more

A police officer at the University of North Carolina was filmed spitting on a confiscated Palestinian flag while protecting the American flag on a university flag pole. Officers were called into the Chapel Hill campus of UNC to disrupt a Palestine solidarity camp and ongoing protests against the university's links with arms companies that supply Israel ..read more

Yemen’s Houthi group said, Thursday, that it had targeted 107 ships since the start of Israel’s deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reports. Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, the group’s leader, said that his fighters had carried out attacks against eight ships in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean and launched 33 ballistic missiles and winged drones this week. “Some 107 ships have been targeted since November, involving 606 ballistic missiles and drones,” he added in a televised speech. The Houthis have been targeting cargo ships in the Red Sea owned or operated by Israeli ..read more