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Hamas and Israel have agreed to a four-day truce in Gaza during which Hamas will release 50 women and children held as hostages in exchange for the release of 150 Palestinian women and children held in Israeli jails, the Palestinian group said in a statement on Wednesday. The deal, mediated by Qatar and Egypt, will allow hundreds of humanitarian, medical ...

Israeli air raids have killed at least 31 people, including children, in northern, central, and southern Gaza, Palestinian officials and media said, as the besieged territory endures its 44th day of bombardment. At least 31 people were killed in Israeli attacks on the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in central Gaza, the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-governed enclave said ...

Israeli air raids have killed at least 50 people at the al-Fakhoora School, run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. At least 50 people were killed in the bombing, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Saturday, reports Al Jazeera. Many hundreds of people are believed to have taken shelter ...

The Israeli military said it was carrying out a raid on Wednesday against Hamas militants in Al Shifa Hospital, having urged them to surrender with thousands of Palestinian civilians still sheltering inside Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital. Dr Munir al-Bursh, director-general of the Gaza health ministry, told Al Jazeera television that Israeli forces had raided the western side of the medical ...

Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries called on Saturday for an immediate end to military operations in Gaza, rejecting Israel’s justification of its actions against Palestinians as self-defence. The extraordinary joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh urged the International Criminal Court to investigate “war crimes and crimes against humanity that Israel is committing” in the Palestinian territories, according to a final ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah : A conference held in the European Parliament, co-hosted by MEP Tomas Zdechovsky and Syed Mozammel Ali from Study Circle London, highlighted the remarkable journey of Bangladesh and its role as the European Union’s main trading partner. The event focused on various aspects, including Bangladesh’s economic growth, trade relations with the EU, the clothing industry’s pivotal role, ...

Malaysia’s leader Anwar Ibrahim has said his nation will maintain ties with Hamas and will “not punish” the group. Malaysians should “unanimously back” the Palestinian cause, the prime minister told parliament on Tuesday. Mr Anwar was responding to a proposal by US lawmakers to sanction Hamas’s foreign supporters. Analysts say this is also politically expedient in a country where support ...

More than 30 people were killed in an Israeli bombing on a refugee camp in central Gaza late Saturday, the Hamas-run health ministry there said, amid ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas militants. “More than 30 (dead) arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the massacre committed by the occupation in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip,” ...

Pakistan will hold delayed national elections on February 8 as the country grapples with overlapping political, economic and security crises. “It was unanimously decided that the election will be held on Thursday, February 8,” the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said in a statement after its members met with President Arif Alvi, reports Al Jazeera. A caretaker government has been ...

Militant group Boko Haram has killed 20 mourners returning from the burial of victims of an earlier attack in north-eastern Nigeria, police said. The mourners died after their vehicle drove over an explosive device planted by the insurgents in Yobe state. On Monday, the militants shot dead 17 people in a raid on Gurokayeya village, reports AP news agency. Boko ...