Jawa Ahmad, Jeremy Scahill - Drop Site News
April 25, 2025
Drop Site obtained the draft of a deal currently being pushed by the U.S., Egypt, and Qatar. Hamas insists it will not capitulate to Netanyahu’s new demands.
Julia Frankel - AP News
April 24, 2025
After the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023 ignited the devastating war in Gaza, a deadly new reality also took hold for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
Hamza Salha, Mohnad Qeshta, Sharif Abdel Kouddous - Drop Site News
Israel has deployed SkyStriker drones manufactured by Elbit Systems in several attacks in Gaza over the past week, killing at least 30 Palestinians sheltering in tents, including 14 children
Hind Hassan - Drop Site News
The families of Lebanese civilians killed with American “bunker busters” want to hold both Israel and the U.S. accountable
Stav Levaton - Times of Israel
Defense Minister Israel Katz has approved the entry of 600 Syrian Druze clerics into Israel tomorrow to celebrate the holiday of Ziyara at the tomb of Nabi Shuaib in the Lower Galilee, the Walla news site reports.
Jacob Magid - Times of Israel
Asked whether he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, US President Donald Trump responds, “Maybe for the Abraham Accords.”
Yaniv Kubovich - Haaretz
April 23, 2025
IDF materials show that soldiers reloaded their magazines multiple times while shooting at 12 aid workers who tried to identify themselves
Prem Thakker - Zeteo
The Palestinian Columbia student’s legal team says Mahdawi signed a pledge to defend the Constitution, and then ICE showed up.
Nader Hashemi - New Lines Magazine
A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk
Nurit Yohanan - Times of Israel
The Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reports that Hamas is expected to propose a new ceasefire framework for Gaza as its representatives arrive in Cairo.
Barak Ravid - Axios
April 22, 2025
President Trump spoke on Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal and the nuclear talks with Iran, according to Israeli and U.S. officials.
Times of Israel
Egypt and Qatar, the mediators in the Israel-Hamas negotiations for a ceasefire and hostage deal, have made a new proposal for a yearslong truce and full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza alongside a hostages-for-prisoners swap
The New Arab
The individuals were identified as Khaled Khaled, the head of the PIJ movement and Abu Ali Yasser, the head of the group’s organising committee in Syria.
Ibrahim Hamidi - Al Majalla
Demands include a public ban on any Palestinian political activity, proscribing Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation, and allowing unilateral US military action in Syria
Nir Hasson - Haaretz
April 21, 2025
Since January, the IDF has stopped marking safe areas on maps and has struck a zone once considered safe more than 20 times in the past month.
An Israeli police document states that demonstrators cannot display signs or posters that contain the word ‘genocide’ or display ‘hostage signs’.
Anil Oza - STAT
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Members of Gaza’s tiny Christian community say they are “heartbroken” over the death of Pope Francis, who campaigned for peace for the devastated enclave and spoke to them on the phone almost every evening throughout the war.
Joshua McElwee - USA Today
In the Easter message, the pontiff said the situation in Gaza was "dramatic and deplorable."
Maayan Lubell - Reuters
The head of Israel's domestic intelligence service said on Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bid to sack him followed his refusal to fulfil requests that included spying on Israeli protesters and disrupting the leader's corruption trial.
Jeremy Sharon - Times of Israel
April 20, 2025
PM insists fighting won’t end until terror group destroyed, derides ‘experts’ who say he could fool Hamas with fake promise to end war, get captives back, and then resume fighting
Haid Haid - Al Majalla
By building rival power centres, systematically isolating and weakening the brigade, then applying pressure at the right moment, al-Sharaa rid himself of a prominent rival in Syria's south.
April 19, 2025
Third round of negotiations to be held in Oman next week; Iranian FM says he and Trump’s envoy Witkoff ‘managed to reach a better understanding on a series of principles and goal’
Deborah Danan - Times of Israel
Activist says some 30 families living at temporary sites, but 800 have signed up to move to 6 potential settlements in Strip; group holds Passover seder in border area in symbolic call
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Hamas rejected over the weekend a proposal for the return of half of the remaining living hostages and many of the slain hostages it is holding in Gaza
Dana Karni, Oren Liebermann - Yahoo News
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue the war in Gaza in the face of growing opposition to Israel’s ongoing military campaign.
Dr. Hanan Balkhy, the head of the World Health Organization’s eastern Mediterranean office, urges the new US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, to push Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to allow medicines and other aid into the Strip.
A second round of U.S.-Iran nuclear talks wrapped up in Rome after four hours on Saturday, with President Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi leading the delegations.
Khadeejah Khan - Mondoweiss
As students protesting the Gaza genocide encounter violent repression, the push to integrate Arab American Studies and Palestine into Ethnic Studies faces censorship and political attacks as well.
Refaat Ibrahim - Al Jazeera
For the first time in many years, education in Gaza is only accessible to the well-to-do.
Al Jazeera
April 18, 2025
Palestinian Christians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank are holding temperate gatherings leading up to Easter.
Tania Krämer - DW
In recent weeks, thousands of Israeli reservists and security forces retirees have signed petitions calling on the government to prioritize the release of hostages over the fight against Hamas.
