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October 7, 2025 2:22 PM

Two Years On: How the October 7 Attack Redefined West Asia

Today marks two years since Hamas carried out its unprecedented assault on Israel , a strike that killed around 1,200 people and triggered a conflict that has since reshaped the geopolitics of West Asia. The anniversary coincides with ongoing negotiations in Egypt over President Donald Trump’s ceasefire initiative, which offers a faint yet significant prospect of ending a war that has taken tens of thousands of lives. In the early hours of October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a highly coordinate...

October 7, 2025 1:08 PM

Tens of thousands killed, widespread destruction as Gaza war rages on

Israel's offensive in Gaza, launched in response to the Palestinian militant group Hamas's attack on southern Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and laid waste to swathes of territory. Below is a summary of the extent of the death and damage during the Gaza war, with much of the data drawn from reports released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). DEATHS IN GAZA Since October 7, 2023, more than 67,0...

October 7, 2025 9:52 AM

Thunberg greeted by cheering crowd in Athens after Israel expels flotilla activists

Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg arrived in Greece to a cheering pro-Palestinian crowd on Monday after she and hundreds of other activists captured by Israel on the high seas were deported following an attempt to bring aid to Gaza. Israel said it expelled 71 activists on Monday including Thunberg, bringing the total deported over so far to 341, out of 479 people it detained when it captured the flotilla attempting to break its naval blockade of Gaza. The Greek Foreign Ministry said 161 of the...

October 7, 2025 10:38 AM

Gaza talks turn to key sticking points between Israel, Hamas

Delegations from Israel and Hamas held their first day of indirect negotiations in Egypt on Monday on U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to halt the war in Gaza, wrestling with contentious issues such as demands that Israel withdraw and Hamas disarm. Israel and Hamas have both endorsed the overall principles behind Trump’s plan, under which fighting would cease, hostages go free and aid pour into Gaza. The plan also has the backing of Arab and Western states. Trump has called...

October 6, 2025 4:40 PM

Negotiators gather for Gaza talks, mediators caution deal may not be swift

Hamas officials were in Egypt on Monday ahead of talks with Israel that the U.S. hopes will bring a halt to war in Gaza and release of hostages despite contentious issues like disarmament of the Palestinian militant group under Donald Trump's plan. Israeli negotiators were also due to travel to Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh later in the day for talks about freeing hostages, part of the U.S. president's 20-point blueprint for ending the two-year-old conflict. The Israeli delegation ...

October 6, 2025 11:57 AM

Hamas readies for Gaza talks that US hopes will halt war, free hostages

Hamas officials arrived in Egypt on Sunday ahead of talks with Israel that the U.S. hopes will lead to a halt in fighting and the freeing of hostages in Gaza, with Washington's top diplomat saying the next days are critical. Israeli negotiators led by Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer were to travel to Egypt on Monday for negotiations in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh about the release of hostages, part of U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to end the nearly two-year Gaza war. "We w...

October 4, 2025 2:33 PM

Israel strikes Gaza after Trump calls for end to bombardment

Israel struck Gaza on Saturday, local authorities said, after U.S. President Donald Trump had called for a halt to the bombing and said Hamas is ready for peace, agreeing to release hostages and accepting some other terms in a U.S. plan to end the war. Israeli fire killed six people across Gaza Strip, local authorities said. One strike killed four people in a house in Gaza City while another killed two others in Khan Younis in the south, medical workers and local authorities said. Israeli Prim...

October 3, 2025 10:27 PM

Trump gives Hamas until Sunday night to reach Gaza deal or ‘all HELL’ will break out

U.S. President Donald Trump gave Palestinian Hamas militants until Sunday evening to accept his proposal to end the nearly two-year-old war with U.S. ally Israel in the Gaza Strip or "all HELL" would break out. "An agreement must be reached with Hamas by Sunday Evening at SIX (6) P.M., Washington, D.C. time," Trump posted on social media on Friday. "Every Country has signed on! If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas...

October 2, 2025 10:20 AM

Israel stops 13 Gaza aid boats, organisers say, sparking international criticism

Israeli forces have stopped 13 boats carrying foreign activists and aid bound for Gaza, but 30 boats are continuing to sail towards the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave, flotilla organisers said on Thursday. A video from the Israeli foreign ministry verified by Reuters showed the most prominent of the flotilla's passengers, Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, sitting on a deck surrounded by soldiers. "Several vessels of the Hamas-Sumud flotilla have been safely stopped and their passenge...

September 30, 2025 10:55 PM

Trump says Hamas has three or four days to respond to Gaza plan

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Hamas militants have about three or four days to respond to his Gaza peace plan proposal or face the consequences. Trump told reporters as he departed the White House that Israeli and Arab leaders had accepted the plan and "we're just waiting for Hamas". He said Hamas has about "three or four days" to respond. "Hamas is either going to be doing it or not, and if it's not, it's going to be a very sad end," he said. Asked if there was room for n...