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Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened on Monday to unleash “the gates of hell” on the Gaza Strip if the Palestinian group Hamas fails to release Israeli hostages, Anadolu reports.

“If Hamas does not release the hostages, the gates of hell will open in Gaza,” Katz said in a ceremony marking the demolitions of buildings damaged in Israeli missile strikes last month in the city of Holon near Tel Aviv.

“This is a complex war, it goes beyond…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday evening that a minimum of aid must be allowed into the Gaza Strip to achieve war goals.

The Israeli prime minister made the remarks during a visit to Ramon Air Base, accompanied by Defence Minister Yisrael Katz and Air Force Commander Tomer Bar, according to a statement issued by his office.

“We will eliminate Hamas. To achieve this goal, as well as the release of our hostages, we are advancing in the…

Donald Trump said a ceasefire in Gaza was “possible”, and stepped up warnings to Russia, as he met UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at one of the US president’s Scottish golf resorts on Monday.

Trump made the comments as he greeted Starmer and his wife Victoria at Turnberry, south of Glasgow, where he has spent two days playing golf.

The US leader said he would “reduce” a 50-day ultimatum that he has set Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine, as he took questions from…

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will press Donald Trump on ending “the unspeakable suffering” in Gaza, and also talk trade, when they meet Monday at the US president’s golf resort in Scotland, Downing Street said.

The talks will come a day after the US and the European Union reached a landmark deal to end a transatlantic standoff over tariffs and avert a full-blown trade war.

Starmer is expected to push Trump on urging a revival of stalled ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas as a hunger…

At least 14 more Palestinians, including two children, died of starvation in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours as famine induced by Israel’s months-long siege continues to worsen, the Health Ministry said on Monday, Anadolu reports.

“Hospitals recorded 14 new deaths in the past 24 hours due to famine and malnutrition, including two children who died of hunger,” the ministry said in a statement.

The new fatalities brought the death toll from starvation in…

A senior official in the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, Ali Baraka, said Sunday that Israel’s allegations of committing to a “humanitarian truce” in Gaza aims to deceive the international public opinion while it continues to commit massacres against the Palestinians in the besieged enclave, Quds Press reported. 

In a statement, Baraka explained that the Israeli occupation soldiers have killed and wounded many hungry Palestinians on Sunday while…