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Palestinian Authority bans Al Jazeera in West Bank over terror crackdown coverage. Einav Halabi|12.23.24 The Fatah movement on Monday barred the Qatari Al Jazeera television network from operating in the West Bank, citing its coverage of Palestinian Authority security forces’ actions in Jenin refugee camp, according to Palestinian officials. The ban includes prohibiting the network’s crew from covering the funeral of a security officer killed in Jenin, where tensions between PA forces and local terrorist factions have escalated.

Negotiations fora prisoner swap-ceasefire deal with Israel are nearing conclusion, the Hamas-affiliated Quds network reported. According to the report, "the negotiations between Israel and the organization are now in their final stages." "A discussion is ongoing regarding the names and sentences of the Palestinian prisoners who will be freed as part of the deal," the report added. According to the sources, "the prisoners with heavier [sentences] will be exiled to Turkey and Iran, while the rest will be released to Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip." On Tuesday, a senior Palestinian Authority official gave an interview to the BBC and...

Hamas has conceded on two key Israeli demands in the negotiations over a hostage release and ceasefire deal, The Wall Street Journal reported. Shortly thereafter, Axios said that Israel’s Mossad Director David Barnea had met with Qatar's prime minister in Doha on Wednesday, citing two officials who said that Hamas appeared to be open to implement the first stage of a potential deal. For the first time, Hamas told mediators from Egypt and Qatar that it would agree to a deal that didn’t demand the immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops, instead allowing them to stay in the Gaza Strip during...

The Hamas terror group has sent Israel a list of the hostages to be freed in a proposed ceasefire-prisoner swap deal, as well as their medical conditions, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported Monday morning. A source involved in the negotiations told the newspaper that the negotiations are being held with teams from Egypt, Israel, and Hamas. "Both sides are serious about reaching an unprecedented deal, with Egypt, Qatar, and the US participating in the negotiations as mediators," the source said. According to the report, it is likely that the agreement will include four hostages who hold US citizenship, even though they do...

Meeting on the margins of the Doha Forum, in Qatar, Turkey, Russia, and Iran urged the Syrian opposition to heed the call to end the fighting and to preserve Syria as an integrated and united country.Amid reports that Russian diplomats are fleeing Damascus in the face of the lightning opposition advance...Earlier this year, Assad had refused to speak to Turkey so long as Turkish forces remained in Syria. This refusal led the President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to give the implicit green light to militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) last month to mount its stunningly successful attacks on Aleppo, and...

The Middle East shifts in advance of a Trump era. The Biden administration indicated that Qatar bowed to the US request to expel the Hamas from its country, but other US officials contradict that claim, saying that Qatar decided on its own to expel Hamas over frustrations in hostage negotiations with the US, Israel and Hamas. Whatever happened, now Hamas has apparently relocated to Turkey. “Hamas leadership reportedly relocates to Turkey amid Qatar’s ban,” by Sam Halpern, Jerusalem Post, November 17, 2024:Senior members of Hamas’s leadership outside of Gaza have been in Turkey in recent days, Israeli state broadcaster KAN...

Senior members of Hamas's abroad leadership left Qatar last week for Turkey, an Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel on Sunday, after Doha said it was walking away from efforts to mediate an end to the war in Gaza.The Arab diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity, downplayed the significance of the move for the terror group, stressing that Hamas's leadership abroad already spends much of its time in Turkey when they are not holding meetings in Qatar.The departure of Hamas’s senior politburo from Doha was first reported by Israel's Kan public broadcaster.

Iran and Qatar behind South Africa’s World Court case against Israel, report claims. Report alleges foreign financial and political support in 'genocide[sic]' case against Israel; ruling ANC, near bankruptcy, reportedly received major donation from foreign states after filing claim in December. A new report by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) alleges financial and political involvement by Iran and Qatar in South Africa’s December 2023 case at the International Criminal Court (ICC) accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.

Qatar has told the leaders of Hamas to leave the country where they have enjoyed a luxurious exile for many years, just days after President-elect Donald Trump won the U.S. election, according to reports in the Israeli media. Hamas, the Palestinian terror group, has been able to protect many of its leaders because they have taken refuge in Qatar and Turkey, both of whom are U.S. allies. Turkey is a member of NATO, while the Biden-Harris administration declared Qatar a major non-NATO ally, despite its ongoing support for Hamas and other terrorist organizations. The Biden-Harris administration had pressured Qatar to...

What will it take to shut it down? First, let’s be clear. The 92-10 vote in the Knesset in favor of banning UNRWA from operating inside Israel does not prevent UNRWA from working inside Gaza. UNRWA staff can still enter Gaza from Egypt, or from the Mediterranean.Second, this ban does not go into effect for three months. During that time, it should be possible to find alternative agencies to take over UNRWA’s role in distributing humanitarian aid, providing medical personnel, and staffing schools where the teaching is not a vehicle for pro-Hamas propaganda that poisons the minds of young Gazans.Third,...

Qatar has reportedly informed Hamas leaders they are “not welcome” in the country, according to sources cited by Israeli broadcaster KAN on Friday. The move follows recent pressure from the United States, KAN reported, and comes just days after Donald Trump became the president-elect, ushering a new era of foreign policy into the White House. For years, Qatar hosted members of Hamas leadership, ostensibly to support dialogue during negotiations, including those around hostage situations. However, three sources familiar with the recent discussions revealed that Qatar’s stance has shifted, telling Hamas leaders to leave the country. Egyptian sources also told Lebanese...

The US demanded Qatar shutter Hamas’ political office in Doha after the terror group’s latest rejection of a deal that would have freed the Israeli hostages, and the Gulf state has agreed, an official said Friday. “After rejecting repeated proposals to release hostages, its leaders should no longer be welcome in the capitals of any American partner,” a senior Harris-Biden administration official said, according to Reuters. “We made that clear to Qatar following Hamas’s rejection weeks ago of another hostage release proposal,” the official added. The oil-rich Gulf state has been hosting the Palestinian terror group’s political leaders since 2012...

The entry into Jabaliya [Jabalia] is intended to prevent Hamas from recovering and rebuilding its power • One of the main targets: a hospital where the terrorist organization established a headquarters, concentrated hundreds of terrorists and IDF • The operation there has ended, but the fighting in the area is expected to continue for several weeks • 16 martyrs have fallen in the past month in the north the strip. Nir Dvori|N12| Posted 30/10/24 14:55 About a month has passed since the IDF entered Jabaliya. Division 162 forces continue to operate in the area, and only in the last day...

Long-serving deputy secretary-general of the terror group is approved by Hezbollah's religious council after the designated successor of Hasan Nasrallah, Hashem Safieddine is also killed in a targeted strike. Yoav Gallant:The appointment is temporary. The countdown has begun. https://x.com/yoavgallant/status/1851245367720919450

UN Watch report exposes Francesca Albanese's antisemitism, support for terrorism, and financial misconduct. A report by United Nations Watch on Wednesday is urging democratic nations to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, accusing her of promoting antisemitism, supporting terrorism, and spreading misinformation. Titled "Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Why Democracies Should Sanction UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese," the report was presented to the UN Human Rights Council on October 23, 2024. The report calls for Albanese's removal, citing a series of statements and actions that violate UN impartiality standards and promote hatred against Israel and...

Ambulance driver admits to Hamas's use of Gaza hospital 'We've had enough': After IDF operation, Gazan ambulance driver says Hamas embeds in hospitals. Following operations, troops arrested some 100 terrorists, including some who had tried to flee during the evacuation of civilians from the area. By , .

Hamas-Al-Jazeera-Qatar ties exposed in new IDF documents, online eulogies. New documents formulated by Hamas reveal the depth of Al Jazeera's cooperation with the terrorist group. Following the exposure of the involvement of six Al Jazeera correspondents who took part in Hamas’s terrorist activities, the IDF spokesperson in Arabic, Col. Avichay Adraee, revealed a series of documents that point to the depth of the close cooperation between Hamas and the Qatari channel, including Hamas’s directive to prevent any mention of criticism of the terrorist organization, through covering up failed rocket launches, and even the establishment of a secure communication line between...

Dozens of speakers at the Doha event are anti-Israel advocatesThe head of an Israel-designated terrorist organization, a former Hamas official, and Hamas apologists are among the dozens of anti-Israel advocates scheduled to speak at a Georgetown University conference in Qatar running Friday through Sunday, a Washington Free Beacon review has found.The speakers at the "Reimagining Palestine" event will discuss the "ideological shifts" of Zionism, "art as resistance," and "anti-colonial struggles," and will engage in "dialogue that challenges the status quo," according to the Doha event’s website. Among the nearly 70 scholars is Shawan Jabarin, a former senior member of the...

Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani urged Iran to hold off on an attack on Israel to avoid harming the ongoing Doha hostage talks in a phone call with Iran's leadership, The Washington Post reported on Friday citing two diplomats familiar with a phone call had between the two leaders. Iran vowed to attack Israel following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last month. Despite anticipation in Israel and around the world, the attack has yet to come. Al Thani warned Iran that an attack may further risk the current Gaza ceasefire discussions, which Hamas...

Hamas announced on Sunday that it refuses to send representatives to the next round of negotiations which are expected to begin on August 15th. The discussions were set to begin on Thursday seemingly in Doha, Qatar. According to Hamas, "We call on the mediators to present a plan to implement what we agreed to on July 2nd, instead of holding new negotiations." The organization further stated: "Additional rounds of talks or new offers will only provide cover for the occupation's aggression and will give it time to win the war of destruction." .....