“They don’t care about the hostages. It’s about continuing the genocide

As Donald Trump tries to take credit for a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel continues to kill Palestinians. And as both Israeli and Palestinian captives are released, the glaring double standards in coverage lay bare how this genocide was allowed to go on for so long.

The Listening Post Hamas and the media

Another tortured round of Gaza ceasefire negotiations, another set of headlines laying the blame solely on Hamas.

Throughout the various ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas, western news outlets have repeatedly blamed their failure on Hamas. This week, we hear a perspective that rarely features in the coverage – the group’s own – on the negotiations and the media narratives that surround them.

Israel: "Gaza will be entirely destroyed"

As Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza intensifies, its allies begin to speak up.

The images coming out of Gaza are apocalyptic, depicting the latest – and perhaps final – chapter in a genocide. Under an operation called Gideon’s Chariots, the Israeli military is forcing Palestinians into tiny corners of the besieged enclave. Its next phase: another full-scale invasion aimed at taking complete control of the territory.

Inside an Unrwa warehouse full of aid blocked from Gaza

 

While aid has started to trickle into Gaza, the United Nations is calling for a ‘meaningful’ amount to be allowed in to meet the needs of 2.1 million people in the Palestinian territory. Israel imposed an 11-week blockade in early March, saying Hamas was seizing deliveries for fighters – a charge the group denies. While the blockade has been eased due to growing international pressure, humanitarian agencies say aid has yet to reach civilians

‘Hell Plan’: Israel’s scheme for Gaza

 

Seven weeks into the Gaza ceasefire deal, Israel openly resumes its war crimes in Gaza – blocking humanitarian aid – with the tacit support of the international mainstream media.

A ceasefire agreement at last – but will it hold?

Understanding the details of the ceasefire deal and why so much remains in the balance.

The long-awaited ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas brings to a halt more than 15 months of genocidal war on the occupied Gaza Strip. Its timing – on the eve of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration – also raises uncomfortable questions about the Biden administration’s role in earlier peace talks.

Here’s why the Gaza war is ‘consistent with genocide’, according to UN body

The UN has released a report on the first nine months of Israel’s war on Gaza where it accuses Israel of genocide by ‘using starvation as a method of war and inflicting collective punishment on the Palestinian population’.

Israel shells Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza

Israeli Forces have repeatedly bombed the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza over the past few hours. Israeli air strikes have killed at least 20 people there, including two children and a journalist. More than thirty people were injured.

Hamas will not directly participate in Cairo cease-fire talks

US, Egypt, Qatar hopeful latest Israel-Hamas cease-fire proposal will work

Egypt, Qatar, and the US have released a joint statement after two days of talks in Doha on the Gaza war. They are backing what they call a "bridging proposal." They hope the new draft will bring Hamas and Israel closer to a cease-fire deal. Hamas — considered a terrorist organization by several countries, and not a participant in the negotiations — is accusing Israel of negotiating in bad faith. The talks are aimed at ending the 10-month-long war, securing the release of Israeli hostages, and averting a wider regional conflagration.

War in Gaza, Israel and three assassinations

Three high-profile assassinations and fear of a regional war in the Middle East.

Meenakshi Ravi and Richard Gizbert discuss Israel’s recent assassinations of a Hezbollah military commander and a Hamas political leader, and the political reverberations these developments have had across the Middle East. They also look into the targeting and killing of two Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza – and the accusations made by the Israeli authorities.

Will Iran's response to Haniyeh's killing be rational or driven by emotion

ays that Israel will pay for the assassination of Hamas's top political leader Ismail Haniyeh. He was killed in an airstrike in Tehran. On Thursday, thousands gathered in the Iranian capital for a funeral honoring Haniyeh. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei spoke at the ceremony.

How much could Israel's military strategy backfire in the long run?

Two weeks of intensified bombardment have claimed the lives of hundreds of Palestinians as Israel says it is targeting leading members of Hamas it believes are responsible for the October 7 terror attacks.

Rafah: Israel claims ‘precision munitions’ used against ‘legitimate’ Hamas targets

The health ministry in Gaza says at least 45 people have been killed and dozens more injured in an Israeli airstrike on Rafah. The Hamas-run ministry says the strike hit an area where thousands of displaced civilians are sheltering. Israel confirmed its military did carry out an attack on Rafah, and says the strike killed two Hamas commanders.

Israeli protesters block aid trucks to Gaza, citing concerns over support for Hamas

Israeli protesters have blocked a road near the desert town of Mitzpe Ramon, in southern Israel - as they protested against the delivery of aid trucks into the Gaza Strip. Protesters there have been holding a sit-in and they've scattered rocks across the road to stop vehicles, including aid trucks waiting to enter Gaza.

Hamas says it has accepted proposal regarding cease-fire agreement

No ceasefire deal reached in Gaza, Israeli official says

Mohammed Salem, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ari Rabinovitch

An Israeli official said on Monday no ceasefire had been agreed in Gaza, after Hamas said it had accepted a proposal from Egyptian and Qatari mediators.

The Israeli official said the proposal that Hamas had accepted was a "softened" version of an Egyptian proposal, which included "far-reaching" conclusions that Israel could not accept.

"This would appear to be a ruse intended to make Israel look like the side refusing a deal," said the Israeli official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

From ABC News

Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement, said in a statement the group has called the prime minister of Qatar and Egyptian minister of intelligence "and informed them of the Hamas movement's approval of their proposal regarding the ceasefire agreement."

There were no further details about conditions of the cease-fire agreement.

Washington Post

Hamas informed Arab mediators that it would approve a Qatari-Egyptian cease-fire proposal, Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’s political bureau, said in a statement Monday. There has been no response yet from Israel, which earlier in the day ordered about 100,000 civilians in parts of Rafah to evacuate “immediately” to a humanitarian zone. In a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier Monday, President Biden reiterated his opposition to a ground invasion of Rafah and provided an update on negotiations in Doha, according to a White House readout of the conversation.

Cease-fire talks continue amid warnings on internally displaced Palestinians

A Hamas delegation is in Cairo for more talks with US, Egyptian, and Qatari mediators on a cease-fire in Gaza. Egyptian state media has said that significant progress is being made. Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by Germany, the US, and several other countries.

Blinken: ‘An extraordinarily generous proposal on the part of Israel’

srael and Hamas have been at war for seven months, with only about a week's pause last November. Now, something more substantial appears to be in the works.

A look at Israel's multilayered air-defence system • FRANCE 24 English

An incoming attack by more than 300 Iranian drones and ballistic missiles was the latest challenge to Israel’s air defence system, which already has been working overtime to cope with incoming rocket, drone and missile attacks throughout the six-month war against Hamas. Israel's multilayered air-defence system includes the Arrow, David's Sling, Patriot, Iron Dome and Iron Beam.

De-escalation or forever war? After Israel's drawdown from southern Gaza

After six months, proof that Israel’s longest war since the 1980s is winding down…or is the weekend announcement of troops withdrawing from southern Gaza the calm before a whole new storm?