Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen on Tuesday praised US President Donald Trump's plan to relocate Palestinians from Gaza. In the interview with Channel 14, Cohen claimed that Trump’s plan was “based on sound logic.”

Crowds of Palestinians fill Gaza’s main coastal road as they stream north. With their belongings on their backs, they smile, hug and sing, overjoyed at the prospect of returning home after more than a year of war.

The White House on Tuesday defended the Trump administration's decision to freeze all loans and grants disbursed by the federal government, a move which has caused confusion about the fate of trillions of dollars in funding.

Israel lifted its closure of the north for the first time since the early weeks of the 15-month war with Hamas in accordance with a fragile ceasefire.

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman discussed developments in the Gaza Strip, Syria and the Russia-Ukraine crisis with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday.

If this ceasefire is to last, the underlying cause of the violence must be addressed and Palestinians must be free to govern themselves without outside interference.

Several prisoners released by Israel arrived in the Gaza Strip, where they were welcomed and cheered by hundreds of people. Camera: Stringer. Resources Of The Arrival Of Palestinian Prisoners Released To The Gaza Strip.

A hundred Palestinian prisoners released by Israel on Saturday in the West Bank arrived in several buses to a Ramallah centre set up to receive them, where hundreds of people and family members were waiting to carry them on their shoulders as they got out of the vehicles.

Russia's UN Ambassador said the US ignored its calls for a meeting on Gazan children in December. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Suspending funding "could have life or death consequences" for children and families around the world, warned the head of Oxfam America.

HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani received Saturday a phone call from Minister of Foreign Affairs of

As the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal comes into effect, we speak with Jotam Confino to hear why he thinks the deal is unlikely to hold and why Israelis are angry with Netanyahu’s government...