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The Latest Breaking News from Hamas

What do we know about Israeli captives taken by Hamas and their release?

More than 200 people, including civilians and military personnel, are still being held in different locations in Gaza.

Al Jazeera

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Reason

Nearly two-thirds of Gaza’s health facilities 'forced to stop treatment'

The World Health Organisation says nearly two-thirds of Gaza’s health facilities have ceased functioning.

The National (Scotland)

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Birobidzhan: Israel-Hamas war sows discord in remote Jewish region of Russia

The furore over the Israel-Hamas war has reached all the way to Birobidzhan in Russia’s Far East, the world’s only autonomous Jewish territory outside Israel, after a local newspaper published its support for the Palestinian cause. FRANCE 24 examines the history of this remote region – which in many ways…

France 24

Woman’s release ‘gives hope’ to families of Hamas hostages

Ayelet Svatitzky, whose mother and brother were taken and whose brother was murdered, said it was a beginning.

The Independent UK

Israel’s war in Gaza revives Sabra and Shatila massacre memories in Lebanon

Survivors of the 1982 massacre by an Israel-backed militia in Lebanon say what Gaza is going through is even worse.

Al Jazeera

Qatar becomes a key intermediary in Israel-Hamas war as fate of hostages hangs in the balance

The gas-rich nation of Qatar has become a key intermediary over the fate of some 200 hostages held by Hamas militants after their unprecedented attack on Israel over two weeks ago

The Independent UK

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Markets Today: Stocks Climb on Lower Bond Yields and Positive Corporate Earnings

Morning Markets December E-Mini S&P 500 futures (ESZ2 3) are up +0.50%, and the Dec Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQZ2 3) are up +0.54%. Stock index futures this morning are moderately higher as a decline in T-note yields sparks some short covering in stocks. Also, some positive corporate news supports...

Barchart

Israeli captive endured ‘hell’ in attack, but treated ‘well’ in Gaza

Hamas freed 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz, along with another elderly woman, on ‘humanitarian’ grounds late on Monday.

Al Jazeera

The ‘kamikaze’ weapons Israel’s soldiers will fear most in Gaza

Hamas is believed to have weaponised thousands of commercial drones with the help of Iran

The Independent UK

Israel-Hamas conflict: what young Palestinians think about four key issues that affect their lives

On the eighth day of the current intensification of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, I saw a tweet that said that there would be more uproar in the west if “2.2 million golden retrievers [were] being bombed to extinction in an inescapable cage” instead of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

The Conversation

Freed Israeli hostage: Hamas kidnapping was 'hell'

In a remarkable press conference given the day after her release, Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, described how Hamas descended on her kibbutz near Gaza, tied her up, threw her over a motorcycle and beat her.

WEKU

Aid truck numbers arriving in Gaza ‘wholly inadequate’, says UK minister

MPs have warned further help is needed to prevent a ‘humanitarian catastrophe’.

The Independent UK

Up First briefing: Hamas releases 2 more hostages; posture and our mental health

Hamas has freed two elderly women held hostage in Gaza. Why bad posture can make us feel stressed, tired and anxious — and how to fix it.

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The Independent UK

Now freed, an Israeli hostage describes the 'hell' of harrowing Hamas attack and terrifying capture

Eighty-five year-old Yocheved Lifschitz spoke of a “hell that we never knew before and never thought we would experience” as she described the harrowing assault on her kibbutz by Hamas militants and the terror of being taken hostage into the Gaza Strip

The Independent UK

Vigil held in London to mourn children killed in Gaza

Each attendee had the name of a Palestinian child killed in the conflict written on the palm of their hand.

France 24

Hezbollah would 'prefer not to go into large-scale war' with Israel, expert says

Hezbollah could be forced into a war with Israel, but for now it’s trying to avoid any major conflict. That's the view of Ziad Majed, a professor of Middle East studies at the American University in Paris. Majed, who was born in Beirut and lived for years in Lebanon, says…

Evening Standard

OPINION - Hamas carried out a modern pogrom in Israel — forgetting that is a cousin of Holocaust denial

It is only 17 days since the atrocities of October 7 in which 1,400 people were slaughtered by Hamas in southern Israel. And yet, unbelievably — obscenely — a process of erasure is already under way. Wilful amnesia is beginning to do its terrible work.

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The National (Scotland)

Grandmother released by Hamas ‘keen to share information’

A GRANDMOTHER released as a hostage by Hamas militants is “very sharp and is very keen” to share information, her daughter has said.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Hamas must release the hostages

The footage is more shocking, violent and barbaric than the mind alone can hope to conjure. Video, recovered from Hamas body cameras, together with images from CCTV and mobile phones, provides images of the horror inflicted by the terrorists and sounds of their cheers of celebration as they murdered civilians…

Evening Standard

Israel attacks 400 targets in 24 hours as it seeks to 'dismantle' Hamas

Dozens of Hamas fighters, including three deputy battalion commanders, are reported to have been killed

The Independent UK

Hamas hostage release: Two elderly Israelis leave Gaza after Egypt and Qatar broker deal

Hamas, who took more than 200 hostages in an attack in Israel two weeks ago, said it released the hostages – two elderly Israeli women – on ‘humanitarian grounds’

The Independent UK

Israel shares Hamas body cam footage from attacks that left 1,400 dead

“We will not let the world forget about who we are fighting,” Israel says as military continues to bombard Gaza in response to massacre

Evening Standard

'Now let them all go': Daughter's plea to Hamas terrorists as elderly mother released

Yocheved Lifshitz tells reporters Hamas hit her with sticks and kept her in a 'spider web' of tunnels

The National (Scotland)

Councillors who quit Labour accuse Keir Starmer of 'gaslighting' in scathing letter

COUNCILLORS and officials who quit Labour over comments made by Keir Starmer about the Israel-Hamas conflict have accused him of “gaslighting”…

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