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Live updates | Israel and Pakistan extend truce, agree to free more hostages and prisoners

Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend their cease-fire for two days, raising the prospect of further exchanges of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel and a longer halt to their deadliest and most destructive war

The Independent UK

The beginning of the end? The hypothetical future of Palestinian politics

Could Hamas’s rival, the PA, return to rule Gaza? Would Palestinians even accept it?

Al Jazeera

Prisoner Releases Send Hamas Support Rocketing In West Bank

In Palestinian cities in the occupied West Bank, long the turf of president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party, the green flag of Islamist rival Hamas is flying ever higher thanks to prisoner-hostage exchanges.

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Hamas says it wants to extend truce after latest exchange of captives with Israel

The announcement from the Islamist militant group came after a third hostages-for-prisoners swap with Israel in which 17 captives and 39 Palestinian prisoners were released.

WEKU

'Multiple Palestinians killed in the West Bank,' officials claim

Multiple Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank as a fragile pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip entered its third day.

Evening Standard

Syria says Israeli strikes put Damascus airport out of service – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Israeli army says 17 hostages handed over to Red Cross by Hamas

Hamas fighters on Sunday confirmed the handover of 17 hostages to the Red Cross – the third round of hostage-prisoner swaps on day three of a fragile four-day truce between Israel and the Palestinian militants.

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Israeli forces kill at least 8 Palestinians in surging West Bank violence, health officials say

Health officials say Israeli forces operating in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians in a 24-hour period

The Independent UK

Israeli forces carry out deadly raids in the West Bank amid Gaza truce

Five Palestinians were shot dead in Jenin, while three others were killed elsewhere in the occupied West Bank on Sunday.

Al Jazeera

In pictures: emotional scenes as Israel and Hamas trade prisoners for hostages

Hamas freed 17 hostages and Israel released 39 Palestinian detainees. We take a look at what has happened so far.

WEKU

Disappointed, disenchanted, defiant: inside the world of the West Bank’s angry armed youths

A new generation of young Palestinian militants speak about their beliefs and what drives them to take up the fight

The Guardian - UK

Hair, makeup and hopefully a sister back home: Palestinians await prisoner release

With 42 women and children set to be released under the ceasefire deal, hopes for family reunions are running high in the West Bank

The Guardian - UK

Palestinian families rejoice over release of minors and women in wartime prisoner swap

More than three dozen Palestinian prisoners have returned home to a hero’s welcome in the occupied West Bank following their release from Israeli prisons as part of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas

The Independent UK

Seven films to be screened as part of IFFK’s anti-colonisation package

IFFK to screen 7 films in anti-colonisation package, incl. Mujib, Omar, Degrade, Crescendo, Paths of Glory, Thin Red Line, Great Dictator. Package in solidarity with Palestine. Mujib is biopic on Bangladesh's founding father; Omar tells story of Palestinian youth scaling West Bank wall; Degrade about 2 hairdressers in Gaza; Crescendo…

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Al Jazeera

Chocolate cake, loving parents await Palestinian teen Israel might free

In a home in the West Bank, Ubai’s family is praying that the Israel-Hamas truce brings him back to them.

France 24

West Bank forgotten? Settler violence against Palestinians grows as war continues

The world's eyes are on Gaza at the moment, and rightly so. But violence is also continuing in the occupied West Bank. Even before the October 7 Hamas attacks, 2023 was already the deadliest year for Palestinians there in two decades. Now, violent confrontations are happening almost every day. Israel…

Al Jazeera

Palestinians, supporters fly flag in emotional World Cup qualifier

Palestine’s flag was ubiquitous at the game, which was moved from the West Bank to Kuwait due to the Israel-Hamas war.

The Independent UK

Gaza health officials say they lost the ability to count dead as Israeli offensive intensifies

Palestinian health officials in Gaza say they have lost the ability to count the dead because of the collapse of the enclave's health system and the difficulty of retrieving bodies from areas overrun by Israeli tanks and troops

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West Bank's settler violence problem is a second sign that Israel's policy of ignoring Palestinians' drive for a homeland isn't a long-term solution

With violence and destruction raging in southern Israel and Gaza, there has been less attention on the worsening violence in the West Bank, the other half of the occupied territories.

The Independent UK

With the world's eyes on Gaza, attacks are on the rise in the West Bank, which faces its own war

When Israeli warplanes swooped over the Gaza Strip following Hamas militants’ brutal attack on southern Israel, Palestinians say a different kind of war took hold in the occupied West Bank

The Guardian - UK

‘These are biblical lands promised to us’: Jewish settlers in West Bank hope Gaza conflict will help their cause

Human rights groups say settlers, empowered by their right-wing government, are exploiting the Israel-Hamas war

Evening Standard

Israel kills several 'terrorists' in overnight operations in West Bank

A US State Department official says around 140,000 litres of fuel will be allowed into Gaza every two days

The Independent UK

Israeli troops kill 5 Palestinians, including 3 militants, as West Bank violence surges

Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians, including three militants, across the West Bank, deepening a surge of violence in the occupied territory that has accompanied Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip

France 24

Israeli army accused of 'destroying all Palestinian symbols' in West Bank refugee camps

Since the start of the war with Hamas on October 7, the Israeli army has stepped up its raids on the occupied West Bank, particularly in the Tulkarem and Jenin refugee camps, which Palestinians see as bastions of resistance.

The Guardian - UK

Israel kills Hamas militants in Jenin raid as violence surges in West Bank

Hamas says three fighters died, while Israeli military says it killed at least five, as tensions rise

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