Tag: Ceasefire
White House ‘disappointed’ Israel cancels delegation to Washington
John Kirby, the White House national security communications advisor, told reporters on Monday that the Biden administration is “disappointed” that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called off a high-level delegation to Washington to discuss a...
Netanyahu cancels delegation to US as UN Security Council backs ceasefire
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday canceled a high-level delegation to Washington after the Biden administration failed to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war against...
US abstains as UN Security Council unanimously passes ceasefire resolution
The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a resolution that demands a ceasefire for the rest of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan and the release of all hostages being held captive by Hamas in the...
Israel agrees to free 800 Palestinian security prisoners for 40 hostages
As part of truce talks taking place in Doha, Qatar, Israeli officials have agreed to release between 700 to 800 Palestinian security prisoners in exchange for 40 Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the...
China, Russia veto US ceasefire resolution at the UN Security Council
China and Russia vetoed a U.S.-drafted resolution at the U.N. Security Council on Friday morning, saying the text didn’t go far enough in calling for a ceasefire in the war against Hamas in Gaza.
Washington’s...
Celebrity US chef feeding Gaza calls for ‘ceasefire, with hostages released on both sides’
José Andrés, the celebrity chef and founder of World Central Kitchen who is donating food to Gazans, called on U.S. President Joe Biden to demand that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “stop killing children, targeting humanitarian...
US pushes for short ceasefire in Gaza war to buy time
U.S. and Arab negotiators pushed Israel and the terror group Hamas to agree to a short cessation in fighting—if for only a few days—in the hopes it will lead to a longer Gaza ceasefire.
A...
Ceasefire resolutions and a tale of four cities
Ceasefire resolutions are all the rage in cities across America these days. Rather than focus on returning the hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, these resolutions, which come clothed in “humanitarian concern,” demand...
Hamas say they don’t know which hostages are alive, or where they are
A Hamas official explained to the BBC on Sunday why the terror group didn’t accede to the Israeli demand to provide the number of hostages still alive: it doesn’t know itself.
“Practically it is impossible to know...
Kamala Harris demands ‘immediate ceasefire, for at least next six weeks’
Overlooking Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the “Bloody Sunday” attacks on civil-rights activists in 1965 in Selma, Ala., U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris opened her speech marking the 59th anniversary of that violence...