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21 April 2026 | 04:28 PM
Red Crescent says Israeli settler gunfire kills two Palestinians including child
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21 April 2026 | 10:09 AM
Donald Trump's 'Board of Peace' held talks with DP World over Gaza reconstruction, reports FT
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21 April 2026 | 09:23 AM
Palestinian woman shot dead by Israeli naval forces off Gaza coast
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21 April 2026 | 08:57 AM
Gaza's civil defence agency says 3 killed in Israeli strike
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21 April 2026 | 07:16 AM
Israel hindering Gaza aid access despite court ruling, says NGO
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20 April 2026 | 09:51 PM
Over $71bn needed over next decade to rebuild Gaza: UN, EU
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20 April 2026 | 06:11 PM
Israeli fire kills two in Gaza; Hamas clashes with Israeli-backed militia
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20 April 2026 | 05:28 PM
EU highlights backing for Palestinians amid Mideast War
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19 April 2026 | 09:43 PM
Israel re-establishes evacuated settlement in occupied West Bank
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19 April 2026 | 09:39 PM
Spain urges EU to end association agreement with Israel
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Tuesday Apr 21 2026 | 04:28 PM
Red Crescent says Israeli settler gunfire kills two Palestinians including child
The Palestinian Red Crescent said Israeli settler gunfire killed two people, including a 13-year-old child, in an attack on Tuesday in a village in the central occupied West Bank.
"Two people were killed — one aged 13 and the other 32 — and four others were injured by live gunfire during a settler attack on the village of Al-Mughayyir near Ramallah," the Red Crescent said in a statement, adding the wounded had been taken to hospital.
When asked by AFP, the Israeli military —which has occupied the West Bank since 1967 — said it was looking into the incident.
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Tuesday Apr 21 2026 | 10:09 AM
Donald Trump's 'Board of Peace' held talks with DP World over Gaza reconstruction, reports FT
Representatives for Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" have held discussions with state-owned Dubai multinational DP World about managing supply chains and other infrastructure projects in Gaza, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing three people familiar with the matter.
The talks examined whether DP World could enter into a partnership with the "Board of Peace" to run the logistics for humanitarian aid and other goods entering Gaza, the report said.
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Tuesday Apr 21 2026 | 09:23 AM
Palestinian woman shot dead by Israeli naval forces off Gaza coast
A Palestinian woman was killed after being targeted by gunfire from Israeli warships off the northern coast of the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera reported citing it's journalists present in the besieged enclave.
This comes after the Ministry of Health in Gaza said Israeli strikes across the Strip killed five Palestinians on Monday.
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Tuesday Apr 21 2026 | 08:57 AM
Gaza's civil defence agency says 3 killed in Israeli strike
Gaza's civil defence agency said Tuesday that an Israeli strike killed three people in the Palestinian territory overnight, with Israeli warplanes seen soaring over the region after the assault, according to AFP journalists.
Despite an October 10 ceasefire, Gaza remains gripped by daily violence as both the Israeli military and Hamas accuse one another of breaching the truce.
"Three people were killed as a result of an Israeli strike at midnight in the vicinity of the Al-Zaqzouq junction in Al-Amal neighbourhood, northwest of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip," spokesman for Gaza's civil defence agency Mahmoud Bassal told AFP.
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Tuesday Apr 21 2026 | 07:16 AM
Israel hindering Gaza aid access despite court ruling, says NGO
Foreign aid groups are struggling to work in the occupied Palestinian territories including in war-torn Gaza despite Israel's top court lifting a ban against them, a director at one of the charities said Monday.
Israel in December said it was banning 37 non-governmental organisations unless they provided detailed information on their Palestinian staff, in a move humanitarian organisations warned would further curtail already inadequate aid to Gaza.
Israel's Supreme Court in February froze that ban, theoretically allowing the NGOs to continue working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank until a final ruling.
But foreign "staff continued to be rejected, supplies continued to be rejected", said Alan Moseley, Danish Refugee Council director for the Palestinian territories.
He said almost no international NGO targeted by the Israeli ban had managed to transport aid into Gaza in recent months.
"There's tonnes of supplies sitting over the border, in Egypt and in Jordan, and there's a huge amount of energy put into trying to unblock these supplies," he added.
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Monday Apr 20 2026 | 09:51 PM
Over $71bn needed over next decade to rebuild Gaza: UN, EU
An EU-UN assessment published Monday estimates that Gaza's recovery and reconstruction will require more than $71 billion over the next decade.
In their final Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA), the United Nations and the European Union said that more than two years of war in the Palestinian territory, ending in 2024, "has led to unprecedented loss of life and a catastrophic humanitarian crisis".
"Recovery and reconstruction needs are estimated at around $71.4 billion," said the assessment, developed in coordination with the World Bank.
The final assessment determined that $26.3 billion would be required in the first 18 months to restore essential services, rebuild critical infrastructure and support economic recovery.
"Physical infrastructure damages are estimated at $35.2 billion, with economic and social losses amounting to $22.7 billion," a joint statement said.
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Monday Apr 20 2026 | 06:11 PM
Israeli fire kills two in Gaza; Hamas clashes with Israeli-backed militia
Israeli strikes killed at least two Palestinians in separate incidents in the Gaza Strip on Monday, health officials said, and fighters from Hamas clashed with gunmen from an Israeli-backed militia, witnesses said.
Medics said one man was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Bureij camp in the central area of the enclave, while another strike killed one person and wounded others in Gaza City.
More than 750 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire deal took effect, according to local medics, while Israel says killed four of its soldiers had been killed.
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Monday Apr 20 2026 | 05:28 PM
EU highlights backing for Palestinians amid Mideast War
European backers put on a show of support for the Palestinian Authority and the push for a two-state solution Monday, as the US-Israeli war with Iran has dragged focus away from Gaza.
The efforts to bolster the Palestinian Authority come as US President Donald Trump has sidelined it in his plans for Gaza and the "Board of Peace" initiative.
"We meet in the middle of a storm. But we cannot abandon the compass," said Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot at the start of a meeting of the "Global Alliance for the Two-State Solution".
"We must hold the course, because the Israeli-Palestinian issue is affecting the Middle East as a whole and also the rest of the world."
"We can and must do more to ensure respect for human rights and accountability, to protect the Palestinian people and to put the two-state solution solidly on the table again," EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.
Attending the Brussels conference, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa said it was happening "at a moment defined by both immense tragedy and a narrow, but real opportunity to move from war toward a just and lasting peace".
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Sunday Apr 19 2026 | 09:43 PM
Israel re-establishes evacuated settlement in occupied West Bank
Israeli ministers on Sunday officially reopened Sa-Nur, a settlement in the occupied West Bank that was evacuated 20 years ago, marking the occasion with defiant declarations against Palestinian statehood and calls to resettle Gaza.
Several cabinet members and lawmakers attended the ceremony near a cluster of white prefabricated homes arranged in rows on a hilltop.
Excluding east Jerusalem, more than 500,000 Israelis now live in the West Bank in settlements that are illegal under international law, among some three million Palestinians.
"On this exciting day, we celebrate a historic correction to the criminal expulsion from Northern Samaria," Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said, using the Israeli biblical term for part of the West Bank.
Sa-Nur's settlers were evicted in 2005 as part of Israel's so-called disengagement policy that also saw the country withdraw troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip.
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Sunday Apr 19 2026 | 09:39 PM
Spain urges EU to end association agreement with Israel
Spain will ask the European Union to end its association agreement with Israel over violations of international law, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Sunday.
Spain has criticised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government over the Gaza conflict and Israel's attacks on neighbouring Lebanon. Netanyahu has accused Spain of "hypocrisy and hostility".
"On Tuesday, Spain's government will present a proposal to the EU that the European Union break off its association agreement with Israel", Sanchez told a political rally in Andalusia.
He alleged that Israel "violates international law" and therefore "cannot be a partner of the European Union... it's as simple as that".
