Archives for January, 2025

Latifa Abu Hamid says she cannot be fully happy until all Palestinian prisoners are released

Joy and anxiety for Palestinian mother as Israel frees sons

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (L) shakes hands with his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi (R) in Kabul

Iran, Afghanistan call for more ties in high-level Kabul talks

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The crowds were gathered on the coastal road near Nuseirat hoping to be permitted to return to north Gaza

Displaced Gazans mass at Israeli barrier waiting to reach north

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People cheer Sudan's de facto leader, armed forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at the market in Port Sudan on December 29, 2024

Sudan army chief visits HQ after recapture from paramilitaries

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People cheer Sudan's de facto leader, armed forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at the market in Port Sudan on December 29, 2024

Sudan's army chief visits HQ after recapture from paramilitaries

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US President Donald Trump speaks with the press, alongside White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (R), on board Air Force One

Trump floats plan to 'just clean out' Gaza

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Residents fly Hezbollah flags near an Israeli military vehicle as people gather on the road to Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon

Lebanon says will extend ceasefire despite Israel's failure to withdraw troops

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Displaced Palestinians hoping to return to northern Gaza wait along Salah al-Din road near the blocked Netzarim corridor, after a last-minute dispute halted their return during a truce between Israel and Hamas

Israel says Gazans can return home as more hostage releases agreed

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Freed Palestinians still wearing their grey prison tracksuits wave to well-wishers as they arrive in the West Bank city of Ramallah for a health check.

Crowds cheer, families hug as Palestinian prisoners released

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Newly released Israeli hostage Daniella Gilboa, gestures as she leaves a military helicopter upon landing at the Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva

Freed Israeli hostages reach hospital on military helicopter: AFP

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Scores of prisoners were reunited with their families

Yemen rebels in Trump's sights free 150 war prisoners

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Members of a crowd gathered in Tel Aviv react during the livestreamed release of four women soldiers held hostage in Gaza

Israelis rejoice at release of second group of Gaza hostages

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The four Israeli hostages to be released on Saturday (L to R): Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa and Naama Levy.

The four Israeli women hostages freed on Saturday

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The four Israeli hostages, all soldiers, emerged to whistles, cheers and shouts from the crowd as Hamas camera crews and photographers swarmed around them.

Hamas parades Israeli hostages at slick ceremony before release

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Palestinians walk amid the destruction in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City

Gaza development put back 60 years by war: UNDP chief

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Lebanese army soldiers (R) and Israeli troops gather near their vehicles on either side of a barbed wire barrier, as an Israeli bulldozer pours soil to build a roadblock in Borj al-Mlouk in the border district of Marjayoun, southern Lebanon

Lebanon army accuses Israel of 'procrastination' in ceasefire withdrawal

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