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Ellie Grant

Ellie Grant

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US in unprecedented direct talks with Hamas over phase two of ceasefire deal

An estimated 24 living hostages still remain in captivity in Gaza

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The White House has confirmed that the Trump administration has entered unprecedented direct negotiations with Hamas (Image: Getty)

Released hostage Eli Sharabi meets with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on March 5, 2025 (Picture: White House/X)

Trump meets with released hostages in Oval Office

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Jesse Eisenberg has been granted Polish citizenship by President Andrzej Duda (Picture: Reuters)

US actor Jesse Eisenberg granted Polish citizenship after directing A Real Pain

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Comedy legend John Cleese will tour Israel this year, with a run of three shows in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv (Image: Getty)

Comedy legend John Cleese to perform three shows in Israel this June

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Arab leaders agree Egypt’s plan for Hamas-free Gaza

The deal is set to face pushback from Washington and Jerusalem, which favour President Trump’s alternative

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March 5, 2025 12:28

An AI image of the reconstructed Gaza Strip from Egypt's 'Early Recovery, Reconstruction, Development of Gaza' programme, March 4, 2025 (Picture: Egyptian Presidency)

Arab leaders set to meet in Cairo over alternative to Trump’s Gaza plan

Proposal would see interim international rule of Gaza in place of Hamas

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March 4, 2025 13:04

A rocky shoreline near tents for displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, December 2024 (Photo: Getty Images)

Russian missile experts visited Iran amid tensions with Israel, according to Reuters

The seven weapons experts were booked to travel from Moscow to Tehran aboard two flights last year

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March 4, 2025 11:57

Iranian drone on display during manoeuvres in Tehran in January this year (Photo: Getty Images)

Jewish actors take top prizes at Oscars, as West Bank documentary also wins

No Other Land directors criticise the US government as they accept documentary Oscar

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March 3, 2025 10:52

Adrien Brody attends the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party (Picture: Getty)

First Israeli report into Oct 7 published, detailing ‘one of the greatest failures in IDF history’

‘Far too many civilians died asking where is the IDF?’

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February 28, 2025 12:47

View of Kibbutz Nir Oz, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, February 25, 2025 (Picture: Flash90)

Twelve injured in terror ramming attack in Israel as suspect ‘neutralised’

Officials said the attacker drover a car into a crowd of pedestrians before attacking bystanders with a knife

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February 27, 2025 16:17

The scene of a suspected ramming attack at Karkur Junction (Picture: X)

Staines Synagogue's joy as ‘adopted’ hostage Omer Shem Tov is released

‘This is a story that is worth telling as it offers a chink of light’, says the synagogue’s chairman

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February 26, 2025 15:41

Omer Shem Tov is reunited with his parents (Photo: IDF)

Oded Lifschitz, 84, peace activist and journalist, murdered by Hamas

‘His life ended in a tragic, undeserved, despicable way’

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February 26, 2025 13:24

Oded Liftshitz with his daughter Sharone

‘I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you better’ says father of Bibas boys as Israel mourns

Thousands have gathered to pay their respects to Shiri Bibas and her two young sons, Ariel and Kfir

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February 26, 2025 10:35

Yarden Bibas speaking at the funeral at Tsoher Cemetery (Picture: X)

Rose Girone, world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, dies at 113

‘She was a strong lady, resilient.’

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February 25, 2025 15:22

Rose Girone, the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, has died at 113 (Picture: Screenshot)

Senior Hamas official says he wouldn’t have backed October 7 if he had known the consequences

Foreign affairs official Mousa Abu Marzouk told the New York Times that the group was willing to negotiate over its armaments

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February 25, 2025 12:13

Senior Hamas official, Moussa Abu Marzouk speaks to media in Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza strip (Picture: Flash90)

Bibas family to hold private funeral for slain hostages Shiri, Ariel and Kfir

Eulogies at the ceremony near Kibbutz Nir Oz may be livestreamed after the family became a symbol of hostage suffering

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February 24, 2025 11:06

Shiri Bibas and her children Kfir and Ariel (Picture: Flash90)

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