World2:05Mideast negotiator and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday, days after Netanyahu rejected a US-backed road map for advancing a Gaza ceasefire deal. The meeting came after Kushner met Hamas’ leader in Egypt as Washington presses Israel to approve the plan.
World2:27Ten months into a US-backed truce, at least 1,260 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. Jared Kushner says disarmament could make progress within 30 days after talks with Hamas in Cairo and Israeli leaders in Jerusalem. Hamas says it accepted the plan’s next phase but wants Israel’s commitments enforced. Gaza remains devastated and reconstruction has not started.
WorldA Palestinian American has arrived at his home in the occupied West Bank after Israeli settlers besieged it for more than a week. He is there to help family members defend the property.
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World9:26Al Jazeera senior political analyst Marwan Bishara said the US administration’s latest Gaza diplomatic effort, involving Jared Kushner’s meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, appears to have produced no major breakthrough. Netanyahu, he said, will look cooperative with Kushner without truly backing the plan, while announcing two committees to discuss it as a tactic.
World8:31Jared Kushner met Hamas in Egypt on Sunday and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday in an effort to advance Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan. Neither meeting produced a breakthrough: Hamas says Israel must leave Gaza before it lays down its weapons, while Netanyahu says troop withdrawals can begin only after Hamas disarms.
WorldIsraeli settlers have besieged three Palestinian homes in Qusra for more than a week, cutting water and electricity and pelting residents with rocks. Palestinian American Loay Ridi returned from Ohio to reunite with his family but became trapped with them. Israeli soldiers declared the area a closed military zone, yet were seen greeting and praying with settlers instead of removing them.
World1:13Palestinian American Loui Ridi flew from Detroit to the Middle East to visit his home in Qusra, an occupied West Bank village. His house and two others have been under Israeli settler siege for nearly a week.
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WorldPresident Trump’s Middle East envoy Jared Kushner held lengthy talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but there appeared to be no breakthrough in efforts to find peace in Gaza. Netanyahu’s office called the discussions deep and constructive. The programme also mentions Xi Jinping praising the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown and actress Hayden Panettiere.
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WorldUS envoy Jared Kushner met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for more than four hours and urged him to advance the Trump-backed Gaza ceasefire plan without creating obstacles, according to an Israeli source familiar with the talks. Netanyahu called progress on the 15-point plan “problematic” ahead of Israel’s elections at the end of October.
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WorldJared Kushner met Israeli leaders in Jerusalem after Israel rejected a US-backed Gaza peace plan, saying troops would withdraw only after Hamas fully disarms. Israel and the Board of Peace agreed to working groups on disarmament, sanitation and clean water. The board says Hamas weapons and tunnels must be dismantled and surrendered arms transferred to a Palestinian technocratic government under US oversight.
World3:16In an exclusive Fox News interview, U.S. special envoy Jared Kushner discusses his meetings with Hamas leaders and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the United States will not restrict Israel’s right to defend itself.
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WorldUS President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner is in Israel and is expected to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The visit follows rare Kushner talks with Hamas over implementing the US-backed Gaza peace plan. Trump’s Board of Peace said last month that an agreement had been reached for the “complete disarmament” of Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza, while Israel rejected Trump’s 15-point plan last week.
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World6:44Three Palestinian families have remained confined to their homes for a ninth day under a siege by illegal Israeli settlers. Two UN vehicles brought supplies to the 15 people inside on Sunday, but Israeli soldiers prevented them from keeping a water tanker’s delivery.
WorldUS envoy Jared Kushner is meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to advance a Gaza peace plan, after holding a rare meeting in Egypt with Hamas leaders over the group’s disarmament. Netanyahu has rejected the latest roadmap and demands full Hamas disarmament before an Israeli withdrawal. Eight countries, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, condemned the rejection.
World1:29:36Loui Ridi, a U.S. citizen who lives in the Palestinian village of Qusra, is expected to arrive from the United States at Ben Gurion Airport before travelling to the occupied West Bank to see his family. Militants from the settler community have besieged Palestinians inside their homes.
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WorldPalestinians in Gaza say conditions have not improved despite discussions about implementing a peace plan. Israeli attacks continue, injuring people in Tuffah and Shujaiya and killing a 14-year-old boy in Khan Younis. Repeated ceasefire violations are raising fears that the truce may collapse.
World6:38A UN team has reached Palestinian families trapped in Qusra, an occupied West Bank village, for more than a week. The families have been under siege by illegal Israeli settlers, according to the report. Hussam Ayloush of the Council on American-Islamic Relations provides further details.
WorldAs the siege enters its second week, 15 Palestinians, including two children, remain trapped in three homes in occupied Qusra in the West Bank. Israeli settlers and forces have cut off food, water and electricity. A UN convoy delivered supplies on Sunday, but Israeli troops blocked a water tanker from reaching the homes.
Politics4:21The Trump administration is intensifying diplomacy to secure a Gaza peace plan. US envoy Jared Kushner is due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to persuade him to support the proposal. With Netanyahu facing major political and personal stakes ahead of a possible re-election, the meeting’s potential to produce a breakthrough in Gaza is under scrutiny.
WorldThe UN has delivered aid to Qusra after Israeli settlers cut several Palestinian families off from food, water and electricity. Residents describe months of harassment and attacks, while rights groups accuse settlers of seeking to drive Palestinians from the area. Critics warn a plan to transfer law-enforcement powers in the West Bank could deepen Israel’s control there.
World4:54US envoy Jared Kushner is scheduled to hold discussions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday after meeting Hamas leaders in Egypt. The contacts are intended to revive a US-backed Gaza peace proposal that Israel has rejected to date.
World5:26UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese says the Israeli state “bears responsibility” for settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. A UN inquiry found that Israeli soldiers often accompany settlers and protect them during attacks. The UK, Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand and Norway have sanctioned networks involved in the violence.
WorldIsraeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank are trapping Palestinian families inside their homes. The violence is intensifying as Israel’s far-right government battles ahead of elections in October. Inside Story examines why the attacks are increasing and what consequences they are bringing.
WorldIn Qusra, Israeli settlers spent weeks attacking Ibrahim’s home, breaking windows, cutting off water and removing protective measures. His seven-month-old daughter was injured, while doors, appliances, water tanks, furniture and children’s clothes were later stolen. Palestinians say settlers act with impunity as the Israeli army watches without intervening, forcing families to remain inside to protect their homes.