Hamas official says hostage and prisoner lists exchanged with Israel
Senior Hamas official Taher al-Nounou stated on Wednesday that negotiators from his group and Israel have exchanged lists of prisoners and hostages who can be launched ought to a deal be reached throughout the ongoing Gaza ceasefire talks in Egypt.
In keeping with Reuters, al-Nounou additionally stated Hamas expressed optimism about reaching a deal, stating that the group has demonstrated the required positivity.
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Hamas condemns Israeli minister’s go to to al-Aqsa compound as ‘deliberate provocation’
Hamas have condemned Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s go to to al-Aqsa compound on Wednesday as a “deliberate provocation”.
Israel’s far-right nationwide safety minister prayed at al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem on Wednesday and known as on prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pursue “full victory” over Hamas in Gaza.
In keeping with Reuters, in a video on the sting of probably the most delicate websites within the Center East, Ben-Gvir stated that two years after the 7 October 2023 Hamas assault that triggered the Gaza warfare, Israel was “successful” on the Jerusalem compound recognized to Jews as Temple Mount and to Muslims because the Noble Sanctuary.
A second video confirmed him praying on the compound, in a recent problem to a decades-old understanding which permits solely Muslim worship on the web site.
A screengrab from a video reveals Israeli nationwide safety minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on the al-Aqsa mosque compound on Wednesday. {Photograph}: Jewish Energy/Reuters
Ben-Gvir stated within the video launched by his Jewish Energy celebration:
Each home in Gaza has an image of the Temple Mount, and at the moment, two years later, we’re successful on the Temple Mount. We’re the house owners of the Temple Mount.
I solely pray that our prime minister will enable a whole victory in Gaza as nicely – to destroy Hamas, with God’s assist we are going to return the hostages, and we are going to win a whole victory.
His remarks had been launched as Israel and Hamas are deep in oblique negotiations in Egypt to launch all remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza and finish the warfare there.
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As a part of the Guardian’s Israel-Gaza: two years on sequence marking the second anniversary of the Hamas assault into Israel and the warfare in Gaza, the beneath has been printed:
The youngsters’s names seem on a listing of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by well being authorities within the territory. As of the tip of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 had been beneath 18s. Removed from complete, the record doesn’t embody the hundreds nonetheless buried beneath the rubble of destroyed buildings, in addition to the warfare’s many oblique victims.
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Agence France-Presse have a quote from senior Hamas official Taher al-Nounou.
Chatting with the information company from the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh, the place oblique talks started on Monday between Israel and Hamas, al-Nounou stated:
The mediators are making nice efforts to take away any obstacles to the implementation of the ceasefire, and a spirit of optimism prevails amongst all events.
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US president Donald Trump requested Turkey to “persuade” Hamas to simply accept his plan for ending the Gaza warfare, president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated in a transcript shared by his workplace on Wednesday.
“Each throughout our go to to the USA and in our most up-to-date cellphone name, we defined to Mr Trump how an answer might be achieved in Palestine. He particularly requested that we meet with Hamas and persuade them,” Erdoğan informed Turkish journalists on board a aircraft getting back from Azerbaijan, studies Agence France-Presse (AFP).
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Israel’s far-right nationwide safety minister Itamar Ben Gvir visited the al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, his spokesperson informed Agence France-Presse (AFP), as oblique negotiations between Israel and Hamas had been being held in Egypt on ending the Gaza warfare.
The go to is Ben Gvir’s eleventh as minister to the realm which accommodates Islam’s third-holiest web site and is Judaism’s holiest place, revered as the positioning of the primary and second Jewish temples.
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Turkey on Wednesday criticised an intervention by Israeli forces in opposition to a Gaza-bound help flotilla as an act of piracy and a violation of worldwide legislation.
Turkey’s international ministry stated the intervention in opposition to the Freedom Flotilla, together with Turkish nationals and lawmakers, confirmed that the “genocidal” Israeli authorities focused all peaceable measures and heightened tensions within the area whereas damaging peace efforts, studies Reuters.
“The intervention in worldwide waters in opposition to the Freedom Flotilla … is an act of piracy,” it stated in an announcement, describing it as “an assault on civil activists, together with Turkish residents and members of parliament”.
It added in its assertion that each one initiatives had been being taken for Turkish residents held by Israel to be freed and returned to Turkey, and that it was coordinating with different international locations concerning their residents too.
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Hamas official says hostage and prisoner lists exchanged with Israel
Senior Hamas official Taher al-Nounou stated on Wednesday that negotiators from his group and Israel have exchanged lists of prisoners and hostages who can be launched ought to a deal be reached throughout the ongoing Gaza ceasefire talks in Egypt.
In keeping with Reuters, al-Nounou additionally stated Hamas expressed optimism about reaching a deal, stating that the group has demonstrated the required positivity.
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Philippines says crew member of Dutch ship has died after Houthi assault
A Filipino crew member of a Dutch cargo ship has died from accidents sustained in an assault by Houthi rebels within the Gulf of Aden final week, the Philippine authorities stated on Wednesday.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed accountability for the 29 September assault within the busy delivery lane on the MV Minervagracht, inflicting a hearth and injuring two individuals.
The second casualty, additionally a Filipino, is recovering from accidents sustained within the assault, whereas 10 different Filipino crew members had been repatriated to Manila on the weekend, the Philippine Division of Migrant Staff stated, in accordance with Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Philippine officers are on their approach to Djibouti, together with the lifeless sailor’s sister and spouse, to fulfill the shipowner and organize for the repatriation of his stays, migrant employees minister Hans Cacdac stated in a submit on social media platform X on Wednesday.
The Houthis have stated their assaults on industrial delivery are in help of Palestinians throughout the Israel-Hamas warfare in Gaza.
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The New York Metropolis Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday night attended a vigil in Manhattan convened by Israelis for Peace, an anti-occupation group of Israelis in New York who’ve rallied weekly since 2023 to name for a ceasefire and the discharge of Israeli hostages.
Sitting in Union Sq. alongside New York Metropolis comptroller Brad Lander, his one-time rival for the Democratic nomination who has been campaigning for him, Mamdani listened as audio system on the occasion – which marked the two-year anniversary of the 7 October Hamas assaults on Israel – known as for an finish to the killing and to Israel’s occupation, and for equal rights for Palestinians.
Democratic nominee for mayor of New York Metropolis Zohran Mamdani speaks at a press convention in Bronx, New York, on 1 October. {Photograph}: Anadolu/Getty Photographs
Zohran Mamdani
Earlier within the day, Mamdani drew ire from Israel over his assertion on the anniversary by which he commemorated each the Israeli victims from that day and Palestinian victims from Israel’s ensuing warfare on Gaza.
Mamdani stated within the assertion on Tuesday:
Two years in the past at the moment, Hamas carried out a horrific warfare crime, killing greater than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 extra. I mourn these lives and pray for the protected return of each hostage nonetheless held and for each household whose lives had been torn aside by these atrocities.
He denounced Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his authorities for launching a “genocidal warfare” in Gaza as nicely. He additionally accused the US authorities of being “complicit”.
Mamdani wrote:
A dying toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli army bombing houses, hospitals, and colleges into rubble.
Daily in Gaza has grow to be a spot the place grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the households which were shattered.
He stated the final two years had “demonstrated the very worst of humanity” and known as for an finish to Israeli “occupation and apartheid”.
Mamdani’s assertion prompted a pointy rebuke from the Israeli international ministry on X, accusing him of “performing as a mouthpiece for Hamas propaganda” and “spreading Hamas’s faux genocide marketing campaign”.
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Israel intercepts one other Gaza help flotilla amid criticism over therapy of activists
A brand new Gaza-bound help flotilla has been intercepted by the Israeli military, days after the detention of activists on board vessels certain for the war-torn territory prompted worldwide outrage and widespread protests.
The Israeli army was jamming alerts with no less than two boats being boarded, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) stated on Instagram.
“The Israeli army has no authorized jurisdiction over worldwide waters,” it added. “Our flotilla poses no hurt.”
“Three vessels – Gaza Sunbirds, Alaa Al-Najjar, and Anas Al-Sharif – have been attacked and illegally intercepted by the Israeli army” early morning, 220km off the coast of Gaza, organisers stated on X.
It stated one other ship, the Conscience was additionally “beneath assault”.
The Israeli international ministry confirmed it had intercepted boats trying to achieve Gaza and that these on board can be transferred to an Israeli port the place they’d be deported.
“One other futile try to breach the authorized naval blockade and enter a fight zone led to nothing,” the ministry stated in a submit on-line.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition is a global community of pro-Palestinian activist teams that organises civilian maritime missions geared toward breaking Israel’s blockade of Gaza to ship humanitarian help to Palestinians there.
The ships carried help value greater than $110,000 in medicines, respiratory tools and dietary provides meant for Gaza’s ravenous hospitals, the FFC stated.
The incident was the second such occasion in latest days, after Israel intercepted about 40 vessels and detained greater than 450 activists in an help convoy, the International Sumud Flotilla, that was additionally trying to ship provides to Gaza.
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US, Turkey and Qatar be part of Hamas and Israeli negotiators for third day of Gaza ceasefire talks
Delegates from the United States and Turkey in addition to Qatar’s prime minister will be part of Hamas and Israeli negotiators on Wednesday for a 3rd day of talks geared toward ending the Gaza warfare.
Israel and Hamas are holding oblique negotiations within the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh, primarily based on a 20-point plan proposed by Donald Trump.
Qatar’s prime minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Turkey’s intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin, Trump’s particular Center East envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are all on account of attend the talks, Agence France-Presse studies (AFP).
“There’s an actual likelihood that we may do one thing,” the US president informed reporters within the Oval Workplace on Tuesday. Trump added:
I feel there’s a chance that we may have peace within the Center East. It’s one thing even past the Gaza scenario. We would like a launch of the hostages instantly.
The talks got here as Israel commemorated the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October 2023 assault that triggered the warfare. It resulted within the deaths of greater than 1,200 individuals, largely civilians. Militants additionally took 251 individuals hostage into Gaza, of whom 47 stay captive, together with 25 the Israeli army says are lifeless.
Folks attend a ceremony to mark the two-year anniversary of Hamas’s lethal 7 October 2023 assault on Israel, in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. {Photograph}: Shir Torem/Reuters
International strain to finish the warfare has escalated, with a lot of Gaza flattened, a UN-declared famine unfolding and Israeli hostage households nonetheless eager for their family members’ return. A UN fee introduced final month that it had discovered Israel to be committing genocide in Gaza.
In keeping with the UN about 90 % of the inhabitants in Gaza have been displaced because the begin of the battle. {Photograph}: Mohammed Saber/EPA
We’ll submit updates on the talks geared toward ending the Gaza warfare as they arrive in. However first, listed here are another developments:
Israelis gathered throughout the nation on Tuesday to mark the second anniversary of the Hamas-led 7 October assault. Unofficial commemorations had been held within the small kibbutzim of southern Israel whose members had been killed or kidnapped, and a big rally was held in Tel Aviv to name for the discharge of the remaining hostages from Hamas captivity in Gaza.
A brand new Gaza-bound help flotilla has been intercepted by the Israeli military, days after the detention of activists on board vessels certain for the war-torn territory prompted worldwide outrage and widespread protests. The Israeli army was jamming alerts with no less than two boats being boarded, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition stated on Instagram.
Israeli forces have arrested no less than 35 individuals within the occupied West Financial institution, East Jerusalem and elsewhere since Monday, in accordance with a bunch representing Palestinian prisoners. The Israeli army didn’t instantly affirm the arrests however stated “common counter-terrorism exercise” was beneath approach.
Israel has repeatedly denied permission to switch incubators from an evacuated hospital in northern Gaza, a UN kids’s company official stated on Tuesday, including to pressure on overcrowded hospitals farther south the place new child infants are actually sharing oxygen masks.
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