Abbas Araghchi speaks to the media after the meeting of the Joint Commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA): AFP/Getty Images/ Iran’s top diplomats have said they will not enter into negotiations until the US stops its campaign of “maximum pressure” on Tehran, making bilateral ...
'Maximum pressure' from Washington has produced 'maximum resistance' from Tehran, Iranian senior diplomat warns/ Iran’s top diplomats have said they will not enter into negotiations until the US stops its campaign of “maximum pressure” on Tehran, making bilateral talks between leaders attending ...
08AM [Updated: Mon Sep 23, 2019 03:09AM ]/ US President Donald Trump says he has no plans to meet his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, but he is open to hearing his "Hormuz Peace Initiative" at the UN General Assembly in New York. "I'm always open. I have no plans to meet with them, but I'm ...
An Israeli annexation of West Bank would threaten peace deal/ US Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have criticised a move by Israel's parliament towards annexation of the occupied West Bank. On Wednesday, far-right politicians in the Knesset took the symbolic step of ...
The Israeli military is exerting control over more of Gaza than expected from the ceasefire deal with Hamas, a BBC Verify analysis has found. Under the first stage of the deal, Israel agreed to retreat to a boundary running along the north, south and east of Gaza. The divide was marked by a ...
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has said Israel is obliged to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip by the United Nations and its entities to ensure the basic needs of the Palestinian civilians are met. also said Israel had not substantiated its allegations that ...
Gaza health crisis will last 'for generations', says WHO chief/ Gaza is experiencing a health "catastrophe" that will last for "generations to come", the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a ...
Arie Zalmanowicz and Tamir Adar's bodies were returned by Hamas on Tuesday night/ Israel's military says the bodies of two hostages returned by Hamas on Tuesday have been identified as Arie Zalmanowicz and Master Sgt (res) Tamir Adar. Zalmanowicz , 85, was abducted from his home in Kibbutz Nir ...
The Israeli military has begun to mark out the withdrawal line with yellow blocks/ Under Donald Trump's peace plan for Gaza, the "yellow line" - which Israel withdrew to earlier this month - is the first of three stages of Israeli military withdrawal. It leaves it in control of about 53% of the ...
JD Vance and his wife Usha were greeted by US ambassador Mike Huckabee and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yariv Levin on arrival in Tel Aviv/ US Vice-President JD Vance has arrived in Israel as part of the Trump administration's efforts to strengthen the Gaza ceasefire agreement. He is expected ...
The masked settler struck Umm Saleh Abu Alia with a stick used as a club/ A 55-year-old Palestinian woman has been taken to hospital after being clubbed over the head by a masked Jewish settler as she was picking olives. The unprovoked attack, which took place on Sunday morning in the ...
Sunday saw the deadliest day of attacks since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October/ One week ago, US President Donald Trump was given a hero's welcome in Israel after securing the Gaza ceasefire and exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. But the days since have shown just how ...
Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv was filled with smoke before the scheduled kick-off/ The Israeli Premier League derby between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv was cancelled before kick-off on Sunday, after what police described as "public disorder and violent riots". "Dozens of smoke grenades ...