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I hope it will happen so we'll be able to cook in our homes and make whatever food we want, without having to go to soup kitchens and exhaust ourselves for three or four hours trying to get (food) - sometimes not even making it home,
displaced Palestinian Reeham Sheikh al-Eid said We have been making efforts to lift the sanctions from the first day of the [Assad] regime’s fall, and we do not want Syria to collapse,
The sanctions were imposed on the Assad regime and are not logical now. The new administration is not expected to address international concerns and work for its people under sanctions simultaneously,
A humanitarian protocol has been reached regarding the mechanism for delivering aid to prevent blackmail,
This meeting was expected to take place on Saturday, but pressure from mediators has made them start today,
We reject Israel’s reckless act of incursion in the buffer zone in Syria. We talked with Ahmad al-Sharaa and affirmed the necessity of Israeli withdrawal and that the incursion should not create a new reality,
Life has become an unbearable hell,
said resident Jomaa Abed al-Aal I think the possibility is very much there and specifically when other crossings will be opened up,
Rik Peeperkorn, WHO representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, told a press briefing in Geneva Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was informed by the negotiating team that agreements have been reached on a deal to release the hostages,
his office said in a statement The agreement is very vague and there are a lot of places where Israel can – and will – manoeuvre its way out of it,
The Netanyahu today is not the one of the past. He’s more fearful and he’s unable to make decisions, which has led to strategic paralysis,
The sad history of Gaza shows us there is a cycle of escalation and deescalation because there is no political framework to address root causes,
This [deal] will provide immediate relief by getting humanitarian aid in and to provide for a release of hostages and prisoners. The [deal] is more of an immediate pause than a long-term solution,
Israel is very good at breaking ceasefires and making it appear that it wasn’t its fault,
said Mairav Zonszein, an expert on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group Everyone sees Netanyahu as a dominant force in Israeli politics, but it is remarkable how much Smotrich and Ben-Gvir have been able to exploit his political fears to pursue their own agendas,
said Hugh Lovatt, an expert on Israel-Palestine with the European Council on Foreign Relations If you have a united Palestinian territory under a united Palestinian leadership, then Israel will be under pressure to participate in a political end game, and Netanyahu doesn’t want that to happen,
We hope this ceasefire will be implemented consistently and comprehensively by the contents of the agreement,
he said in a Facebook post on Thursday It's not exactly surprising that in a process and negotiation that has been this challenging and this fraught, you may get a loose end,
Blinken told a press conference in Washington, as per Reuters I say to Benjamin Netanyahu, don’t be afraid or intimidated, you will get every safety net you need to make the hostage deal. This is more important than any disagreement we’ve ever had,
Lapid said in a post on X on Thursday The deal that is taking shape is a reckless deal,
Ben-Gvir said in a televised statement, saying
