Daily News Brief

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A summary of today's impactful news stories from around the world hand-picked by our staff at TRT World.

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January 5, 2025

Jan 04 2025 3 mins

*) Gaza truce talks resume as Israel kills 30 in fresh strikes Talks for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release are back on, Israel confirmed, with Qatar mediating the high-stakes negotiations. Meanwhile, Gaza's civil defence reports over thirty killed in fresh air strikes, including 11 members of the al Ghoula family—seven of them children. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu h

January 4, 2025

Jan 03 2025 2 mins

*) US plans '$8B arms deal' with Israel amid Gaza genocide The Biden administration has informally notified the US Congress of a proposed 8 billion dollars arms deal with Israel that includes munitions for fighter jets and attack helicopters alongside artillery shells, According to Axios, the US military backing to Israel has totalled more than 200 billion dollars since the crea

January 3, 2025

Jan 02 2025 2 mins

*) UN condemns Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals, demands safe zones The UN has strongly condemned Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals, demanding they remain "off limits." UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq says over twelve-thousand-people require urgent medical evacuation, adding that the impact of Israel's evacuation orders have affected over eighty-percent of Gaza. Haq called for m

January 2, 2025

Jan 01 2025 2 mins

*) Israel strikes southern Gaza, kills at least 10 Palestinians At least ten Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent sheltering displaced families in southern Gaza's Al-Mawasi area, medics report. The attack on the site, designated as a humanitarian zone in Khan Younis, also left fifteen others wounded. *) Israel's war depletes Gaz

January 1, 2025

Dec 31 2024 2 mins

*) Israeli invasion in Gaza claims first civilian casualty of 2025 The New Year dawns tragically for Palestinians as Israeli forces escalate in Gaza. An air strike hit the Abu Dhaher family home in Bureij camp, killing eight-year-old Adam Farhallah—the first Palestinian civilian casualty of twenty-twenty-five. Meanwhile, National Campaign to Retrieve Martyrs' Bodies, a non-go

December 31, 2024

Dec 30 2024 2 mins

*) Israel's Gaza invasion amounts to ethnic cleansing — report Israel's invasion in northern Gaza, including the destruction of hospitals, amounts to "ethnic cleansing," says the Tel Aviv-based media outlet-Haaretz. In its editorial article, the paper criticised the Israeli army's tactics as an effort to depopulate the area, violating the Fourth Geneva Convention's wartime hosp

December 30, 2024

Dec 29 2024 2 mins

*) Israel detains Palestinians in critical health condition in Gaza The Health Ministry in Gaza says Israeli forces detained four Palestinian patients who were being transferred for medical care. They were on their way from the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, a transfer organised by the World Health Organization. Out of the ten patients

December 29, 2024

Dec 28 2024 2 mins

* Israeli attack on Gaza's Kamal Adwan hospital leaves it deserted — WHO The World Health Organization has confirmed that Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza is now empty after an Israeli military raid on Friday, which has forced the last major health facility in the area out of service. Expressing its outrage, the WHO stated, "Hospitals have once again become battlegrounds,"

December 28, 2024

Dec 27 2024 2 mins

* Israeli attack on Kamal Adwan Hospital put 'last major health facility' in northern Gaza out of service: WHO The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the Israeli attack on the Kamal Adwan Hospital put "the last major health facility" in northern besieged Gaza out of service, calling an end to "this horror." Initial reports indicate that some key departments were severe

December 27, 2024

Dec 26 2024 2 mins

Israel kills 50 Palestinians in Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital Israel has killed nearly 50 Palestinians in an overnight air strike on a building opposite the headquarters of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern besieged Gaza, including three medical staff and workers. Their bodies were stuck under the rubble of a building opposite Kamal Adwan Hospital in the Beit Lahia Project area af