LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Palestinian president has said he strongly rejects President Donald Trump’s proposal for the US to take over Gaza and resettle the 2.1 million Palestinians living there. “We will not allow the rights of our people… to be infringed on,” Mahmoud Abbas stressed, warning that Gaza was “an integral part of the…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Palestinians burst into celebration across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday at news of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, with some shedding years of joy and others whistling, clapping and chanting “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest). “I am happy, yes, I am crying, but those are tears of joy,” said Ghada, a…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to shut down news network Al Jazeera following the passage Monday of a sweeping law allowing the government to ban foreign networks perceived as posing a threat to national security. Netanyahu said he intended “to act immediately in accordance with the new law” to stop…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected two key demands Hamas has made during indirect cease-fire talks, saying Israel will not withdraw from the Gaza Strip or release thousands of jailed militants. During an event Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, Netanyahu again vowed that the war would not end without Israel’s…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Israeli hostages Itay Svirsky and Yossi Sharabi, among more than 240 people kidnapped Oct. 7, were murdered by Hamas and their bodies are being held by the militant group in Gaza, the Kibbutz Be’eri said. Earlier this week Hamas released videos showing Sharabi, 53, Svirsky, 38, and Noa Argamani, 26, urging Prime…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of demonstrators descended onto the National Mall in the nation’s capital on Tuesday to express their support for Israel amid its war on Hamas, and to condemn antisemitism that has spiked amid the conflict. D.C. officials ramped up security ahead of the rally, with multiple reports saying that up to 100,000…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Desperate Palestinians have begun attacking Hamas security forces as tensions grow in Gaza over chronic shortages of food, water and medicine. In rare acts of defiance, Gazans hurled rocks at Hamas police who tried to jump a queue for water, and openly insulted Hamas officials, witnesses said. The clashes suggest that Hamas’s…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1TS (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed back on activists demanding a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, saying such an agreement would be a “gift” for the terrorist government. The former presidential candidate made the remarks during the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy’s 30th anniversary event on Thursday. “People…