WASHINGTON, June 2 — United States President Joe Biden on Friday laid out what he called a three-phase Israeli proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza in return for the release of Israeli hostages, saying “it’s time for this war to end”, winning a positive initial reaction from Hamas.

CAIRO, May 27 — Israeli air strikes killed at least 35 Palestinians and wounded dozens in an area in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah designated for the displaced, Palestinian health and civil emergency service officials said.

CAIRO, May 24 — Israeli forces killed at least 60 Palestinians in aerial and ground bombardments across the Gaza Strip on Thursday and battled in close combat with Hamas-led militants in areas of the southern city of Rafah, health officials and Hamas media said.

TOKYO, May 23 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today reiterated that his meeting with Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Khalid Meshaal in Qatar last week was to persuade them for a peaceful solution to the Gaza conflict.

THE HAGUE, May 21 — The International Criminal Court's prosecutor said on Monday he had requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence chief and three Hamas leaders over alleged war crimes.

PUTRAJAYA, May 16 — Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil hopes the incident involving social media platform operator Meta Platforms Inc, which removed a news report of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's meeting with Hamas' leader on its platform, will not be repeated in the future.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 16 — Meta Platforms has restored Facebook posts by Malaysian media covering Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's meeting this week with a Hamas leader, saying they were removed in error.

PUTRAJAYA, May 15 — The government has requested an explanation from Meta Platforms Inc regarding its removal of news reports about Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's meeting with Hamas’ top leadership on several local media platforms.

DOHA, May 15 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has admitted his meeting with a top Hamas leader yesterday might cause anxiety among Malaysia’s friends, especially in the West.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 14 — Malaysia is firm in its stand that Israel stop the atrocities against Palestinians, release all Palestinian prisoners and agree to a peace plan, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

NUR SHAMS, April 21 — Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank yesterday, while an ambulance driver was killed as he went to pick up wounded from a separate attack by violent Jewish settlers, said the Palestinian authorities.

GAZA CITY, April 16 — The Palestinian group Hamas has insisted it will not agree to the release of any hostages without the Israeli army's complete withdrawal from Gaza and the return of displaced Palestinians to their homes across the enclave.

JERUSALEM/DUBAI, April 14 — Iran launched a swarm of explosive drones and fired missiles at Israel late yesterday in its first-ever direct attack on Israeli territory, risking a major escalation as the United States (US) pledged "ironclad" backing for Israel.

CAIRO, April 11 — Three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip yesterday, as confirmed by the group and Haniyeh's family.

GAZA CITY, April 8 — A delegation from the Palestinian group Hamas held discussions on Sunday with the head of Egyptian intelligence in Cairo on efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and a hostage swap deal with Israel.

CAIRO, April 7 — A Hamas delegation headed by the group’s deputy chief in Gaza, Khalil Al-Hayya, will go to Cairo on April 7 for Gaza ceasefire talks, in response to an invitation extended by Egyptian mediators, the group said in a statement on Saturday.

CAIRO, April 4 — Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said on Wednesday that his Palestinian Islamist movement at war with Israel was sticking to its conditions for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, including an Israeli military withdrawal.

GENEVA, April 2 — Israel's destruction of Gaza's biggest hospital in a raid over the past two weeks has ripped the heart out of the enclave's healthcare system, said the World Health Organisation (WHO) today.

ANKARA, March 26 — Hamas on Monday welcomed a United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Anadolu Agency reported.

TEHRAN, March 17 — A senior Hamas official has underscored that the Palestinian resistance movement’s proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is pragmatic and applicable, Iranian News Agency (IRNA) reported.