Ireland refuse handshake with Israel and don armbands in Nations League tie
Republic of Ireland football players again wear black armbands and refuse handshakes with Israel in UEFA Nations League.

Republic of Ireland football players again wear black armbands and refuse handshakes with Israel in UEFA Nations League.

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Israeli forces detain and assault journalists in Jabal Qamass area in Beita, south of Nablus.

Displaced Palestinians gathered to watch a friendly football match in Gaza’s Khan Younis.

An Israeli air attack on a residential apartment in Gaza City has killed at least five Palestinians.
Ahead of first Palestinian national elections in 20 years, people in Gaza hope to rebuild after Israeli destruction.

Reports are building that Israel rejected a Hamas offer to release all civilian hostages taken on October 7, 2023.
The WHO’s representative in Palestine calls on Israeli authorities to ‘release the pressure on medical supplies’.
Multiple Israeli attacks leave a total of eight people dead across the Gaza Strip.
Retired General Nitzan Alon says more captives could have returned alive and a deal was possible ‘maybe a year earlier’.

Israeli Gen. Nitzan Alon told a Washington Institute forum that all Gaza captives could’ve been freed a year earlier.