Syrians are voting indirectly, and President Ahmed al-Shara is appointing a third of the lawmakers. Still, some see this as a step forward after decades of dictatorship.
Hamas said it would release all Israeli hostages but wants to negotiate elements of President Trump’s peace plan for Gaza. Adam Rasgon, a reporter for The New York Times in Jerusalem, explains where negotiations stand.
Interviews in Gaza suggest wide support for a proposal that calls for an immediate end to a war that has brought immense civilian suffering.
The vessels are part of a flotilla carrying activists, including Greta Thunberg, who are trying to deliver humanitarian goods and protest Israel’s war.
The boats were part of a flotilla, carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists, that was organized to break Israel’s blockade and protest the war.
The Israeli government said it had detained activists who were trying to take humanitarian aid to the blockaded enclave.
It would end the war and secure the release of all hostages. Hamas would give up its arms and its power, while a transitional government is set up. Hamas has not agreed and the terms will be hard for it to swallow.
In President Trump’s plan, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got almost everything he hoped for in the end, despite mounting international isolation.
The deportation flight is one of the clearest signals yet of the Trump administration’s determination to expel migrants, even to places with harsh human rights conditions.
“If both sides agree to this proposal, the war will immediately end,” the White House proposal says.