Hours after a delay triggered by a row over aid supplies,17 freed hostages have arrived in Israel in the second scheduled release from Gaza and Israel has released a further 39 Palestinian prisoners.
Israelis in other places used to chide Tel Avivians,with their hip boutiques and cafes,for living in a bubble of naive tranquillity. That bubble has now exploded.
Matthew Knott and Kate Geraghty visit Jerusalem where some ultra-Orthodox Jews have rushed to enlist in the army following Hamas’ massacres of October 7,but many are holding out.
Matthew Knott and Kate Geraghty report from the West Bank,where people who live beside each other are driven apart by competing historical narratives and modern grievances.
A third generation shop owner says he hasn’t sold anything for weeks in the near deserted Souq in the old city in Hebron.
Palestinian youths clash with the Israeli military near the Jalazone refugee camp in al-Bireh,Ramallah,West Bank.
Demonstrators,some holding Hamas flags,protest the Israeli bombing of Gaza following Friday prayers through the streets of central Ramallah,West Bank.
The Palestinian workers want to tell their stories,but also ask how much people on the other side of the world really know about the horror in Gaza.
Fears of a wider conflict are not shared by everyone. Matthew Knott and Kate Geraghty visit communities on the Israel-Lebanon border where some want a war.
It took Netanyahu eight days to meet with the furious families of the kidnapped – so they hired their own negotiation experts.
BE’ER SHEVA,ISRAEL| As we make our way around southern Israel,locals recount the horrors of those killed and tales of survival about those who shouldn’t be alive,but are.