MADRID, January 20, 2025 (WAFA) – Spain said that the efforts of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), of which Spain is a part, are indispensable with regard to the future of the Gaza Strip.

Madrid: Chairperson of National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) H E Maryam bint Abdullah Al Attiyah, who is also President of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI), held a meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of the Kingdom of Spain, H E Jose Manuel Albares in Madrid.

Waiting for news this week of whether a ceasefire deal between Hamas and the Israeli government must have been agonising for the people of Gaza and for the families of hostages taken in the attack of October 7. All week the talk was that a deal was in the very final stages of negotiation. It would be soon, we were told.

HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani discussed bilateral relations and international developments,

Israeli airstrikes in southern Gaza killed at least 17 people late Tuesday, nearly all of them women or children, the territory’s Health Ministry and hospital officials said.

Even before the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was fully in place, Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip began to return to the remains of the homes they had evacuated during the 15-month war.

The Israel-Hamas war has devastated the Gaza Strip. Satellite photos offer some sense of the destruction in the territory.

Hundreds of truck drivers erupted in cheers when, midway through the morning of this Sunday, they received the order to get into their trucks and cross the Rafah border crossing to transport humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip through the Al Auya and Kerem Shalom crossings.

A visual guide to how much has changed in the Gaza Strip since Israel began its military response to Hamas's attacks on 7 October.

Demonstrators in Madrid protested the arrival of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team ahead of their Euroleague game against Real Madrid.

The ceasefire between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip will enter into force on Sunday, January 19, announced Wednesday the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Qatar, Mohamed bin Abderrahman.