A crowd surrounds Red Cross cars as they arrive at the site for the handover of Thai and Israeli hostages in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, January 30, 2025
HAMAS-LED resistance fighters freed eight hostages today as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
In return, the Israelis began releasing 110 Palestinian prisoners.
But the handover of some of the captives through a crowd of thousands by masked fighters drew an angry protest from Israel which nearly scuppered the release of the Palestinian prisoners agreed as part of the ceasefire deal.
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors
