Middle East live: Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be released as Trump calls for ‘hard stance’ on Gaza
Three Israeli hostages and 369 Palestinian prisoners to be freed as US president says he prefers tough approach but ‘I can’t tell you what Israel is going to do’Latest Israeli hostages to be freed named amid uncertainty over truceElsewhere in the region, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has vowed to punish the protesters who attacked a UN peacekeeping convoy a day earlier that wounded the force’s outgoing deputy commander AFP reports:Aoun “condemned the attack... and emphasised that the attackers will receive their punishment”, a statement from the presidency said on X.“Security forces will not be lenient with any party that tries to upset stability and civil peace,” it added. Continue reading...

Three Israeli hostages and 369 Palestinian prisoners to be freed as US president says he prefers tough approach but ‘I can’t tell you what Israel is going to do’
Elsewhere in the region, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has vowed to punish the protesters who attacked a UN peacekeeping convoy a day earlier that wounded the force’s outgoing deputy commander AFP reports:
Aoun “condemned the attack... and emphasised that the attackers will receive their punishment”, a statement from the presidency said on X.
“Security forces will not be lenient with any party that tries to upset stability and civil peace,” it added. Continue reading...