JERUSALEM: More than 16 months after they were seized by militants during Hamas' Oct 7, 2023 attack on Israel, uncertainty hangs over the fate of 24 people held in Gaza and presumed to be alive. Negot ...

For months, even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted he wanted to bring the hostages home from Gaza, he resisted signing a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Sustained pressure from ...

Mourners in Israel are burying the remains of one of the last hostages released in the first phase of the ceasefire between ...

Mourners are burying the remains of one of the last hostages released in the first phase of the ceasefire between Hamas militants and Israel ...

Negotiations to extend a fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas were underway Friday in Cairo, after Israeli and Qatari ...

The Israeli military has determined that Hamas was able to carry out the deadliest attack in Israeli history on Oct. 7, 2023, because the much more powerful Israeli army misjudged the militant group’s ...

The Palestinian Authority wants to prove it can handle security in Gaza, even if it means working in parallel with a ...

Negotiations between Israel and Hamas on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire began Thursday in the Egyptian capital, Egypt ...

President Donald Trump signed executive orders in January targeting foreigners who espoused hateful ideology and antisemitism ...

Israeli tanks have moved into the occupied West Bank for the first time in decades in what Palestinian authorities call a “dangerous escalation.” ...

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It has the feeling of a ghastly ending, one pushed along by desperation and eagerness.  First, levelling Gaza and turning it ...