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Hamas has begun a third round of freeing hostages in Gaza Thursday as part of an ongoing ceasefire agreement with Israel in ...

The truce is aimed at winding down the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and Hamas, whose Oct. 7, ...

President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy was in Israel on Wednesday to meet with senior officials and tour Israeli military ...

Massive crowds streamed into the most heavily destroyed part on Monday in accordance with a fragile ceasefire.

Hamas began the process of freeing three more Israeli hostages and five Thai captives. Israel was expected to release another ...

Thursday's exchange is the third since the start of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip that has held for over a week.

The agreement is set to halt a 15-month-old war between Israel and Hamas that has decimated the Strip, killed nearly 47,000 ...

Qatar, which mediated the agreement, said the cease-fire deal was set to begin at 8:30 a.m. local time on Sunday.

The Palestinian group Hamas set free a female Israeli soldier in Gaza on Thursday under a ceasefire agreement with Israel.

Israel says troops fired on masked gunmen in Gaza, but it remains committed to the ceasefire as it continues a new offensive in the West Bank.

The Biden administration called for a final push before the president leaves office, with many seeing the Trump inauguration ...