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The Israeli military has issued sweeping evacuation orders covering most of Rafah, indicating it could soon launch another major ground operation in the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has nominated a new domestic security chief, after he moved to fire the current one over a crisis of confidence that critics say was politically motivated.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have little to celebrate as they mark the normally festive Eid al-Fitr.
The Hamas militant group says it has accepted a new Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators Egypt and Qatar.
A federal judge in Massachusetts says a Tufts University doctoral student who was detained this week can’t be deported to Turkey without a court order.
Israel’s parliament has passed a key part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the judiciary.
The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of parts of Gaza City as it steps up its renewed offensive against Hamas.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israel’s military has struck the largest hospital in the territory's south, killing two people and wounding others.
Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl began his postgame NCAA Tournament news conference on Saturday night by advocating for the release of Edan Alexander, the last living American being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas.
The father of the last living American hostage being held by Hamas in Gaza is hoping that the Trump administration's negotiators can help bring his son home safely.
Israel’s renewed military offensive in the Gaza Strip threatens to be even deadlier and more destructive than the last, as it pursues wider aims with far fewer constraints.
Freed Israeli hostage Eli Sharabi has expressed his anger during an appearance at the U.N. Security Council for having to suffer for so long and worry every day about being killed.
Three hospitals in the Gaza Strip say at least 85 Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes on several homes across the war torn territory.
Israeli strikes have killed at least 85 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday.
Afnan al-Ghanam of Gaza had given birth to her first child during war, 13 months ago, while the family was still living in their home.
The mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, is backing off a proposal to terminate an independent theater's lease and financial support after it screened an Oscar-winning documentary about the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.
Israel says its troops retook part of a corridor that bisects Gaza, and its defense minister warned that attacks would intensify until Hamas frees dozens of hostages and gives up control of the territory.
Families whose relatives remain hostages in Gaza are terrified their loved ones might not return after Israel launched a wave of strikes on the territory.
The wave of Israeli strikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday was the culmination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to get out of the ceasefire with Hamas that he agreed to in January.
The relative calm of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has come to an abrupt end with Israel launching dozens of attacks on targets across the Gaza Strip.
Israel has launched a wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, saying it is hitting Hamas targets in its heaviest assault in the territory since a ceasefire took effect in January.
Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, striking dozens of Hamas targets in its heaviest assault in the territory since a ceasefire took effect in January.
The Justice Department has announced the creation of a task force to investigate Hamas for its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel as well as potential civil rights violations and acts of antisemitism by anyone supporting the militant group.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired or forced out a string of top officials since the deadly Hamas attack on Israel in 2023 that triggered the war in Gaza.
Hamas says it will only release an American-Israeli and the bodies of four other hostages if Israel implements their ceasefire agreement.
Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals who had died in captivity.
Hamas says it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual nationals who had died in captivity.
United Nations-backed human rights experts allege Israel has caused “disproportionate violence against women and children” during the war against Hamas in Gaza,.
Israeli fire has killed eight people in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours even as a fragile ceasefire with Hamas has largely held.
Israel says it will send a delegation to Qatar on Monday “in an effort to advance the negotiations” around the ceasefire in Gaza.
Some 90,000 Palestinians have prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security by Israeli forces.
Officials from USAID say the the Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. humanitarian agency have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups.
Hamas has brushed off President Donald Trump’s latest threat and reiterated that it will only free the remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
President Donald Trump has issued what he calls a “last warning” to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza.
White House press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that U.S. officials have had “ongoing talks and discussions” with Hamas officials, as the ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas hangs in the balance.
Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive as they try to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable.
Arab leaders have endorsed Egypt's postwar plan for the Gaza Strip that would allow its roughly 2 million Palestinians to remain in the territory.
A summit of Arab leaders in Cairo have approved Egypt’s plan to rebuild Gaza without expelling the Palestinians.
Israel has introduced what it said was a new U.S. ceasefire plan and is trying to force Hamas to accept it by imposing a siege on the Gaza Strip.
Israel faces sharp criticism after barring the entry of all food and other supplies into Gaza.
Israel’s government says it supports a proposal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza through Ramadan and Passover, though Hamas has insisted on negotiating the truce’s second phase instead.
The Trump administration has approved a major nearly $3 billion arms sale to Israel, bypassing a normal congressional review to provide the country with more of the 2,000-pound bombs that it has used in the war against Hamas in Gaza.
Negotiations on the second phase of the ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas are taking place in Cairo.
Mourners buried the remains of one of the last hostages released in the first phase of the ceasefire between Hamas militants and Israel.
An investigation by Israel's 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 intentions and underestimated its capabilities.
Israel’s refusal to withdraw from a narrow strip of desert on Gaza's border with Egypt, as called for in the ceasefire with Hamas, could threaten the truce.
Tens of thousands of Israelis have lined highways holding flags, orange balloons and signs saying “forgive us” in an outpouring of grief as the bodies of a mother and her two small sons who were killed in captivity in the Gaza Strip were taken for burial.
Hamas has handed over the bodies of four hostages in exchange for Israel’s release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, days before the first phase of their ceasefire will end.
An Israeli security official says Hamas has handed to the Red Cross the bodies of four Israelis who were held hostage in Gaza.
The families of hostages still in Gaza are struggling to maintain hope they'll see their loved ones soon as uncertainty swirls over the future of the fragile ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
Israeli and Hamas officials say they have reached an agreement to exchange the bodies of dead hostages for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Palestinian medics say at least six infants have died from hypothermia in the last two weeks in the Gaza Strip.
A trial has begun in Germany for four alleged Hamas members suspected of organizing weapons caches across Europe.
Israeli and Hamas officials say they have reached an agreement to exchange the bodies of dead hostages for the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Palestinians who returned to their homes in northern Gaza after the ceasefire began on Jan. 19 are still struggling to find shelter, food, water and other necessities.
The first phase of the ceasefire that paused 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas militants is set to end on Saturday.
Israel says the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners is delayed “until the release of the next hostages has been assured, and without the humiliating ceremonies” at handovers of Israeli captives in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed revenge for what he described as a “cruel and malicious violation” of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
Hamas has released the names of six living Israeli hostages who the militants plan to release from Gaza this weekend under the terms of the ceasefire deal.
Israeli police have reported a series of explosions on three buses in central Israel in what they said appeared to be a militant attack.
Hamas has released four bodies they said were Israeli hostages, including two young children who were long feared dead and have symbolized the nation’s agony following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
The bodies of the youngest Israelis held hostage by the militant Hamas group have been returned to Israel, dashing the hopes of a nation hoping for a happier ending.
The Israeli military says the remains of two child hostages have been identified but another body released by Hamas was not the boys’ mother.
An Israeli official says the bodies of the youngest and one of the oldest captives seized by Hamas during the attack that ignited the war in Gaza are expected to be returned on Thursday.
A senior Hamas leader says the militant group will release six living Israeli hostages on Saturday and the bodies of four others on Thursday.
Hamas says it will release six living Israeli hostages instead of three on Saturday, as well as the bodies of four others on Thursday.
Residents of a south Lebanon town are waiting to rebuild and fix their damaged homes as Israel is supposed to end its military presence north of its border under a U.S.-brokered deal.
Egypt is developing a plan to rebuild Gaza without forcing Palestinians out of the strip in a counter to President Donald Trump’s proposal to depopulate the territory so the U.S. can take it over.
Israelis have marked 500 days of war in Gaza with protests demanding further progress on a ceasefire so all remaining hostages can be returned.
Israel’s military says its forces will remain in five strategic locations in southern Lebanon after Tuesday’s deadline for their withdrawal under a ceasefire with the Hezbollah militant group.
Israel and Hamas have completed their sixth exchange of hostages and prisoners after their ceasefire survived its latest crisis.
Israel and Hamas have completed the sixth exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners with just over two weeks remaining in the initial phase of their fragile Gaza ceasefire.
Hamas named three more Israeli hostages it will release in a weekend trade for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, the latest sign that the shaky Gaza ceasefire deal appears to be holding in spite of a tense dispute that has threatened to renew fighting.
The families of Israeli hostages still held by the Hamas militant group have welcomed the “joyous news” that three men, all taken from the same kibbutz on Oct. 7, 2023, are expected to be freed on Saturday.
Israel’s defense minister says “all hell will break loose” if Hamas does not release three hostages as planned this weekend.
Three weeks into the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the number of tents and temporary homes entering Gaza risks falling short of the goals set for the deal’s first phase.
Egyptian and Qatari mediators are working to salvage the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, which risks being derailed because of a dispute between the two sides.
Families of the hostages in Gaza are struggling to maintain hope as the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas seems increasingly at risk of falling apart.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to withdraw from the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and resume its war against Hamas if the militant group does not go ahead with the next scheduled release of hostages this weekend.
Hamas’ threat to delay the next planned release of Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip has jolted a fragile ceasefire that’s seen as having the potential to wind down the war.
Hamas says it will delay the further release of hostages in the Gaza Strip after accusing Israel of violating a fragile ceasefire that now faces its most serious crisis since it began three weeks ago.
President Donald Trump says that a precarious ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas should be canceled if Hamas doesn’t release all the remaining hostages it is holding in Gaza by midday on Saturday — though he also acknowledged that such a decision would be up to Israel.
The United Nations humanitarian chief says famine has been mostly averted in Gaza as a surge of aid enters the territory during a fragile ceasefire, but he warns the threat could return quickly if the truce collapses.
