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The release of more than 100 Palestinian prisoners as laid out in the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal had been in doubt after crowds in southern Gaza surrounded hostages who were being freed.

Qudra, her father and her brother were killed by shrapnel from an Israeli airstrike shortly after the ceasefire was supposed ...

Fighting claimed lives until the final moments before the truce between Israel and Hamas took effect. For some, an unexpected ...