The announcement came after Israel said it had received the names of hostages due to be released on Sunday. Under the terms of the agreement, the cease-fire will last six weeks. During this period ...

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners being held by Israel will also be released in exchange for the hostages. Biden said that by the 16th day of the deal, talks will begin about the second phase of ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced early Friday local time that Israel has finalized its ceasefire agreement with the militant group Hamas that will see the release of ...

The conflict was triggered by Hamas’s brazen terror attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023 that killed almost 1,200 people India on Thursday welcomed the ...

Israel was still holding off on Thursday afternoon from officially declaring that a ceasefire-hostage release deal announced a day earlier by mediators had been reached with Hamas, insisting that ...

Since 2021, when Hamas fired rockets at Israel to “retaliate” for Israeli actions it was unhappy with relating to the Temple Mount and east Jerusalem, Israel has experienced a growing ...

Israel and Hamas agreed to free dozens of hostages and pause the war in Gaza that’s killed tens of thousands of people in the last 15 months and caused turmoil across the Middle East. A ...

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A ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas is set to take effect on Sunday, January 19, after an agreement was announced on Wednesday to end Israel’s devastating 15-month assault ...

The moods must match. By this standard, the deal between Israel and Hamas is good but not great: Both groups are relishing what they are getting, and choking a bit on what they have given up.

Hamas is a Palestinian armed group and political movement in the Gaza Strip. On 7 October 2023 it attacked Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages. This triggered a ...

American hostages Sagui Dekel-Chen and Keith Siegel are alive and expected to be released in the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal, a senior administration official told NBC News.