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Thursday’s prisoner-for-hostage swap marked the third round of exchanges as a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas entered its second week.

Israel on Thursday formally banned the main United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees from operating on its ...

Patriot missiles are included in a U.S.-facilitated transfer approved in September 2024, according to media reports published on ...

Over six weeks, Hamas is to free 33 Israeli hostages — roughly one third of those held– in exchange for nearly 2,000 ...

In the ceasefire’s first phase, Israel and Hamas have agreed that 33 Israeli hostages in Gaza will be released in exchange ...

Three Israelis and five Thai nationals were freed earlier in what PM Benjamin Netanyahu called "shocking scenes".

Hamas-led militants released eight hostages on Thursday after more than 15 months in captivity, including an Israeli soldier, ...

Hamas is set to free three more Israeli hostages as well as five Thai captives on Thursday, and Israel is to release another ...

In her third feature, which premiered at Sundance, the 'Amreeka' director tells a multigenerational story of a family expelled from Jaffa in 1948.

After relying on the Washington Times for years for credible reporting from the Middle East, I was horrified to read “Israel incursions, Turkey aggression snarl post-Assad strategy for U.S.,” Page 1, ...

Israeli leaders delayed the release of more than hundred Palestinians as agreed over concerns with how the eight Israeli hostages were released.