A senior Hamas official told the Al Jazeera news network that "the atmosphere of optimism, as if there was a rapprochement for a prisoner exchange agreement, does not reflect reality." According to him, Prime Minister
Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen clashed throughout the Gaza Strip over the weekend, both sides said on Sunday, as mediating countries sought common ground for a possible ceasefire that would release hostages held by Hamas.
The protracted, often bloody Israeli-Palestinian conflict exploded into a hot war on Oct. 7, 2023, when the militant Palestinian group Hamas launched a deadly attack on Israel and Israel retaliated by bombarding the Gaza Strip.
A former Hamas hostage who was released after weeks in captivity during a temporary pause in fighting last year accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “forgetting” those in Gaza — as he shifts his
Israel's war cabinet convened Saturday after a delegation returned from talks in Paris on a hostage release and ceasefire deal in the war against Hamas. National security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said before the telephone meeting
The United Nations human rights chief said that perpetrators of gross human rights violations in the conflict between Israel and Hamas must be held accountable. "The entrenched impunity that OHCHR (the U.N. rights agency) has
Gaza truce talks were underway in Paris on Friday, in what appears to be the most serious push for weeks to halt the fighting in the battered Palestinian enclave and see Israeli and foreign hostages
More than 100 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip over a 24-hour period, the Health Ministry in the Hamas-run territory said Friday. Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh held talks with Egyptian
Stalled negotiations for a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of hostages picked up steam late Thursday when the Israeli War Cabinet agreed to send a delegation to Paris for weekend talks, Israeli media reported.
Far-right Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday said that he will advance plans for the construction of new settlements in the West Bank following an attack near Jerusalem earlier in the day, the Times of
