People gathered in Paris Saturday in support of the hostages held in Gaza, describing being torn between hope and fear hours before a truce set to allow their release takes effect.

PARIS - When Hamas militants staged the worst-ever attack on Israel on Oct 7, 2023, they took 251 hostages into the Gaza Strip. Some were already dead. On Jan 15, mediators announced that Israel ...

President Joe Biden and his top diplomats, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, had sought closure during his term.

Global peacemakers are praying the Israel-Hamas ceasefire will hold "so we do not return to the daily horror."

Blinken said that even if the Biden administration's plans for a ceasefire and hostage deal don't come to fruition before Trump's inauguration.

French Jewish leaders joined politicians, rights campaigners and some 200 people in eastern Paris on Thursday to mark 10 years since four people were killed in a terrorist attack at a kosher supermarket.

Hundreds of Paris police officers were deployed on Thursday for a basketball match classified as "high-risk" due to the participation of an Israeli team.On Wednesday, Paris police had indicated that Thursday's match was "likely to constitute a symbolic target for acts of a terrorist nature" in a "current context of very high threat".

A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip has taken effect following an almost three-hour delay after Hamas was late to name the three hostage it plans to release