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.

Now, after spending two birthdays in Gaza, Ofer is expected to return to Israel on Saturday as part of the first phase of a new hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Ofer’s children ...

Hamas released Gadi Moses, Arbel Yehoud, and Agam Berger. Five Thai citizens kidnapped from agricultural communities in southern Israel were also released. Photo: Bashar Taleb/Agence France-Presse ...

Like all of the 90 Palestinian women and children released in the first hostage exchange between Israel and Hamas in January, she was labeled as a “terrorist” by the Israel Prison Service.

Jan. 30 (UPI) --A further two Israeli and five Thai nationals freed by Hamas after being held hostage for 482 days crossed from Gaza into Israel on Thursday afternoon, four hours after 20-year-old ...

KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip — Hamas militants on Saturday freed three men, including an American Israeli, held hostage for more than a year in the Gaza Strip, and Israel released 183 Palestinian ...

Netanyahu is scheduled to depart Israel on Sunday for Washington, where he is to meet next week with Trump at the White House to discuss Gaza and the Israeli hostages held there. During his ...

He has said Israel is still committed to victory over Hamas and the return of all the hostages captured in the militants’ Oct. 7, 2023, cross-border attack that triggered the war. Three hostages ...

"Agam, Arbel, Gadi - welcome home! The entire State of Israel embraces you, and so do my wife Sarah and I," Netanyahu began. He also stated that "this release was achieved primarily due to our ...

Tel Aviv — Three more Israeli hostages — two females and an 80-year-old man — were released in Gaza Thursday as the third hostages-for-prisoners swap agreed to by Israel and Hamas got ...

Israel's ban on the main UN agency for Palestinian refugees has come into force, three months after the country's parliament voted it through. The highly controversial ban has seen international ...

The condition is highly treatable – but not in Gaza, where healthcare institutions and supplies have been decimated by Israel’s yearslong war in the Palestinian enclave. Earlier this month ...