A senior Hamas official told the Associated Press that long-delayed talks over the ceasefire’s second phase would need to ...

AL-QARARA, Gaza Strip — With just five minutes on the ground, Jordanian air force crew members rush to unload cardboard boxes from the back of a Black Hawk helicopter on the tarmac. In the ...

JERUSALEM — Hamas handed over the remains of another four hostages early Thursday and Israel released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. It was the ...

Trump warned Hamas of "hell to pay" if hostages aren’t freed. The crisis in Gaza began with Hamas’s attack on Israel in 2023.

All three men were seized in Kibbutz Nir Oz, one of the communities around the Gaza Strip that was overrun by Hamas gunmen on October 7, 2023. Iair Horn's brother Eitan was taken at the same time ...

The six-week ceasefire in Gaza expired Saturday, with no talks underway for the second phase, Hamas said, accusing Israel of "evading the commitment to end the war and withdraw completely from Gaza.

Over the initial six-week phase, Gaza militants freed 25 living hostages and returned the bodies of eight others to Israel, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

Earlier in the week, President Trump demanded that all of the dozens of hostages still held in Gaza be released by midday on Feb. 15 or “all hell is going to break out.” Hamas’s announcement ...