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Trump sent Witkoff to ensure the ceasefire agreement advances to the second phase, which will require hashing out more thorny ...

Kidnapped Israeli soldier Agam Berger was released by Hamas, the first of three hostages due to be freed in Gaza on Thursday ...

Hamas has released Israeli soldier Agam Berger to the Red Cross in Gaza, marking the first of eight hostages set to be freed ...

Militants from Hamas and allied groups Islamic Jihad and Popular Resistance Committees arrived at a site in Khan Younis in ...

The truce is aimed at winding down the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and Hamas, whose Oct. 7, ...

Among those to be freed is Arbel Yehoud, whose release was at the center of a dispute that threatened to unravel the fragile ...

The Kremlin on Thursday expressed its condolences to the families of Russian citizens who lost their lives in the American ...

Hamas on Thursday is expected to free three Israeli hostages and five Thai hostages in exchange for Israel’s release of 110 Palestinian prisoners.

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

The expected release is part of a fragile ceasefire between the militant group and Israel, which began earlier this month and ...

Long lines of Palestinians -- some kneeling to kiss the soil as they stepped into the northern part of the strip -- were ...