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The increasingly theatrical and threatening events have angered Israel and put a cease-fire deal at risk.

An Israeli hostage held for more than a year by Hamas in Gaza was released Thursday morning, marking the first of eight ...

Israeli women and an 80-year-old male hostage, along with 5 Thai nationals, were released in Gaza, but Israel delayed its ...

The cease-fire has held despite a dispute earlier this week over the sequence in which the hostages were released.

Hamas released eight more hostages in Gaza Thursday as part of an ongoing ceasefire agreement with Israel in exchange for ...

The expected release will keep up the momentum of the fragile ceasefire​ between Israel and the militant Hamas group that ...

RAMAT GAN, Israel (AP) — For more than 470 days, Eitan Gonen publicly pleaded with his daughter to stay alive while in Hamas ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet with him at the White House on ...

Hamas said it will release three Israeli hostages on Thursday, and a high-ranking American official visited Gaza for the ...

Eight of the remaining hostages set to be released by Hamas in the first phase of a ceasefire agreement with Israel are dead, ...

Some troops had been expected to withdraw to allow hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans to go home. But Israel said the ...