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KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas freed eight hostages on Thursday as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but the ...

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

Hamas has begun a third round of freeing hostages in Gaza Thursday as part of an ongoing ceasefire agreement with Israel in ...

Israeli authorities announced Wednesday that they had arrested 12 Palestinians in East Jerusalem for celebrating the release ...

Latest news and live updates on the Gaza ceasefire deal as four female hostages are set to be released. The hostages are all ...

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

Delayed by a dispute over the release of a specific hostage, an agreement has been reached to allow Palestinians to return to ...

In the ceasefire’s first phase, Israel and Hamas have agreed that 33 Israeli hostages in Gaza will be released in exchange ...