Israel has formally banned the main United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees from operating on its territory ...

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Eight more hostages were freed by Hamas-led militants on Thursday in a sometimes chaotic process that briefly delayed the ...

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

On Thursday, laws passed by Israel in October come into effect banning the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, known as UNRWA, ...

Dozens of the prisoners, who were freed on Saturday as part of a cease-fire and hostage deal, had been serving life sentences ...

Crowds of cheering Palestinians greeted prisoners released by Israel as they arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah ...

Hamas freed three Israelis and five Thai nationals in exchange for more than 100 Palestinians. But the militant group struggled to control crowds, prompting a delay.

The prisoners released were all men, ranging in age from 15 to 69, with nearly two dozen serving life sentences for more ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the sight of their chaotic handover was shocking and threatened death to anyone hurting hostages ...

After the chaotic handover in southern Gaza, Zivan Frieden, a spokesman for Israel’s prisons authority, said in a statement ...

The truce allowed Palestinians to return to bombed-out neighborhoods to begin rebuilding their lives, while relief trucks ...