It was Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, when Steve Witkoff, President-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, sat down with ...

Under the deal, approved by Israel’s government, 33 Israeli hostages will be exchanged for more than 730 Palestinian ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a “last minute crisis” with Hamas was holding up Israeli approval of a long-awaited ...

Rifts with Hamas and a far-right minister’s threat to resign complicated progress toward the Israeli cabinet’s vote on the ...

President Joe Biden and his top diplomats, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, had sought closure during his term.

After 15 months of bitter conflict on the Gaza Strip, a ceasefire deal has been agreed which promises an end to the fighting ...

A year after Israel vowed to wipe Hamas ‘off the face of the earth’ following the 7 October attack into Israel the conflict ...

The Israeli cabinet still has to ratify the deal, and some details remained unresolved. President Biden said hostages were to ...

High-level talks on the ceasefire in Gaza have gained momentum with some reporting that Israel and Hamas would sign off on it ...

Militants in Gaza are recruiting new fighters under the leadership of Yahya Sinwar’s younger brother, Mohammed Sinwar, known ...

Israel estimates that nearly half of the militants in Gaza are well-organized, with forces spread out across the north and ...