Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said today that Israeli troops would resume “intense fighting” in Gaza, ending a ...

After winning the 2024 election, he dispatched his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, to the region to help the Biden administration get the Israel-Hamas cease-fire and hostage-release deal over ...

WASHINGTON — Even before the first phase is completed, the fragile cease-fire agreement that has paused 15 months of war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas faces increasingly long odds of lasting ...

DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip — A cease-fire between Hamas and Israel took effect Sunday, silencing the guns over Gaza and renewing hopes of a possible end to a 15-month conflict that has killed ...

The cease-fire between Hamas and Israel is expected to go into effect on Sunday at 8:30 a.m. local time, according to Qatar’s foreign ministry. Qatar’s foreign minister Majid al-Ansari urged ...

President-elect Donald Trump was quick to take credit for the cease-fire struck Wednesday between Israel and Hamas — and progressive critics of the Biden administration’s approach to the ...

The cease-fire would expire six weeks later, unless Phase 2 of the agreement kicks in. By design, the goal was to send a unified message that the fighting must end and the hostages held by Hamas ...

A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is a welcome reprieve from the catastrophe we have seen in the Middle East. It’s also a tragic reminder of the lives lost and the ones that the fighting has ...

The “last-minute crisis” that held up the Israel-Hamas cease-fire and hostage deal on Thursday has been resolved, with the proposal expected to go into effect on Sunday, officials said.

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

TEL AVIV — Three hostages, including one who survived the brutal Nova music festival massacre during the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, have been freed after the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal went into ...

The broad terms of the cease-fire deal that Israel and Hamas finally agreed to Wednesday after a year of fruitless negotiations aren’t substantially different from those that were available to ...