Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has been walking a tightrope since voting against the hostage deal in the fateful ...

Israel had delayed their release in protest against the way the seven hostages freed by Hamas were treated as they were ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a potentially disastrous showdown within the next month that could shake his ...

Hamas confirmed for the first time on Thursday that Israeli killed the head of its military wing, Mohammed Deif, in an airstrike last year. Deif was one of the alleged ...

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The release of more than 100 Palestinian prisoners as laid out in the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal had been in doubt after crowds in southern Gaza surrounded hostages who were being freed.

Hamas-led militants freed eight hostages on Thursday as part of the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but the chaotic handover of ...

Steve Witkoff, the U.S.’s new Middle East envoy, has joined Israelis in Tel Aviv who have gathered to watch the hostage ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed 15 months ago that Israel would achieve “total victory” in the war in Gaza — by ...