The changes come as pressure mounts for Israel and Hamas to move into the second phase of the ceasefire plan that U.S.

(Reuters) -Israel has received the body of deceased hostage Meny Godard from Palestinian militants in Gaza via the Red Cross, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Thursday. Godard lived ...

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Israeli forensic examiners have identified the remains of a deceased Israeli hostage returned from Gaza as those of Dror Or, the prime minister’s office said on Wednesday.

The militant group took more than 250 hostages from Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, including 31 from Thailand. The remains of all ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Palestinian militant group Hamas has released the last surviving hostages it was holding in Gaza, in exchange for almost 2,000 Palestinian detainees and prisoners, under the ...

Hamas’s military wing has released the bodies of two more slain Israeli hostages Tuesday — as Vice President JD Vance warned it will take time to retrieve the remains of all of the fallen captives ...

The Biden administration helped broker two ceasefire and hostage-exchange deals between Israel and Hamas — one in November 2023 and one in January 2025. Hamas released 105 hostages in the November ...

US envoy cancels trip to Turkey, which had been primarily scheduled around meeting with Zelensky that didn't pan out; he had planned to discuss efforts to sustain Gaza truce with Hayya ...

An Egyptian team has entered Gaza to join in the search for the remains of 13 hostages whose bodies have still not been released following the ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. The ceasefire’s first ...